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Comprehensive assessment of the freshwater resources of the world
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations (UN); United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); et al. - WMO, 1997Few would dispute that urban water systems should be both healthy and sustainable. Ideally, along with efficiency, these are central pillars in every urban water strategy. Unfortunately, the narrow pursuit of health can undermine the sustainability of water systems, and vice versa. Such trade-offs must not be rationalised away, but recognised in order to develop diversified and better aimed water strategies. It is crude policies, such as promoting health by providing free water for all, or promoting sustainability by charging everyone high prices, that create the steepest trade-offs. Trade-off ...
World Climate Applications and Services Programme (WCASP), 43. Meteorological aspects and recommendations for assessing and using the wind as an energy source in the tropics
Daniels Anders; Schroeder Thomas A.; World Meteorological Organization (WMO) - WMO, 1997 (WMO/TD-No. 826)
Weather and the media: a press relations guide
This practical guide is intended for the Information and Public Affairs (IPA) focal points in the NMHSs and senior WMO staff who are responsible for press relations or who have to deal with the media in the course of their work. The guide is a basic reference tool that will be used in training workshops on communication strategies and techniques.Geosciences and the UN System: report of the meeting of eminent persons
This brochure was prepared for World Meteorological Day 2000, the day on which WMO celebrated its 50th anniversary. It gives a brief history of WMO and reviews the major contributions of the Organization over its 50 years in existence. It also highlights the recent contributions to new challenges faced by the Organization, and includes an excerpt from the WMO vision for the twenty-first century, which will guide the Organization in the coming years in its service to humankind.IPCC Special Report. The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability : summary for Policymakers
The Special Report explores the potential consequences of changes in climate for ten continental- or subcontinentalscale regions. Because of the uncertainties associated with
regional projections of climate change, the report necessarily takes the approach of assessing sensitivities and vulnerabilities of each region, rather than attempting to provide quantitative predictions of the impacts of climate change. As in the SAR, “vulnerability” is the extent to which climate change may damage or harm a system; it is a function of both sensitivity to climate and the ability to adapt to new co ...Rapport spécial du GIEC. Incidences de l'évolution du climat dans les régions: Evaluation de la vulnérabilité : résumé à l'intention des décideurs
Organisation météorologique mondiale (OMM); Zinyowera Marufu C.; Moss Richard H.; et al. - GIEC, 1997Le présent rapport examine les conséquences éventuelles de l'évolution du climat dans dix régions continentales et sous-continentales. Les incertitudes entourant les prévisions régionales des changements climatiques ont contraint les auteurs à évaluer la sensibilité et
la vulnérabilité de chaque région, plutôt que de tenter de chiffrer les incidences prévues. Comme dans le SAR, la vulnérabilité définit la mesure dans laquelle l'évolution du climat risque d'endommager un système quelconque ou de lui nuire; elle est fonction de sa sensibilité au climat et de sa capacité à s'adapter à de n ...
Climate and human health
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; World Health Organization (WHO); United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) - WMO, 1996 (WMO-No. 843)This booklet, published jointly with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is a review of the relationship between climate and human health prepared by Drs Kalkstein, Jendritzky and Maunder.WCRP Informal/Series Report, 4/1996. Global energy and water cycle experiment (GEWEX) - Report of the Fourth session of the GEWEX cloud system study (GCSS) science panel
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU); Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) - WMO, 1996Lectures presented at the forty-fifth session of the WMO Executive Council
Three lectures are presented: "The changing relationships between Meteorological Services and national Governments" ; "Advances in operational numerical weather prediction: an outlook for the early 21st century" (in English) and "Applications of meteorology and hydrology to environment and development problems" (in French).Scientific lectures presented at the Eleventh World Meteorological Congress
The scientific lectures at Cg-XI related to three subjects: assessment of available scientific information on climate change; assessment of environmental and socio-economic impacts of climate change; and natural disaster reduction. The publication contains the full texts of the seven lectures (six in English and one in Russian) relating to those topics.WCRP, 74. Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) : report of the fourth session of the JSC Scientific Steering Group for GEWEX
International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU); World Meteorological Organization (WMO) - WMO, 1992 (WMO/TD-No. 490)WCRP, 67. Scientific plan for the GEWEX Continental-scale International Project (GCIP)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment ; International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) - WMO, 1992 (WMO/TD-No. 461)WCRP, 66. Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) : report of the first GEWEX Temperature/Humidity Retrieval Workshop
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) - WMO, 1992 (WMO/TD-No. 460)
WCRP, 61. Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) : report of the second session of the WCRP-GEWEX/IGPB-BAHC Joint Working Group on Land-surface Experiments
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment - WMO, 1991 (WMO/TD-No. 437)
WCRP, 57. Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) : report of the third session of the JSC Scientific Steering Group for GEWEX
World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) ; World Meteorological Organization (WMO) - WMO, 1991 (WMO/TD-No. 424)WCRP, 44. Report of the second session of the JSC Scientific Steering Group for GEWEX
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) - WMO, 1990 (WMO/TD-No. 383)WCRP, 38. Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) : report of the first session of the WCRP-GEWEX/IGBP-CP3 Joint Working Group on Land-surface Experiments
International Council for Science (ICSU); World Meteorological Organization (WMO) - WMO, 1990 (WMO/TD-No. 370)
World Climate Applications Programme (WCAP), 01. Climate change and Human Health: Proceedings of the symposium in Leningrad (WMO/TD-No. 219) - Volume II
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); World Health Organization (WHO) - WMO, 1987 (WMO/TD-No. 219)
World Climate Applications Programme (WCAP), 01. Climate change and Human Health: Proceedings of the symposium in Leningrad (WMO/TD-No. 218), Volume I
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); World Health Organization (WHO) - WMO, 1987 (WMO/TD-No. 218)
World Climate Applications Programme (WCAP). Climate change and Human Health (WMO/TD-No. 219), Volume II
Meteorology and the media
Published to mark World Meteorological Day 1988, this booklet contains four chapters. Chapter 1 provides a historical background and review of the service products disseminated to the public through the media, Chapter 2 deals with the various modes of disseminating weather reports and Chapter 3 summarizes the replies from some fifty Member countries to an inquiry on the relationship between national Meteorological and Hydrological Services, the media and the general public. Chapter 4 contains an interview with Dr K. Takeuchi of the Japan Weather Association.Water : lectures presented at the thirty-eight session of the WMO Executive Council
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Richter D.; Dooge J.C.I.; et al. - WMO, 1987 (WMO-No. 675)Contains four lectures: The atmosphere and water quality by J.P Bruce; The role of operational hydrology in national economic development (in a developed country with a combined Hydrometeorological Service) by V. Richter; Climate change and water resources by J.C.I. Dooge; The role of operational and applied hydrology in the socio-economic development of the Republic of Niger.WCP, 142. Possible climatic consequences of a major nuclear war
Golitsyn G.S.; MacCracken Michael C.; World Meteorological Organization (WMO) - WMO, 1987 (WMO/TD-No. 201)El Niño phenomenon and fluctuations of climate : lectures presented at the thirty-sixth session of the WMO Executive Council
Four lectures are presented: "The characteristics of the 1982/1983 El Niño off the Pacific coast of South America"; "The ecological and economic impacts of the El Niño phenomenon in the South-East Pacific"; "Research on El Niño", and "El Niño - Southern Oscillation and investigations of short-range climate variations according to the programme 'Sections'".
Meteorological and hydrological aspects of siting and operation of nuclear power plants: volume I, meteorological aspects
Meteorology and hydrology play an important role in the understanding of the basic criteria for the siting of nuclear power plant and in applying protective measures for their operations. In order to provide advice on this matter, the WMO Secretariat, at the request of the Executive Council, arranged for the preparation of a Technical Note aimed at practising meteorologists and hydrologists of countries faced with the task of installing nuclear power plants.Natural resources and rural development in arid lands : case studies from Sudan
United Nations, 1985In 1975 the Council of the United Nations University identified three priority areas for its concern-world hunger, human and social development, and the use and management of natural resources - and directed that a programme should be organized in each of these areas. Each of these programmes is closely related to the others. For example, better use and management of natural resources would help to solve the problem of world hunger and so release more resources and human energy for human and social development.
By early 1977 the Programme on the Use and Management of Natural Res ...
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