The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) began providing supercomputer-produced weather information to Afghanistan earlier this month. As Afghanistan recently requested weather forecast data for ten of its cities, the KMA decided to offer the information online at its website (http://www.kma.go.kr/ema/nema03/).
These new additions bring to 358 the number of cities, spread across 30 countries, including Afghanistan, that receive numerical weather information from the KMA. Twenty Asian nations, including 14 cities in Bangladesh, 22 in Cambodia, 18 in Kazakhstan, 20 in Pakistan, 19 in Thailand and 30 in Oman, now receive such information, while 10 African countries, including nine cities in Sudan, 10 in Ethiopia, nine in Uganda, 13 in Kenya, and 13 in Tanzania also use data from the KMA.
As the KMA is garnering more and more recognition, earlier this year Vietnam, the Philippines and Qatar have also asked for KMA-produced weather models. With many Asian and African nations vulnerable to natural disasters, since 2006 the KMA has been providing numerical weather forecast data for major cities in those regions as part of a joint assistance project organized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Recently, the KMA expanded its support to training weather forecast professionals and to education about how to manage and use prediction models.
By Limb Jae-un
Korea.net Staff Writer
jun2@korea.kr
The KMA provides supercomputer-produced weather forecast data at its website. (http://www.kma.go.kr/ema/nema03/).
These new additions bring to 358 the number of cities, spread across 30 countries, including Afghanistan, that receive numerical weather information from the KMA. Twenty Asian nations, including 14 cities in Bangladesh, 22 in Cambodia, 18 in Kazakhstan, 20 in Pakistan, 19 in Thailand and 30 in Oman, now receive such information, while 10 African countries, including nine cities in Sudan, 10 in Ethiopia, nine in Uganda, 13 in Kenya, and 13 in Tanzania also use data from the KMA.
As the KMA is garnering more and more recognition, earlier this year Vietnam, the Philippines and Qatar have also asked for KMA-produced weather models. With many Asian and African nations vulnerable to natural disasters, since 2006 the KMA has been providing numerical weather forecast data for major cities in those regions as part of a joint assistance project organized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Recently, the KMA expanded its support to training weather forecast professionals and to education about how to manage and use prediction models.
The KMA provides numerical weather forecast information for 358 cities in 30 nations around the world.
By Limb Jae-un
Korea.net Staff Writer
jun2@korea.kr
