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Weather: Targets |
The 10-Year Implementation Plan
sets out the following two-, six-
and ten-year targets for guiding
the weather-related work on GEOSS:
2-Year Target
- Facilitate investment in the
critical data gaps (atmospheric
wind and humidity profiles, ocean
evaporation and precipitation,
soil moisture, precipitation)
and improve predictive models
to augment the quality of forecasts
of severe events and general weather
conditions.
- Advocate support for plans
to assist developing countries
to utilize the forecasts in order
to reduce impacts on life and
property.
Facilitate, with WMO, education
and training of developing country
personnel in the effective use
of currently available weather
information.
- Advocate support for existing
weather capacity building programmes
and initiatives, understanding
their status and regional distribution.
- Advocate support for the WMO
plans to establish the feasibility
of expanding EUCOS to other regions.
6-Year Targets
- Advocate support for WMO coordinated
activities to improve data observations
and models to produce reliable
forecasts of severe weather. These
are forecasts that include reliability/probability
estimates, as well as a range
of possible outcomes, and interact
with local authorities to improve
usage and provide tailored services
through newly established regional
and local warning centres.
- Advocate support for WMO plans
in developing countries to support
the establishment of new regional
centres, to allow reliable warnings
of impending severe events.
- Advocate support for WMO plans
to establish better coordinated
regional in situ observation networks
on the basis of the EUCOS model.
10-Year Targets
- Facilitate continuous education,
evaluation and improvements in
developing countries, especially
to allow sustained operations
of the newly established regional
centres.
- Advocate and facilitate the
establishment of new observing
systems to cover specific observations
set out in this Reference Document.
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