The potential impacts of climate change are of great practical concern to those interested in coastal wetland resources. Among the areas of greatest risk in the United States are low-lying coastal habitats with easily eroded substrates which occur along the northern Gulf of Mexico and southeast Atlantic coasts. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the World Meteorological Or...

From space, Earth is a blue planet marked by stark white cloud structures that distinguish it from other planets. By ref lecting sunlight, blocking outgoing longwave radiation, and producing precipitation, clouds have an enormous impact on Earth’s weather and climate. The single largest source of uncertainty in global climate models has always been the response of clouds, especially low clouds,...

T he IPRC played host to the 9th annual meeting of the Scientific Steering Group (SSG) of the SPARC (Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate) program last December. SPARC is one of the six main initiatives of the World Climate Research Programme and focuses on understanding and modeling the circulation and chemistry of the stratosphere, and how these influence and are influenced by tr...

The Hydrology-Meteorology Toolkit is a Tcl/Tk applets library for numerical/graphical processing hydrometeorological data. It uses Tcl/Tk as a basic language. With the Tcl/Tk Plugin installed on the W3 browser side, applets use the HTTP protocol for querying an Oracle database server and managing i/o C programs towards Tcl CGI scripts. 1. The MED-HYCOS project The World Meteorological Organizat...

The Associated Programme on Flood Management (APFM) is a joint initiative of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Global Water Partnership (GWP). It promotes the concept of Integrated Flood Management (IFM) as a new approach to flood management. The programme is financially supported by the governments of Japan, Switzerland and Germany. The World Meteorological Organization is a ...

Abstract. The NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory serves as the World Meteorological Organization Atmosphere Watch (WMO/GAW) Central Calibration (CCL) for CO2 and is responsible maintaining WMO/GAW mole fraction scale used a reference within program. current WMO-CO2-X2007 embodied by 15 aluminum cylinders containing modified natural air, with fractions determined using manometer from 1995 to 2006...

This paper presents the results of an investigation into the utility of remote sensing (RS) using meteorological satellites sensors and spatial interpolation (SI) of data from meteorological stations, for the prediction of spatial variation in monthly climate across continental Africa in 1990. Information from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) of the National Oceanic and Atmo...

global temperature has increased from 13.7 to 14.3 degrees Celsius. The 1990s were, in many respects, the warmest years of the 20th century. Most of the world’s glaciers have receded over the last few decades. The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere—the chief cause of the greenhouse effect—has risen from 280 parts per million (ppm) to 360 ppm since the start of the Industria...