Weathering the Change : How to Improve Hydromet Services in Developing Countries?
The societal need for more accurate and reliable weather, climate, and hydrological information is growing fast as population density and migration increases and climate change takes place. Nowhere is this need more acutely felt than in low- and mi...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/812651554460935056/Weathering-the-Change-How-to-Improve-Hydromet-Services-in-Developing-Countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31507 |
| Summary: | The societal need for more accurate and
reliable weather, climate, and hydrological information is
growing fast as population density and migration increases
and climate change takes place. Nowhere is this need more
acutely felt than in low- and middle-income countries
(LMICs). The four environmental risks all have a
higher-than-average likelihood of occurrence and are
tangibly affecting human well-being, including health and
economic prosperity. How can these environmental risks be
reduced, and losses avoided? Because weather, climate, and
the water cycle know no national boundaries, international
cooperation is essential for people and society to get
timely access to high quality and actionable information to
mitigate the threat of meteorological and hydrological
hazards. This international cooperation takes place in what
is called the Global Weather Enterprise (GWE), a term coined
to describe the totality of activities by individuals and
organizations to enable weather information to be created
and provided to society. The GWE is a supreme exemplar of
the value of international cooperation, public-private
management, and scientific technological know-how. This
report is arranged as follows: Chapter 1 examines the
current state of the GWE, the need for modernizing National
Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs), and the
difficulties of sustaining improvements once they occur;
Chapter 2 takes an in-depth look at NMHSs, highlighting the
unacceptably big gap between the capabilities of the most
and least advanced ones; Chapter 3 examines why NMHSs need
to focus more on providing the services that their
stakeholders need and want; and Chapter 4 provides detailed
recommendations for modernizing NMHSs. |
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