ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE PROVISION OF METEOROLOGICAL ASSISTANCE TO UN HUMANITARIAN MISSIONS

The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) shall normally request a service from the national Meteorological Service National Meteorological Centre (NMC) of the country concerned. If the NMC is not operational, this fact shall be confirmed to the associated RSMC with geographical specialization when requesting a service. OCHA shall also specify details of area or location for which service is required.  The NMCs or RSMCs usually provide the products to the OCHA Headquarters operation centre. The RSMCs zones of responsibility are as specified in the annex to this appendix.

The NMC shall:

Upon receipt of a request from OCHA, provide to OCHA or its designated recipient location, basic meteorological and climate information and forecasts. The products to be provided will be negotiated with OCHA, but could consist of 72 hour public weather forecasts, severe weather advisories and warnings longer-range outlooks, and may include climate information for specified areas or locations in support of humanitarian missions.

The WMO Secretariat shall:

(a) Upon request, from OCHA, arrange guidance in interpretation of specialized meteorological information and products made available by NMCs or RSMCs;

(b) Establish and maintain up-to-date NMCs operational contact points for assistance to UN humanitarian missions and make these available to OCHA and RSMCs.

(c) Establish and maintain up-to-date RSMCs contact points and their back-ups.

The RSMC with geographical specialization and its back-up for the relevant zone of responsibility shall:

(a) Upon receipt of a request from OCHA with confirmation that the relevant national Meteorological Service NMC of a Member facing an emergency or in catastrophic distress and out of Service, provide to OCHA, basic meteorological and climate information and forecasts.  The products to be provided will be negotiated with OCHA, but could consist of 72 hour public weather forecasts, severe weather advisories, and warnings, and longer-range outlook and may include climate information for specified areas or locations in support of humanitarian missions;

(b) For ongoing requirement determine in consultation with OCHA, relevant set of climate information, basic forecasts, their format and methods of delivery, location of delivery, depending on the nature of the situation;

Provision of forecasts from a remote RSMC is not an ideal arrangement and the quality of the forecasts can be expected to be reduced accordingly. The service provided should be accepted on the terms of a best effort basis and recognized as such by OCHA.

Region I

Algiers
Algeria, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Tunisia

Cairo
Egypt, Sudan

Dakar
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Ascension Islands, Spain (Canary Islands), St Helena, Portugal (Madeira), Western Sahara

Nairobi
Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania

Pretoria
Angola, Comoros, Botswana, Kerguelen and New Amsterdam, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, France (Department of La Réunion), Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Zambia

Region II

Beijing
China, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Hong Kong (China)*, Macao, Viet Nam

Jeddah
Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Republic of Yemen, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Khabarovsk
Russian Federation (in RA II)

New Delhi
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Novosibirsk
Mongolia, Russian Federation

Tashkent
Afghanistan (Islamic State of), Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Kazakstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

Tokyo
Cambodia, Japan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Republic of Korea

Region III

Brasilia
Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, France (Department of French Guyana), Suriname, Venezuela

Buenos Aires
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay

Region IV

Washington
Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Caribbean Territories, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, France (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon), Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Venezuela

Miami
El Salvador

Region V

Melbourne
Australia

Darwin
Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Solomon Islands

Wellington
Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Kiribati, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Pitcaim, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, Western Samoa

Region VI

Bracknell
Gibraltar, Denmark (Greenland), Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, United Kingdom

Moscow
Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Cyprus, Georgia, Jordan, Poland, Romania, Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation (in RA VI), Ukraine, Yugoslavia

Offenbach
Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Finland, France, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland

Rome
Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey