World Meteorological Organization

***UPDATE 26 FEBRUARY 2021*** A video-recording of the SERCOM side-event held on 23 February 2021 is available here. Original message of 17 February 2021: On Tuesday 23 February 2021, between 1630 and 1800 UTC, Part II of the First Session of WMO Services Commission, SERCOM-1 (II), will convene a

WMO expertise is contributing to the first Meteorological Technology World Expo Virtual 'Live' 2021 for Aviation Meteorology to be held on 24 March 2021, 1300-1500 UTC. The conference will provide a platform for aviation meteorologists, airline and airport operators, air navigation services and

Further to the Services for Aviation News Item of 24 April 2020 notifying of the postponement from October 2020 to (provisionally) October 2021 of the Eighth International Workshop on Volcanic Ash (IWVA/8) in Reykjavik, Iceland, after careful consideration of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and

To raise public awareness on typhoon-related hazards in the Typhoon Committee (TC) region, some short videos with English subtitle and voiceover are produced. In 2021, the video title is “Typhoon edging closer. Are you ready?” and is provided by Hong Kong Observatory (HKO). For more information

Further to the publication of the Final Report and Executive Summary of the First Meeting of the Standing Committee on Services for Aviaton (SC-AVI-1) held online in December 2020 (see News Item here), Addendum No. 1 to the Final Report of SC-AVI-1 is now available here. Addendum No. 1 pertains to

The final report of the virtual meeting of the INFCOM/SC-ON Joint Expert Team on Aircraft-Based Observing Systems, 8-10 December is now available from the WMO Library. Previous reports of the WMO Aircraft-Based Observations programme are available on the Community Platform here.

The Final Report and Executive Summary of the First Meeting of the Standing Committee on Services for Aviaton (SC-AVI) now available here. The meeting was held online between 8 and 16 December 2020. In addition, the results of a Satisfaction Survey on the planning, preparation and conducting of SC

WMO has published a 2020 update to WMO-No. 930, Compendium on Tropical Meteorology for Aviation Purposes. The 2020 update is available via the WMO e-Library here in English only. The Compendium is intended for use by airport and airspace planners and designers, air traffic controllers and flight

WMO has recently published a 2020 update to the Manual on the Global Telecommunication System: Annex III to the WMO Technical Regulations (WMO-No. 386). The 2020 update is available via the WMO e-Library here in English, French, Spanish and Russian. This update, approved by the President of WMO via

Today, WMO further updated its preliminary guidelines for aeronautical meteorological service providers (AMSPs) during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to include links to a series of insightful meteorology, aviation and other relevant industry articles, portals and interviews in the public