WMO World Meteorological Organization [to 23 January 2016]
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19 January 2016
WMO Renews Call for New Images for International Cloud Atlas
The World Meteorological Organization is issuing another call for the submission of high quality photographs of clouds to feature as “reference images” in the next edition of the International Cloud Atlas.
The aim is to produce a user-friendly, digital-based product, which is an authoritative, comprehensive and up-to-date source of reference and is also interesting and accessible to a wide audience. It will also include new types of cloud.

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13 January 2016
Jason-3 satellite to monitor oceans
The Jason-3 satellite was launched Sunday evening, 17 January, from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, United States of America. Jason-3 will continue the time series of mean sea-level measurements that started in 1992 with the launch of the Topex-Poseidon satellite and continued with Jason-1 and -2.

The satellite’s measurements of ocean waves and ocean surface topography will provide essential input to numerical forecasts of sea state and ocean currents and to other applications in the areas of marine meteorology and operational oceanography. Measurements will also be used in numerical prediction models that couple the atmosphere and the oceans and are used for seasonal forecasting.