Baron Weather appoints Bob Dreisewerd as new President and CEO, and Sherman Wilcox as Chief Development Officer
Met Office launches climate dashboard
Vaisala's road weather service selected by TomTom
Baron selected for Indonesian weather and water modelling project
Vaisala introduces its next-generation sounding system
Zimbabwe turns to Baron for life-saving weather technology
Vaisala launches new Indigo510 transmitter
Earth Networks and NiMet announce partnership
EEC wins multiple Indonesian weather radar systems contracts
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Kazakhstan has selected Baron Weather, the worldwide leader in critical weather intelligence, to provide cutting-edge radar technology that will serve as the foundation of their weather modernization program. Baron delivered and installed two powerful dual-polarization weather radars and four Baron Lynx Advanced Forecaster Workstations that will improve early warning and forecasting.
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WMO has launched a new web portal to make key meteorological analyses and forecast products more readily accessible. The recent WMO Extraordinary Congress adopted the WMO Unified Policy for the International Exchange of Earth System Data. One of the important outcomes of this decision will be broader and easier access to high-quality analysis and prediction products for Members.
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Record-breaking heat and rainfall, devastating fires and debilitating drought were among the extreme weather, climate and water events of 2021, with human, economic and environmental impacts which will far outlast the calendar year. According to the World Meteorological Organization, the past seven years are on track to be the seven warmest on record.
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Vaisala has published its 2021 Annual Lightning Report. The Vaisala report reveals a total of 194,226,288 in-cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning events in the continental U.S., compared to 170,549,822 in 2020, an increase of 24 million events or 14%.
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The Asia-Pacific Typhoon Collaborative Research Center (AP-TCRC) has been inaugurated in Shanghai, serving as a role model for regional coordination and cooperation in support of disaster risk reduction. It will promote greater research and investigation into a major natural hazard, which every year causes massive loss of life and socio-economic upheaval.
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Climate Change Special Report, Episode 2: the business opportunities of climate change models and analytics. As the world continues to understand the climate crisis, business and other opportunities will arise to provide meaningful solutions. In the second part of our climate change series, we will focus on water and air quality.
As the economic and human impacts of extreme weather and climate change increase, forecasts not just of what the weather will BE, but of what the weather will DO are vital to save lives and livelihoods. As a result, there is a paradigm shift towards impact-based forecasting, driven by the international meteorological and humanitarian community and facilitated by leaps in science and technology.
Biral is to supply 140 of its SWS-050 visibility sensors to Hollandse Kust Zuid, which will be one of the biggest and first fully merchant offshore wind farms in the world. The sensors for this huge project are being used to control the aviation obstruction lights on top of the turbines for its customer Orga BV.
The United States Air Force has selected Baron Weather, Inc, the worldwide leader in critical weather intelligence, to provide a cutting-edge weather radar system and data display technology that will play a vital role in the safety of space launch operations. In 2022, Baron will install a 250-kilowatt Klystron C-band dual-polarization radar at Patrick Space Force Station in Florida.
Sherman Wilcox has been named Chief Development Officer of Baron Weather Inc. Wilcox has been with Baron for nearly 20 years, previously serving as the Software Development Manager where his vision and direction led to the development of many of Baron’s most pioneering software products.
Urgent investment in African weather forecasting aids weather-and climate-resilient future and contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals across the continent: joint paper by the GCRF African SWIFT and ForPAc SHEAR projects.
Activities on capacity building and improvements of early warnings of flash floods – one of the deadliest natural hazards, in South Asia region are advancing with the South Asia Flash Flood Guidance System (SAsiaFFGS) Radar Hydrology Training.
For the first time, a sailboat loaded with dozens of measuring instruments, will sail the Atlantic Ocean to replenish the global Argo profiling floats in hard-to-reach locations. This will contribute to the real-time observation and stewardship of the Ocean, with a minimal carbon footprint.
Met Éireann announced that it is to join forces with national weather services in Denmark, Iceland and the Netherlands, to jointly operate a new supercomputer that will bring significant advancements to short-term weather forecasting.