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To
predict the weather, modern meteorology depends upon near
instantaneous exchange of weather information across the entire
globe.
The
World Weather Watch (WWW), the core of the WMO Programmes, combines
observing systems, telecommunication facilities, and data-processing
and forecasting centres - operated by Members - to make available
meteorological and related geophysical information needed to provide
efficient services in all countries.
The
WWW is a unique achievement in international cooperation: in
few other fields of human endeavour, and particularly in science and
technology, is there - or has there ever been - such a truly
world-wide operational system to which virtually every country in
the world contributes, every day of every year, for the common
benefit of mankind. |
Through the WWW Programmes WMO Members coordinate and implement
standardization of measuring methods and techniques, common
telecommunication procedures, and the presentation of observed data
and processed information in a manner which is understood by all,
regardless of language.
These arrangements, as well as the operation of the WWW facilities,
are coordinated and monitored by WMO with a view to ensuring that
every country has available all of the information it needs to
provide weather services on a day-to-day basis as well as for
long-term planning and research.
An
increasingly important part of the WWW Programme provides support
for developing international programmes related to global climate
and other environmental issues, and to sustainable development.
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