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Is the Ozone Layer on the Mend? Highlights from the most recent WMO/UNEP Ozone Assessment
Environment, Observations, Polar, Greenhouse gases, Space
Bulletin nº Vol 64 (1) - 2015
Theme: Environmental challenges
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Publish Date: 2 March 2015
The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, signed in 1987, has been successful in that the amount of chlorofluorocarbons is now slowly diminishing. A common misunderstanding, however, is the belief that the ozone problem has been solved and the ozone layer is back to its original state.

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Is the Ozone Layer on the Mend?
Environment, Space, Forecast, Observations, Greenhouse gases, Clouds
Bulletin nº Vol 64 (1) - 2015
Theme: Environmental challenges
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Publish Date: 2 March 2015
By WMO Secretariat 1 The 2014 Ozone Assessment provides the latest update of the current state of the ozone layer and makes predictions on when the ozone layer will return...
Preparing the Use of New Generation Geostationary Meteorological Satellites
Weather, Observations, Satellite, Space, Data exchange, Forecast, Environment, Agriculture and food security, Disaster risk reduction, Water, Public health
Bulletin nº Vol 63 (2) - 2014
Theme: Observations
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Publish Date: 3 November 2014
Seven new generation geostationary satellites will be launched into positions over the equator within the next five years. These launches will drastically change the Space Component of the WMO Integrated Global Observing System (WIGOS) and National Meteorological and Hydrological Services are challenged to prepare for the advanced capabilities the satellites will offer. The imager capabilities, sampling rate, spectral resolution and spectral channels, of this new generation of satellites will drastically increase data rates – by an order of up to 100. All National Meteorological Hydrological...