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Met Office worldwide
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The Met Office is a world leader in the provision of
valuable advice on the weather and the natural environment.
Our global capabilities are exploited for local benefit
by other national meteorological and hydrological services,
governments, flood managers, humanitarian relief operations,
military organisations and private sector companies
around the world.
Thailand | Australia
| Bermuda | Poland
| South Africa | Mozambique
| Afghanistan
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Mozambique |
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Increased
operational effectiveness
Met Office forecasters won praise for their detailed support
to service personnel operating in the flood-devastated regions
of Mozambique. Wing Commander Bas North, commanding
officer of the RAF's 33 Squadron of Puma helicopters, said;
"The Met Office guidance was the best forecast around
- it gave us exactly what we wanted to fly our missions and
plan the next few days ahead."
From News
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Poland |
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Nimrod — Improved
flood warnings
Following the devastating floods in Poland of 1997,
our Nimrod system is being provided to the Polish national
met. service as part of their Emergency Flood Recovery Project.
The Nimrod system will provide a unique fully automated system
for producing analyses and forecasts of rainfall, helping
to provide advance warning of future severe flood events.
More about Nimrod
More about other system solutions
More about hydrological services
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South Africa |
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The Met Office supported the South African Weather Service
by bringing global weather to the Johannesburg Summit
2002. Through its Horace system, an easy-to-use visualisation
tool for professional meteorologists, weather information
from around the world was available to the summit delegation.
Horace visualises all types of meteorological information
and enables users to create analysis and forecast charts.
More
about the Johannesburg Summit
More about Horace
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Met Office
support in Afghanistan
The Met Office Mobile Met Unit flew to Kabul airport
to support the International Stabilisation Assistance Force,
led by troops from the UK. The Mobile Met. Unit (MMU) has
set up base at Kabul International Airport and is on hand
to provide weather information to help both the war on terrorism
and the humanitarian aid effort.
From News
More about
operational services for defence
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Thailand |
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Complete
short range forecasting system for Thailand
The portability of the Met Office's Numerical Weather Prediction
(NWP) model made it possible for a complete short-range weather
forecasting system to be provided in Thailand. In collaboration
with other partners, the NWP project delivered an NWP system;
a visualisation and forecast production system (Horace); a
meteorological network; a telecommunications system; and a
building to house these systems.
From
NWP Gazette
More
about the accuracy of our NWP model output
More about excellence in
NWP
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Australia |
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Allowing forecasters
to focus on forecasting
Horace is an easy-to-use forecaster workstation - designed
for the professional meteorologists. Kitty Mulder, senior
meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology, Australia,
stated: "Horace allows forecasters to devote more
time to thinking about meteorology and less time physically
modifying weather charts."
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of article taken from Weather News, April 2001
issue, courtsey of the Bureau of Meteorology Australia.
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Bermuda |
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Forecasters working more
independently
The Met Office College provides a range of courses designed
for professional meteorologists, forecasters and graduates.
The courses combine sound theory and scientific know-how with
practical, hands-on experience. Roger Williams, Director of
the Bermuda Weather Service said: "The Bermuda Weather
Service has been sending students for forecaster training
at the Met Office College over the last five years. I have
been impressed with the consistent high standard of the training
and the trainers, as well as the excellent support from their
administration. Following their advanced courses, I have found
that the new forecasters have been quickly assimilated into
the operation, here in Bermuda, where they work independently,
in a sometimes challenging weather environment."
More about
professional training
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All of the above is possible thanks to international
co-operation. For example, the gathering of observational
information is essential to the work of all national meteorological
services.
More
about worldwide Co-operation
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