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WMO and Public Warning presented 9 December, 2008 at the “CAP Implementers Workshop" WMO Secretariat, Geneva by Jean-Michel Rainer, Director WMO Information System (WIS) http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/ISS/Meetings/WIS-CAP_Geneva2008/Rainer.ppt
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9 Dec 2006CAP Implementers Workshop 2 WMO Comprised of 188 Member nations and territories WMO Information System, including its Global Telecommunication System for international exchange of weather, water and climate data, predictions and alerts. National Meteorological and Hydrological Services have crucial public alerting functions
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9 Dec 2006CAP Implementers Workshop 3 WMO Global Observing System Observing systems, on land, at sea, upper-air and spaceborne Owned and operated by WMO Members
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9 Dec 2006CAP Implementers Workshop 4 Analysis and Forecasting Generating and distributing meteorological and related geophysical analysis, forecasts and warnings
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9 Dec 2006CAP Implementers Workshop 5 WMO’s Global Telecommunications System (GTS) National Meteorological and Hydrological Service NMC: National Meteorological Center RTH: Regional Telecommunications Hub
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9 Dec 2006CAP Implementers Workshop 6 WMO Information System Government and civil defence authorities Media General public Private sector National Meteorological and Hydrological Service WMO Information System (WIS) GISC: Global Information System Center DCPC: Data Collection or Processing Center NC: National Center
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9 Dec 2006CAP Implementers Workshop 7 Tropical Cyclones Example
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9 Dec 2006CAP Implementers Workshop 8 90 % of natural disasters, 70% of casualties, 75% of economic losses are related to hydro-meteorological hazards such as floods, droughts, tropical cyclones, severe storms... Weather, Water and Natural Hazards
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9 Dec 2006CAP Implementers Workshop 9 The Challenge of Public Warning "Collaborative actions are necessary to assure that standards-based, all-media, all-hazards public warning becomes an essential infrastructure component available to all societies worldwide."
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9 Dec 2006CAP Implementers Workshop 10 CAP Implementations and WMO It is absolutely essential to maintain public trust in alerting systems On the public Internet, we need a high level of authority and authenticity for alert messages WMO applauds the 2006 announcement that authoritative, authenticated alerts in CAP format can be disseminated over the Internet at no charge by any official source worldwide
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9 Dec 2006CAP Implementers Workshop 11 WMO Members Implementing CAP U.S. and Canada have shown leadership in CAP implementation WMO Severe Weather Information Centre has begun work on CAP Adopting CAP into EUMETNET’s Meteoalarm will be very important Programmes promoting CAP implementations in developing countries are very welcome ITU Development Sector approved guidelines on CAP implementation in developing nations
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9 Dec 2006CAP Implementers Workshop 12 Conclusions The 188 WMO Members have crucial public alerting functions, often based in National Meteorological and Hydrological Services WMO infrastructures for observations, analysis, forecasting, and communications can support global implementation of the CAP standard WMO stands ready to do its part in assuring that all-media, all-hazards public warning becomes available to all societies worldwide
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