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"Public website". WMO. Archived from the original on 28 November 2023. "Severe World Weather website". WMO. Official website (as of October 2018, this functions as a WMO Extranet for the WMO Community as an interim solution until a new WMO Community website can be launched) "International List of Selected, Supplementary and Auxiliary Ships".
As a result of the poor communications between countries following the Chernobyl disaster in the Spring of 1986, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) was requested by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and other international organizations to arrange for early warning messages about nuclear accidents to be transmitted over the Global Telecommunications System (GTS). [1]
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), an organization of the United Nations, was created on 23 March 1950 to replace the International Meteorological Organization. It began operations in 1951 to coordinate member nation in the fields of meteorology, operational hydrology, and Earth sciences for the security of their population. The first ...
The International Meteorological Organization (IMO; 1873–1951) was the first organization formed with the purpose of exchanging weather information among the countries of the world.
The primary observing systems contributing to the GCOS are the WMO Integrated Global Observing System (WIGOS), [1] the Global Cryosphere Watch (GCW), [2] and the World Hydrological Cycle Observing System (WHYCOS), [3] and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission-led Global Ocean Observing System . A number of other domain-based and cross ...
The Global Telecommunication System (GTS) is a secured communication network enabling real-time exchange of meteorological data from weather stations, satellites and numerical weather prediction centres, providing critical meteorological forecasting, warnings, and alerts.
A "one-stop" website for the public to access weather information was launched in 2015, [8] and a similar mobile phone application in 2016. [9] The WMO opened a regional office in Singapore – hosted by MSS and colocated with the CCRS – in 2017, with the intention of bettering regional coordination on natural disasters. [10]
The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) is an international programme that helps to coordinate global climate research. [1] The WCRP was established in 1980, under the joint sponsorship of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the International Council for Science (ICSU), and has also been sponsored by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO since 1993.