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Issue 1/2024 of the WMO Services for Aviation Newsletter has just been issued. The newsletter, issued two times per year, brings the meteorological and aviation communities up-to-date on some of the latest developments within WMO, its Members and its partner organizations such as ICAO. The latest
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The final report of SERCOM-3 (WMO-No. 1352) is now available
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In January 2024, EUMETNET, in collaboration with ECMWF and EUMETSAT, launched a groundbreaking five-year Artificial Intelligence (AI) programme, managed by Prof. Dr. Roland Potthast (DWD). This initiative brings together 16 National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) from the Regional
EC-78 WIS
At the 78th session of the Executive Council (EC-78), three significant documents related to WMO Information System (WIS) were endorsed. These include Amendments on Manual on WIS, Transition Guide, and Amendments on Manual on Codes. Amendments on Manual on WIS The amendments to the Manual on WIS
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The Secretariat of World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) were kindly invited to attend a workshop on meteorological services for the safety of air navigation in the countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC)
RA VI Working mechanism (optimised as of May 2024)
The RA VI Management Group, with support from the Regional Office for Europe and in coordination with the RA VI Working Group chairs, has implemented key changes to optimize its working mechanisms for better coordination and efficiency. The Regional Concept Team and the Inter and Intra-Regional
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The final report of the first meeting of the Standing Committee on Services for Aviation (SC-AVI) Expert Team on Weather and Climate Science for Aviation Applications (ET-WCS-1) is now available here. The meeting was held in Geneva, Switzerland from 16 to 18 April 2024. Working documentation
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WMO has published the abridged final report of the third session of the Commission for Weather, Climate, Hydrological, Marine and Related Environmental Services and Applications (SERCOM-3), convened in Bali, Indonesia in March 2024. SERCOM is the parent body of WMO's Standing Committee on Services
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Today, 11 June 2024, the seventy-eighth session of the WMO Executive Council endorsed, through Resolution 7 (EC-78), the recommendations and statement arising from an Eighth International Workshop on Volcanic Ash (IWVA-8), which was convened by WMO in Rotorua, New Zealand in February 2023. With the
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The United Kingdom Met Office, in collaboration with the World Meteorological Organization and the South African Weather Service, will convene an in-person Aviation Meteorology Training Seminar in Pretoria, South Africa from 30 September to 4 October 2024. Read the WMO Semi-Circular Letter