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WMO Regional
Association I (Africa) 14th Session
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
14-23 February 2007
This report covers various items from the meeting considered of
particular interest to the HMEI Membership and is not intended to be
definitive.
Please see the WMO
Final Report of the meeting when it is available.
The Provisional Annotated
Agenda of this meeting is available at:
ftp://ftp.wmo.int/Documents/SESSIONS/XIV-RA-I/English/DOCs/pdf/d02-2rev1_en.pdf
Documents presented at this meeting are available at:
ftp://ftp.wmo.int/Documents/SESSIONS/XIV-RA-I/
Michel Pousse from Meteo France International (MFI) was
able to attend and represent HMEI for two days of this meeting. HMEI
thanks Mr Pousse for his attendance on February 15 and 16 and for
providing the following report, on points of interest during his
attendance, for HMEI Members.
Official Opening
The session opening took place on February 14th, 2007 in presence of
Michel JARRAUD. All topics included in the program received
contributions from regional National Met Services and exchanges were
rich.
Global Observing Systems (GOS), WIS and creation of regional Global
Information System Centers (GISCs)
Debates on this concluded that the creation of GISCs will come only
after CIMO. Algeria and Guinea pointed out that the Rapporteurs’ mission
was hard to insure, mainly due to a lack of guidelines in their duties.
Regional Aspects of the Climatology Program
CLIMSOFT system received contributions from Namibia, UK and Zambia that
are using it with quite good profit and Uganda will also do so soon. As
the project also includes Zimbabwe, Guinea and others, WMO wishes a
better recognition of all these contribution in further texts.
Atmospheric Research and Environment Program (AREP)
AREP, and particularly THORPEX, consider that WMO should finance
research on tropical meteorology with a regular budget and allow a
better control from National Met Services of what is going on in
THORPEX. The meeting was informed that this will be the case in 2008,
but with limited amount.
Application of Meteorology programs (AMP)
AMP and specifically meteorology programs for Agriculture and
Aeronautics have been key issues of the conference as well as the
Hydrology and Water Resources program, on which there were presentations
on several regional realisations.
Election of President and Vice-President of the RA-I
Mr. Bah from Guinea and Mr. Makarau from Zimbabwe were elected
respectively as President and Vice-President of the RA-I. |
