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METEOROLOGICAL AGENCIES WORLDWIDE
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International Meteorological Agencies
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Weather Service in Africa
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Weather Service in Australia
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Weather Service in Europe
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Caribbean Weather Services
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Pacific Island Weather Services
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Weather and meteorology agencies and organizations may be created by
governments, business and industry, educational institutions, consumer
groups and any combination thereof. Some weather and meteorology
agencies and organizations are directly tied to the founding bodies, some
are adjuncts, and others are entirely autonomous.
In the U.S., most weather agencies and organizations are governmental (including
U.S.
military weather services), such as the
National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) or independent
and non-profit, such as the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and
the University
Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR).
Weather and meteorology agencies and organizations serve a variety of
functions, usually defined in a mission statement or
charter and often further expanded upon in a goals or
vision statement. Some of these functions may include:
- Promotion of education, research, development and commerce in
meteorology, climatology, paleoclimatology and related
disciplines such as environmental science and engineering, planetary
science, space science, atmospheric chemistry and structural
engineering;
- Funding of weather and environmental research, development and
technology transfer efforts;
- Encouraging development of career opportunities in meteorology
and facilitation of job placement within various meteorology,
environmental and earth sciences disciplines:
- Raising public awareness of weather-related issues, challenges or
hazards or bringing a particular aspect of meteorology, climatology
or environmental science to the forefront of the public
consciousness;
- Serving as watchdogs or monitors for the environmental
industry and meteorological and environmental research to insure
compliance with safety procedures, ethical standards and codes of
conduct.
- Lobbying lawmaking bodies for enactment of laws either favorable to
meteorological and environmental disciplines and activities or
restrictive to aspects of their development.
Weather and meteorology agencies and organizations in the private sector are
most often non-profit entities, but may also be for-profit companies such
as think tanks engaged in furthering the environmental industry
and weather-related research. Weather and meteorology agencies and
organizations may be regional, but are mostly national or international
in scope and influence.
Authored by Kenneth L. Anderson.
Original article published 12 July 2005.
Follow links to the right to learn more about weather and meteorological agencies and organizations in the U.S. and worldwide.
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