Leaders of the world meteorological community and Chinese Authorities today inaugurated MeteoWorld at Shanghai - the first-ever meteorological pavilion in the 159-year history of World Expo

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WMO expressed condolences at the passing away on 26 April of Professor Aksel Wiin-Nielsen, who was WMO Secretary-General from 1 January 1980 to 31 December 1983.

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WMO expressed condolences at the passing away on 26 April of Professor Aksel Wiin-Nielsen, who was WMO Secretary-General from 1 January 1980 to 31 December 1983

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Today, WMO became a signatory of the Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA) of the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM). The objective of the MRA is to establish

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At a press conference in Geneva on 16 March, Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General of WMO, announced that African Ministers responsible for meteorology will meet in Nairobi, Kenya, to explore the best ways to strengthen weather, climate and water information for decision-making to help achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals.

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WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud said the request for an independent review of the IPCC processes and procedures met with the full support of the WMO.

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If twenty-first century warming occurs as projected, the maximum wind speed of tropical cyclones will likely, on average worldwide, increase 2 to 11 per cent, while rainfall rates will increase approximately 20 per cent within 100 kilometres of a storm centre, according to the WMO Expert Team on Climate Change Impacts on Tropical Cyclones.

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Climate change is accelerating the disappearance of sea ice in the Arctic, according to early findings of a large-scale study that is part of the International Polar Year (IPY), a project organized by WMO and the International Council for Science.

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Operational meteorological services are essential to preventing further disasters in Haiti. WMO Members have been providing weather information for Haiti since domestic meteorological facilities were rendered unusable by the recent earthquake.

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Tropical cyclone Oli developed at 06:00 UTC today in the South Pacific, about 350 kilometers west of Tahiti, French Polynesia. Oli is moving south-east at 15 kilometres per hour. It is currently equivalent to a Category 3 hurricane.

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According to a recent review and evaluation conducted by a panel of experts in charge of global weather and climate extremes within the WMO Commission for Climatology (CCl), the new record wind gust, not related to tornados, registered to date is 408 kilometres per hour.

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The cold wave now affecting the northern hemisphere is a meteorological phenomenon caused by the large-scale blocking of atmospheric circulation on a major North-South corridor. The blocking episode is nearing its end, and the northern hemisphere winter is now reverting to its normal features from the West and South in Western Europe.

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Representatives from more than 100 countries, as well as from non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations, met in Geneva, Switzerland, from 11 to 12 January 2010 to follow-up on the decision by World Climate Conference-3 (WCC-3) to establish a Global Framework for Climate Services. The intergovernmental meeting approved the terms of reference and endorsed the composition of a High-Level Taskforce of independent advisers.

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With climate change, the frequency and magnitude of droughts are very likely to increase. In the "Lincoln declaration on drought indices", 54 experts from all regions agreed on the use of a universal meteorological drought index for more effective drought monitoring and climate risk management.

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Out of the 245 natural disasters in 2009, 224 were weather related, accounting for 55 million people out of the 58 million people affected, 7 000 out of 8 900 of those killed, and US$ 15 billion out of the US$ 19 billion in economic damages.

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The year 2009 is likely to rank in the top 10 warmest on record since the beginning of instrumental climate records in 1850, according to data sources compiled by WMO.

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In 2008, global concentrations of carbon dioxide again reached the highest levels ever recorded.

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