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Vaisala shares some of the insights their data has provided. You can find out more about lightning around the globe by visiting their fascinating new global total lightning density map. Never before has it been possible to reliably compare lightning on a national basis everywhere.

In this free webinar, experts from Ford UK, NCAR and L3Harris investigate the significance of AVs and the importance of weather data for their operation.

Episode 1 - Sky and Cloud Observation with Ceilometers

The importance of good communications in the Global Weather Enterprise

Investing in resilience – the economic and humanitarian case

Application of smart weather and climate services to increase safety and efficiency of port operations

Business of Weather talks to the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative (SRMGI), an international, NGO-driven project that seeks to expand the global conversation around the governance of climate engineering research

Mistakes that kill your estimates

Helicopter services offshore can be challenging — especially when you’re at the mercy of changing weather conditions. Pilots and helideck operators need real-time, reliable weather and environmental data to make the best decisions that support safety and on-time operations.

WeatherPod Episode 16: WeatherPod interviews Thomas Frei, about the Economics of weather information

ClusterTech co-hosts a live webinar with Pure Storage and NVIDIA.

Vaisala & the Finnish Meteorological Institute: space-based technology

Advanced Automated MET System

Climate research scenarios

Asian Megacities presentation: Towards an Operational Urban Flood Forecasting System

This Technical Note is aimed primarily at professionals in National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs), who are trying to improve the quality and relevance of their services to match their societies’ growing needs for meteorological and hydrological information.

Water and cities; coping with floods, droughts and pollution

Technologies like Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) make our lives more convenient and productive, but did you know they can also interfere with weather observations?

Planning for urban flood resilience through blue, green and grey glasses

WeatherPod Episode 13: Enhancing early warning systems in Africa and Asia

WeatherPod Episode 3: Partnerships in the Global Weather Enterprise

Business of Weather investigates a new tool which could significantly increase the accuracy of tornado forecasting

Cloudburst resiliency: Innovative solutions to heavy rainfall and coastal flooding

Acclimatise's Amanda Rycerz presents the Inter-American Development Bank’s flagship publication “Development in the Americas”

The Royal Society has published a themed issue of its Philosophical Transactions journal addressing “Air Quality, past, present and future”.

Lightning detection for critical urban infrastructure and leisure facilities

WeatherPod Episode 12: Prospects & opportunities for weather & climate services in Africa

Explores the “vitals” for successful public and private engagement. These include open data policies enabling private sector participation with a clear division of roles and responsibilities between sectors, as well as non-restrictive country legislation and legal frameworks.

A Vision for Numerical Weather Prediction in 2030: the inaugural GWE Forum presentation 30 June 2020

Operational irradiance forecasting for advanced PV grid integration in Singapore

Private observations improve operational weather forecasts

Explosive volcanic eruptions produce ash that endangers aviation and infrastructure

WeatherPod Episode 5: In this episode of the WeatherPod, we’ve invited Catalina Jaime, Senior Risk Adviser at the Red Cross-Red Crescent Climate Centre, into the studio.

WeatherPod Episode 8: In this episode WeatherPod, interview Dr. Madeleine Thomson from the Wellcome Trust

Episode 17: WeatherPod interviews Alberto Troccoli MD of WEMC

In 2020, the global energy industry depends on high-quality weather forecasts for critical decision making like never before.

This GWEF webinar explored the issues surrounding open data in the context of weather and climate data and services.

Options for urban flood resilience within Indian cities: Findings from the high level national stakeholder consultation

Business of Weather spoke to the founder, CEO and chairman of Raymetrics, Nikos Kontos, about the company and about pollution monitoring and other applications for LIDAR technology

Delivering Impact and Value - Transforming Hydro Meteorological Services for the Public

Calibration of Cloud Radars with OTT Parsivel² Dr. Stefan Kneifel, Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology University of Cologne Kurt Nemeth, Precipitation Specialist OTT HydroMet

River Flood Assessment Based On Ethno-Geography Perspective on the People at Musi River South Sumatra Province, Indonesia

WeatherPod Episode 9: WeatherPod interviews Rebecca Leonardi, Managing Partner of WX Risk Global.

Vaisala's attention was captured when La Soufrière, a volcano on Saint Vincent in the Lesser Antilles, began a series of explosive eruptions on the morning of April 9, 2021.

Green revetment solutions for riverbank erosion protection

WeatherPod Episode 10: Growing Africa’s science capability for weather prediction

High precision lightning data – Business impact

Part of the SECLI FIRM Summer School.

Topography with high mountains and steep inclinations – albeit are beautiful landscapes – but can add complexity when dealing with wind measurements like direction and speed.

A series of podcasts by Earth Networks dedicated to helping today’s top executives mitigate threats that can threaten their operations

In recent years, national meteorological institutes have expressed more interest in using the descent phase of operational radiosonde soundings.

Business of Weather spoke to Mary Glackin about the challenges that lay ahead for U.S. meteorologists.

WeatherPod Episode 11: WeatherPod interviews Professor Hannah Cloke of Reading University

WeatherPod Episode 23: Predicting the Uncertain World

Lessons Learned from an NWS Director

WeatherPod Episode 20: Public Weather Services, Part 1 - WeatherPod interviews Haleh Kootval

The Kosi Flood Forecasting and Early Warning System

If you're working on a weather-related technology innovation you want to use as the basis of a start-up business, then how can you go about turning your idea into a commercially viable venture?

Gap-filling stations and their role within a Road Weather Information System

Working in partnership to drive global awareness of hazardous and impactful weather.

Business of Weather talks to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), about atmospheric research, public health, and how we might extend the benefits of the Covid-19 lockdown

One of the most striking and persistent climate anomalies of recent years has been the widespread unusual warmth that has affected the North Pacific Ocean.

Risk sensitive land use and infrastructure planning

Sensor-based air quality monitoring: opportunities, impacts and challenges

Information Ecosystem Mapping: Designing Inclusive Weather Forecasting Services for Cities

Investing and trading in the weather derivatives market - Real life examples of using the weather market for benefit

EEC Technology for Hydrometeorological Applications: Weather Radar and QPE

FREE WEBINAR. Now available on demand.

This webinar investigated the potentially devastating challenges facing the aquaculture industry and highlighted the business opportunities of helping to manage and mitigate these threats.

Isn’t Good Air Quality a Human Right? Challenging air conditions exist globally, with particular problem areas in Asia. In this webinar, we’ll outline how businesses, NGOs, and scientists are working to solve this noxious problem. Now available on demand

Urban Flooding and Threats to Sustainable Development: A Study of Srinagar and Chennai Floods.

WeatherPod Episode 2. Co-presenters Alan Thorpe and David Rogers talk to hugely experienced broadcast meteorologist, Gerald Fleming

How Ground Based Doppler Lidar improves Weather Observations and Forecasts

Development of a riverflow forecasting system with minimum requirements

On demand Let’s talk about what’s missing in port and coastal monitoring weather measurements.

A value chain of activities of the public, private and academic sectors providing accurate, reliable and timely weather and climate related information

Business of Weather speaks to the co-founder of Shipped by Sail, a novel shipping broker using sailing ships to transport cargo

For insurers and reinsurers, it is a real focus to understand and evaluate extreme weather and climate risks now and into the future by using advanced risk modelling

WeatherPod Episode 15: Building urban resilience to compound extreme weather events and risks

A tale of two revolutionary changes: Urbanization and advances in high-resolution hydro-meteorological forecasts

WeatherPod Episode 21: Public Weather Services Part 2. Discussion with Haleh Kootval, Gerald Fleming and Kevin O’Loughlin

WeatherPod Episode 18: The WeatherPod Special Report – Key issues facing the Global Weather Enterprise

The threats & challenges facing public health from extreme weather & climate change, and the potential opportunities for business, academia and the public sector to help mitigate and manage them.

IMPACT investing to balance financial return and social good by solving weather related issues for NGOs, foundations, non-profits, governments and philanthropies

Environmental Intelligence platform for odour and air quality management of smart cities

Air pollution, public health and changing weather

WeatherPod Episode 24: WeatherPod meets Paul Davies, Chief Meteorologist and Principal Research Fellow of the UK Met Office

Automated meteorological observation process – benefits for the societal output of meteorological organizations

Communication with the individual supporters for operational weather forecasting

A unique integrated solution to support wind shear detection for aviation in all types of weather conditions

Digital transformation of flood warnings. Making critical information available at the right time to the right people in the right way

WeatherPod Episode 14: Machine learning and artificial intelligence in weather and climate research

Integrating stakeholder knowledge domains to improve urban flood resilience

Collaborative digital workflows for integrated flood management

Urban haze and photovoltaics

Multi-hazard Early Warning System initiatives in Indonesia.

Evacuate if you are told to

Business of Weather talks to Dimitar Ivanov, the Director of Public-Private Engagement at the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)

Benefits of Lightning Information as a service

Business of Weather talks to Louise van Schaik who heads up the Planetary Security Initiative which was launched in 2015 by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs to research new approaches to reducing climate-related risks to conflict and stability

Prediction of summer rainfall over the source region of the Blue Nile

On February 21, an Alaska Airlines flight from Juneau, Alaska, to Sitka, Alaska was struck by lightning as it descended into Sitka.

Recent Advances in Air Quality Modelling in Australia

WeatherPod Episode 22: Perspectives from early career scientists on the evolution of the Global Weather Enterprise

InterMET Asia 2019 panel discussion: Public sector - Commercial Services?

Next generation real-time hydrologic monitoring standard for increased reliability and accuracy of flood warning data

Severe weather impacts on ground and flight operations and the application of innovative observing systems for risk reduction.

Balancing resolution and latency

A full life-cycle IT approach for flood management

The latest webinar in our series on the business opportunities of extreme weather & climate change focuses on the value of Artificial Intelligence (or AI) to the application of weather data.

WeatherPod Episode 4: A discussion on the operation of a national meteorological service as a commercial enterprise.

Data sharing – Incentive-based data exchange

To complement the Annual Lightning Report, here are some of the big lightning stories you may have missed last year.

WeatherPod Episode 7: Forging a successful European partnership at ECMWF

WeatherPod Episode 6: A view from the Central Institute of Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG), which is Austria’s national meteorological & hydrological service.

Experience of global small sensor co-location comparison studies and applications

Business of Weather talks to Dr. Jan Dutton, serial weather business entrepreneur and CEO of Prescient Weather Ltd., about setting up a weather-based business startup

Three part Mini-series. Episode 1: The business opportunities of detecting & monitoring climate change

WeatherPod Episode 19: WeatherPod Special for Asia Climate Forum 2022

WMO Open Consultative Platform (OCP) Innovation Seminar - 3 July 2020

In the autumn of 2020, Unu Mondo Expedition delivered and installed three units of Vaisala Automatic Weather Stations to measure wind and air temperature in Greenland.

The latest free webinar in our series on the business opportunities of extreme weather & climate change focuses on the challenges - and opportunities - facing people who have left the public and academic sectors to set up a weather business.

Changing the game of flood fighting

The impact of of flooding on mosquito surveillance and control

Planning for flooding within a city water resilience framework.

Effective early warning systems for building resilience to flood hazard: Challenges and opportunities

Winter services save lives. In a pilot project, Technical Services Offenburg (TBO) show how their database can be improved with little effort.

The opportunities to build resilience in urban and rural communities.

WeatherPod Episode 1: Co-operation between the public, private and academic sectors is crucial to the effective use of weather & climate data

Continuous temperature and humidity profiles from lidar. A powerful tool towards robust weather forecasting

WMO 68th Executive Council - a speaker's personal view

‘Blue labelling’ to highlight weather related flood risks

Climate Change Special Report: Episode 2 - the business opportunities of climate change models and analytics.