Enhancing weather and climate service delivery

Effective national weather and climate services are essential to strengthen a nation's preparedness, well-being, prosperity and prospects for growth.

To achieve this NMHSs need to deliver services to a wide range of customers in relevant, useful and accessible ways. We work in partnership with NMHSs worldwide to support them in developing their capabilities to deliver effective weather and climate services. We draw on our cutting edge science and operational experience to offer practical advice and specialist weather and climate consultancy services. 

Key areas we support include:

• Situational assessments
• Climate consultancy
• User engagement
• Institutional strengthening (strategy, management, operating procedures, standards)
• Capacity development (archiving, forecasting, observing)
• Product/service design and development
• Disaster risk management and early warning systems
• Weather and climate media and communications (television, radio, mobile, internet)
• Technical assistance (design of observations and applications, systems consultancy, modelling)
• Commercial consultancy to deliver services to private sector clients
• Tailored training programmes
• Monitoring and evaluation

Read more about how we support NMHSs in the case studies below:

Developing weather and climate services for the Nigerian offshore oil and gas industry

Opportunities for commercial weather and climate services serving the East African energy sector

Improving resilience to severe weather and climate change in the Philippines (PAGASA)

Enchancing media systems - Uganda

Initial Forecasting Course - Tanzania Meteorological Agency

Developing demand-led climate information services in Western Kenya

The following training programme aims to integrate disaster risk reduction into sustainable capacity development plans and help to enhance early warning systems:

Training: Severe Weather Events – Effective Planning