WWW

World Weather Watch Program


Type of Structure: network / framework activity
Regional Scope: global
Parent Organisations: WMO.UN
Child Organisations:
Duration : 1963 to present
Contact Address: no office contact defined


General information and objectives

To predict the weather, modern meteorology depends upon near instantaneous exchange of weather information across the entire globe.

The World Weather Watch (WWW), the core of the WMO Programmes, combines observing systems, telecommunication facilities, and data-processing and forecasting centres - operated by Members - to make available meteorological and related geophysical information needed to provide efficient services in all countries.

The WWW is a unique achievement in international cooperation:  in few other fields of human endeavour, and particularly in science and technology, is there - or has there ever been - such a truly world-wide operational system to which virtually every country in the world contributes, every day of every year, for the common benefit of mankind.

Through the WWW Programmes WMO Members coordinate and implement standardization of measuring methods and techniques, common telecommunication procedures, and the presentation of observed data and processed information in a manner which is understood by all, regardless of language. 

These arrangements, as well as the operation of the WWW facilities, are coordinated and monitored by WMO with a view to ensuring that every country has available all of the information it needs to provide weather services on a day-to-day basis as well as for long-term planning and research. 

An increasingly important part of the WWW Programme provides support for developing international programmes related to global climate and other environmental issues, and to sustainable development.


Last update: 5/6/22
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)

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