Expert Team on Waves, Coastal Hazards, and Marine Emergency Response

The Expert Team on Waves, Coastal Hazards, and Marine Emergency Response (ET-WCHMER) works to support WMO requirements, and in addition, support the requirements of partners such as (but not limited to) IOC, IMO and UNDRR, through its expert capability and also – where appropriate – through specific, measurable and achievable time-limited projects.

Coastal landscape with sandy beaches, rocky shoreline, and gentle waves under a blue sky, with hills and scattered buildings in the background.

Working Structure

See a current list of our experts and our Terms of Reference in the Contacts Directory.

Subsidiary bodies

SERCOM Management Group
Standing Committee on Climate Services
Standing Committee on Hydrological Services
Standing Committee on Marine Meteorological and Oceanographic Services (SC-MMO)
Standing Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction and Early Warning Services
Study Group on Renewable Energy Transition

Working groups

Advisory Group on the Worldwide Metocean Information and Warning Service Sub Committee
Flood Forecasting Initiative Advisory Group
Expert Team on Capacity Development for Climate Services
Expert Team on Cataloguing Weather, Water, Climate, Environmental and Space Weather Hazardous Events
Expert Team on Education, Training and Competency
Expert Team on Multi-Hazard Early Warning and Service Delivery Technical Guidance
Expert Team on MetOcean Requirements
Expert Team on Maritime Safety
Expert Team on Competencies and Capacity Development
Advisory Group on Tropical Cyclones
Advisory Group on Severe Weather Forecasting
Expert Team on Integrated Health Services
Task Team on Indigenous and Local Knowledge
Expert Team on Weather and Climate Science for Aviation Applications
Expert Team on Monitoring and Communication Climate Variability and Change
Expert Team on Climate Data Development and Stewardship
Task Team on Methods and Monitoring of Temperature against Paris Agreement Goals
Task Team on Implementation of National Frameworks for Climate Services
Advisory Group on the WMO Coordination Mechanism to support humanitarian activities of the United Nations and other organizations
Task Team on Business Continuity Management
Joint Expert Team on Cryosphere related Services
Expert Team on Climate Services Information Systems for Decision Support

Collaboration Hub

Visit the Sharepoint to access working documents