1. Lebanese Meteorological Department (LMD)

2. Administrative Governance Ministry of Public Works and Transport Directorate General of Civil Aviation …… Lebanese Meteorological Department (LMD) Forecasting Services Observation Services Climatology Services ……

3. LMD : Services-Forecasting National scale weather forecasting services Aeronautical services 1. Civil aviation 2. Civil marine 3. Militar aviation 4. Military marine

4. LMD : Services-Observation Observational stations 1. National upper air soundings 2. Ground level observation 3. Marine observation 4. Weather Radar (broken, looking for new one) 5. Wind shear radar (broken, awaiting repairs)

5. LMD : Services-Climatology Climatological services 1. Archiving 2. Controling 3. Supplying/selling climatological data (discount for university students and research institutions) 4. Minimal local analysis/studies

6. LMD : National Met. Offices6 78 26

7. LMD : National AWOS Distribution North: 10 stations Mount Lebanon: 8 stations Beirut: 2 stations South: 8 stations Bekaa Valley: 8 stations 10 2 8 8 8

8. LMD : National AWOS (1/4)

9. LMD : National AWOS (2/4)

10. LMD : National AWOS (3/4)

11. LMD : National AWOS (4/4)

12. LMD : Data Collection Data mainly collected by two means: 1. PSTN connected stations automatically polled on an hourly basis : 15 stations 2. The rest are visited about once per month, and data is retrieved on removable memory cards. 3. (NB : Very few stations have manually recorded data : 2 stations )

13. LMD : Data Archiving STnameSTtypeTRHWindRRGSRTdTsoleP AL ARZ-LES CEDRES Auria 12 XXXXXX-XX BAYSSOUR Auria 12 XXXX-X--- BEYROUTH- GOLF Auria 12 XXXXXX-XX DAHR EL BAIDAR Auria 12 XXXXXX-XX EL ABDE Auria 12 XXXXXX-XX EL QLAIAAT- AKKAR Auria 12 XXXXXX-XX HOUCH El OUMARA- ZAHLE Auria 12 XXXXXX-XX MARJAYOU N Auria 12 XXXXXXXXX RAYAK- AMARA Auria 12 XXXXXX-XX SOUR Auria 12 XXXXXXXXX

14. LMD : Related Future Plans Implement National interaction between different Institutions: Ministry of water  Meteorology  Ministry of Agriculture  Ministry of Environment Find a common ground for National data interchange Develop more robust Database (web managed &/or web queried database) Implement preliminary data control system At a later stage, try to implement quality control system, homogeneity control system

15. LMD : Related Future Plans Additional personel needed Personel training needed Weather radar, wind shear radar required Maybe Regional interchange? I guess it’s up to this meeting to give the first kick!

16. First step into a long way y y …