🚨 Don’t Miss Our Upcoming WIPPS Webinar! Discover how Emergency Response WIPPS Activities deliver real benefits — for both nuclear and non-nuclear incidents and accidents. This webinar will highlight how WIPPS-DCs support Members in managing both nuclear and non-nuclear incidents and accidents. It
The preparation meeting for the WIS2 to GTS gateway test was successfully conducted in a hybrid format from 26 to 27 February in WMO HQ. The meeting took place from 07:00 to 13:00 UTC, with short breaks to accommodate remote participants from different time zones. The meeting brought together SC-IMT
The 2024 Safety Report of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) was published today, 26 February 2025, and is available for interactive online viewing here. Through his involvement in IATA's Accident Classification Task Force (ACTF), Greg Brock, Chief of WMO's Services for Aviation
The final report of the second meeting of the Advisory Group on Volcanic Science for Aviation Applications (AG-VSA-2) is available here. The meeting was held in Edinburgh, United Kingdom from 4 to 6 February 2025. Working documentation addressed during AG-VSA-2 is available here. AG-VSA is a
The High-Level Conference on the Challenges of Climate Change in South-Eastern Europe, held from 4 to 6 February 2025 in Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia, brought together policymakers, directors of the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services, partner agencies and experts to address the region’s
A new WMO Energy Mini Project began in January 2025 in Chile under the ENANDES+ project , following the successful completion of its first phase. The initial phase focused on developing an evaporation rate reduction model for open bodies of water with floating solar panel systems (FSPS), which has
WMO expertise has contributed to an article titled ' Airborne soil-derived dust hazards in aviation' published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 106, No. 1. Article abstract: Airborne mineral dust poses a safety challenge for aviation. Several fatal accidents have happened
In its third session from April 2024, the WMO Commission for Observation, Infrastructure and Information Systems (INFCOM) endorsed a decision for Members to share results from experiments on on non-catchment instruments (NCIs) and consider contributions to a formal intercomparison study. Based on
Operational Newsletter on the World Weather Watch 2025 Contact: wis@wmo.int Finnish Meteorological Institute to Start Sending CLIMAT Reports in BUFR Format Notification from the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) The Finnish Meteorological Institute will start sending CLIMAT reports in BUFR
