{"id":323074,"date":"2025-01-11T15:14:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T09:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=323074"},"modified":"2025-01-11T15:14:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T09:44:27","slug":"world-meteorological-organization-wmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/world-meteorological-organization-wmo\/","title":{"rendered":"World Meteorological Organization (WMO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong>: The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has declared 2024 as the warmest year on record, according to six international datasets.<\/p>\n<h2>About World Meteorological Organization (WMO)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a key UN specialized agency dedicated to meteorology, operational hydrology, and related geophysical sciences.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarters<\/strong>: Geneva, Switzerland.<\/li>\n<li><strong>History &amp; Origin:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Founded in 1950<\/strong>: As a specialized agency of the UN for meteorology, climate, hydrology, and related fields.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Originated from the International Meteorological Organization (IMO) <\/strong>which was established in 1873, which laid the foundation for WMO\u2019s creation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Main Goals<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>International Cooperation<\/strong>: Facilitate collaboration in meteorology, weather, climate, hydrology, and environmental fields.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exchange of Information<\/strong>: Promote the sharing of data, technologies, and expertise to better understand the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere and water resources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Governance Structure:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>World Meteorological Congress<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The <em>supreme body of WMO,<\/em> consisting of representatives from all member countries.<\/li>\n<li><em>Meets at least every four years<\/em> to set policies and adopt regulations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Executive Council<\/strong>: A 36-member body that implements WMO\u2019s policies and meets annually.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secretariat<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Managed by the<em> Secretary-General<\/em>, who is appointed by the Congress for a four-year term.<\/li>\n<li>The Secretariat is the administrative center for WMO.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Members<\/strong>: WMO has 193 Members, including 187 Member States and 6 Territories, each with their own meteorological services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has declared 2024 as the warmest year on record, according to six international datasets. About World Meteorological Organization (WMO) It is a key UN specialized agency dedicated to meteorology, operational hydrology, and related geophysical sciences. Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland. History &amp; Origin: Founded in 1950: As a specialized agency of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/world-meteorological-organization-wmo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World Meteorological Organization (WMO)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1236,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-323074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-organisations","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}