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11/20/2015 Didace MUSONI -Rwanda Meteorological Service 1 By TWAHIRWA F. KABANGUKA November 19 th 2012
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WELL COME TO RWANDA
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Rwanda is known for: The rare mountain gorilla (Silver Back) in the Virunga Mountains
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Introduction Rwanda is known for Genocide of 1994
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Introduction Rwanda is known as: a land of thousand hills
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N UGANDA BURUNDI TANZANIA DRCDRC
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Position and map of Rwanda AFRICA CONTINENT
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Location Rwanda is located in East Africa bordering with Uganda in the north, west with Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), south west with Burundi and Tanzania in East respectively. Therefore Latitude of 01º58 and Longitude of 030 º 08, also with Altitude of 1,490 meters.
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Human Resources The personnel in this Subsector are composed of 47 professionals 3 Class I (have degrees) 16 Class II ( 7 are at airports) 2 Class III 26 Class IV (4 at airports) This level of professional staff is inadequate for effectively fulfilling the present Mission and functions of RMS at all levels. There is also lack of personnel for customer relations (awareness, identification of their needs) and marketing. However, while we stress the great need for more staff and training, the great contribution being made by the present staff under these conditions is highly commendable
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Meteorological station 71 Rainfall stations 10 Automatic stations 13 Agro-synoptic stations 72 Climatological stations PUMA station (Satellite Image Reciever) CURRENT INFRASTRACTURE
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We are Rwanda’s national weather and climate service. Vision To provide accurate, timely weather and climate information and products for the general welfare of the people Mission To be a highly efficient and effective Meteorological Service, which is customer and employee focused
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Operations/ capacity 1.Observing the weather 2.Climatological analysis 3.Meteorological data archiving 4.Forecasting 5.Advisorie s
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Hazards, Floods in Musanze
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Floods in Rubavu district, MAM 2010
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Soil erosion and land slides
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Strong winds
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Drought in Bugesera district
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Other hazards HAILSTONE, THUNDERSTORM,FROST AND FOG
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TOOLS USE IN SEVERE WEATHER FORECASTING
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Stevenson Screen
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Models Nomad Uk met office NCEP NOAA Global Forecasting System EUMESAT satellite ECMWF
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METEOROLOGICAL PRODUCTS FROM DIFFERENT MODELS
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NCEP Medium Range Weather forecasting
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NOAA Global Forecasting System (GFS) and Ensemble Prediction System( EPS
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PROBABILITY OF 24hr PRECIPITATION EXCEEDING 5mm
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UK Met Office Limited area Model
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. EUMESAT satellite imagery
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ECMWF EPS
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END THANK YOU MURAKOZE.
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