{"id":3875,"date":"2023-03-07T08:55:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T03:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3875"},"modified":"2025-03-26T19:57:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T14:27:26","slug":"world-meteorological-organisation-wmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/world-meteorological-organisation-wmo\/","title":{"rendered":"World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About World Meteorological Organisation (WMO):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>specialized agency of the United Nations <\/strong>(UN).<\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>UN system&#8217;s authoritative voice<\/strong> <strong>on<\/strong> the state and behavior of the <strong>Earth&#8217;s atmosphere<\/strong>, its interaction with the <strong>oceans<\/strong>, the <strong>climate<\/strong> it produces, and the resulting <strong>distribution of<\/strong> <strong>water resources<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>originated from the International Meteorological Organization (IMO<\/strong>), which was founded in 1873.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Established in 1950<\/strong>, <strong>WMO became the specialized agency<\/strong> of the UN <strong>for meteorology<\/strong> (weather and climate), <strong>operational hydrology<\/strong> and <strong>related geophysical sciences.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarters:\u00a0 Geneva<\/strong>, Switzerland.<\/li>\n<li>Currently it has a <strong>membership of 187 countries<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Governance Structure:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Its <strong>supreme body<\/strong> is the <strong>World Meteorological Congress<\/strong>, which <strong>consists of representatives of all members<\/strong>. It <strong>meets<\/strong> at least <strong>every four years<\/strong> to <strong>set general policy <\/strong>and adopt regulations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A 36-member Executive Council<\/strong> meets annually and <strong>implements policy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Secretariat<\/strong>, <strong>headed by<\/strong> a <strong>secretary-general<\/strong> appointed by the congress for a four-year term, <strong>serves as the administrative centre of the organization<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Six regional associations<\/strong> address problems peculiar to their regions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eight technical commissions<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Major Programmes<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>World Weather Watch<\/strong>: A system of satellites and telecommunication networks connecting land and sea sites for monitoring weather conditions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>World Climate Programme<\/strong>: It monitors climate change, including global warming.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Atmospheric Research and Environment Programme<\/strong>: Designed to promote research on issues such as ozone depletion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1)\u00a0What is meant by meteorology?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Meteorology is the study of the processes in the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere that cause particular weather conditions, especially in order to predict the weather.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/un-takes-step-towards-new-way-of-tracking-greenhouse-gases\/article66587986.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>U.N. takes step towards new way of tracking greenhouse gases<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established in 1950.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}