World Meteorological Organization

WMO Regional Training Centre (RTC) Beijing, hosted by the China Meteorological Administration Training Centre (CMATC), is offering an international distance-leading training course on aeronautical meteorological services from 30 May to 10 June 2022. The course aims to help participants to improve

The WMO Services Commission, in collaboration with the Research Board, is convening a series of Aeronautical Meteorology Scientific Webinars (web-based seminars) across all six WMO regions on 7, 8 and 9 June 2022. (Note, different regions on each day.) The theme of the webinars is: “Scientific and

Regional Association VI is in the middle of the WMO reform process in support of the UN reform, which aims at optimizing its structure and at increasing efficiency of its bodies. As part of it, regional business is being scaled up, while its intra-and inter-regional cooperation, collaboration is

Weather, climate and water extremes are becoming more frequent and intense as a result of climate change. More people are exposed than ever before to multiple hazards. Forecasts of what the weather will be are no longer enough. Impact-based forecasts on what the weather will do and what people

The Final Report and Executive Summary of the Second Meeting of the Standing Committee on Services for Aviaton (SC-AVI-2) are now available here. The meeting was held in a hybrid mode (in-person and online) between 29 March and 1 April 2022. In addition, the results of a Satisfaction Survey on the

Following the strategic objectives of the World Meteorological Organization related to establishments and maintaining of the Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS) in its Member states, WMO together with its partners and Members is active in designing, upgrading and/or making of operational

Dear WIGOS community, We are pleased to announce that two new tutorial videos on OSCAR/Surface have just been published on Vimeo. With many thanks to Luisa Ickes (WIGOS consultant) and several Secretariat colleagues, the new tutorial videos on OSCAR/Surface have been produced to address the recently

The 2021 Safety Report of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) was published in April 2022 and is available for download here. Through his involvement in IATA's Accident Classification Task Force (ACTF), Head of WMO's Services for Aviation Division, Greg Brock, directly contributed to

Regional Forum on Sustainable Development, convened annually by the UNECE, is a key platform at the regional level for policy debates, exchange of good practices and peer learning on Sustainable Development Goals' implementation. The 2022 UNECE Regional Forum on Sustainable Development aimed to

On 10 April 2020, during the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Services for Aviation Division of WMO launched a webpage containing preliminary guidelines to support aeronautical meteorological service providers in their response to the pandemic. With effect today (1 April 2022) this