GENEVA / WMO POLAR PREDICTION

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) launched Monday the Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) - a coordinated international campaign aiming to close the current gaps in polar forecasting capacity with an emphasis on disaster risk reduction. UNTV CH

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:47
• Production Date: 15 May 2017
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION - WMO
• Subject Topical: CLIMATE CHANGE
• MAMS Id: 1886677
• Parent Id: 1886677
• Alternate Title: unifeed170515b

Description

STORY: GENEVA / WMO POLAR PREDICTION
TRT: 1:47
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 15 MAY 2017 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, exterior, Flag alley of the Palais des Nations
2. Wide shot, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Paolo Ruti, Chief of WMO’s Weather Research Programme:
“We are lacking in terms of knowledge of processes in the Arctic and Antarctica and how the ocean and the atmosphere, they are, in an interactive dialogue together. And we are lacking in terms of observations.”
4. Close up, WMO programme pamphlets
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Thomas Jung, Chair of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), Professor Alfred-Wegener Helmholtz-Centre for Polar and Marine Research:
“The purpose of the Year of Polar Prediction is really an international programme bringing a huge community together. And the purpose is to increase our capacity to predict . And it’s our capacity to predict not just climate, but predict weather from Day One all the way over seasons and to climate change.”
7. Close up, journalist
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Thomas Jung, Chair of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), Professor Alfred-Wegener Helmholtz-Centre for Polar and Marine Research:
“One of the main purposes is disaster-risk reduction. I mean there is lots of business going on in high latitudes in the Southern hemisphere primarily research and tourism playing an important role in the Arctic as well but their income is shipping and other activities as well. It is about reducing the risk of disaster and also developing capacity to manage when disaster strikes.”
9. Med shot, journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Celeste Saolo, Head of Argentina’s National Meteorological Service:
“The climate is changing. This is impacting our people. This is impacting other latitudes, close to the areas where more people are living and we need to understand much better which are the connections between these changes that are happening in Antarctica and the weather that we feel in the rest of the world.”
11. Close up, journalist writing
12. Close up, journalist

Storyline

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) launched Monday (15 May) the Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) - a coordinated international campaign aiming to close the current gaps in polar forecasting capacity with an emphasis on disaster risk reduction.

Paolo Ruti, the Chief of WMO’s Weather Research Programme noted that there is a dearth “in terms of knowledge of processes in the Arctic and Antarctica”and that “we are lacking in terms of observations.”

The dramatic changes in weather, climate and ice conditions at the poles are leading to increased human activity which come with its own share of risks to both the environment and society, including indigenous livelihoods.

The YOPP is scheduled to take place from mid-2017 to mid-2019,

Thomas Jung, Chair of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and Professor at the Alfred-Wegener Helmholtz-Centre for Polar and Marine Research says that “one of the main purposes (of the YOPP) is disaster-risk reduction. There is lots of business going on in high latitudes in the Southern hemisphere primarily research and tourism playing an important role in the Arctic as well but their income is shipping and other activities as well. It is about reducing the risk of disaster and also developing capacity to manage when disaster strikes.”

The impact of global warming on the polar regions are felt in other parts of the globe in terms of rising sea levels and changing weather and climate patterns. Weather balloon launches from meteorological stations, coordinated aircraft campaigns and satellite missions will be carried out and new automatic weather stations will be installed at different polar locations in an effort to strengthen our understanding of the Arctic and Antarctic and provide better observational and predictive systems for the future.

Celeste Saolo, Head of Argentina’s National Meteorological Service observed that “the climate is changing. This is impacting our people. This is impacting other latitudes, close to the areas where more people are living and we need to understand much better which are the connections between these changes that are happening in Antarctica and the weather that we feel in the rest of the world.”