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VACANCY NOTICE NO: 2250 DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: 12 July 2023 26 day(s) until closing deadline - Currently accepting applications POST DevOps Engineer (Scientific Officer) GRADE P3 DUTY STATION Geneva, Switzerland COMMENCEMENT OF DUTY To be determined NATURE OF APPOINTMENT Fixed-term - 2 years ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT Member Platform Unit, Data and Information Management (DIM) Division, WMO Information System (WIS) Branch Infrastructure Department WMO is committed to achieving diversity and a balanced workforce. Applications are welcome from qualified women and men, including those with disabilities. The statutory retirement age after 1 January 2014 is 65. For external applicants, only those who are expected to complete the term of appointment will normally be considered. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES We are a group of engineers building and operating web-based services to facilitate world-wide data and information exchange. Visit our GitHub space (https://github.com/wmo-im) for more information about what we do. We want to strengthen our DevOps capabilities to support various projects related to Python, Docker and cloud based API and web-development. Under the overall guidance of the Head, Data and Information Management (H/DIM) Division, WMO Information System (WIS) Branch, Infrastructure Department, and the direct supervision of the Member Platform Lead, the incumbent will perform the following duties: (a) Lead the development and operation of WDQMS, a Python, PostGIS and Kub...

Geneva, 27 May 2021 (WMO) - There is about a 40% chance of the annual average global temperature temporarily reaching 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level in at least one of the next five years – and these odds are increasing with time, according to a new climate update issued by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). There is a 90% likelihood of at least one year between 2021-2025 becoming the warmest on record, which would dislodge 2016 from the top ranking, according to Over 2021-2025, high-latitude regions and the Sahel are likely to be wetter and there is an increased chance of more tropical cyclones in the Atlantic compared to the recent past (defined as the 1981-2010 average). The annual update harnesses the expertise of internationally acclaimed climate scientists and the best prediction systems from leading climate centres around the world to produce actionable information for decision-makers. “These are more than just statistics,” said WMO Secretary-General Prof. Petteri Taalas. “Increasing temperatures mean more melting ice, higher sea levels, more heatwaves and other extreme weather, and greater impacts on food security, health, the environment and sustainable development,” he said. “This study shows – with a high level of scientific skill – that we are getting measurably and inexorably closer to the lower target of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. It is yet another wakeup call that the world needs to fast-track commitments to slash greenhouse gas e...

The United Nations system, including the WMO, is working together to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in this time of crisis. In addition, WMO has engaged with National Meteorological and Hydrological Services to help alleviate the impacts of the social distancing requirements for COVID-19 on the issuing of life-saving early warnings for weather, climate and water-related hazards to populations at risk.

Welcome to the WMO Global Weather & Climate Extremes Map. In 2006, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Commission for Climatology (CCl) WMO OPAG 2 group unanimously agreed to the creation of a world archive for verifying, certifying and storing world weather extremes. This map lets you view extreme weather information curated by the WMO. INTERACTING WITH THE MAP Click on any point on the map to view a poup with information about that point. You can also click on the links in the "For More Information" section in each popup to view the complete data for that record. TURNING ON/OFF LAYERS Click on the checkboxes on the right side of the window to hide and show categories of information. You can also use the Zoom to Region button on the right side of the window to zoom in to various geographies. GOING BACK TO THE MAIN WEBSITE Click on the Back button in your web browser or click on the Back to WMO website button on the lower part of the map, to navigate back to the WMO Climate Extremes website. World High Temperature World Low Temperature Hemisphere High Temperature Hemisphere Low Temperature Continental High Temperature Continental Low Temperature World High Temperature World Low Temperature High Pressure Low Pressure World High Rainfall Hemisphere High Rainfall Continental High Rainfall Continental Low Rainfall Hail Aridity Wind Tornado Northern Hemisphere Cyclone Southern Hemisphere Cyclone Significant Wave Height Lightning

WMO Glacier melt The average thickness of the world’s glaciers has plummeted by almost 30 metres since 1970. “The cryosphere issue is a hot topic not just for the Arctic and Antarctic, but it is a global issue,” said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas. The irreversible changes in the global cryosphere will affect well over a billion people who rely on water from snow and glacier melt, WMO said. ‘Sleeping giant’ of carbon emissions The agency also called melting Arctic permafrost a “sleeping giant” of greenhouse gases, as it stores twice as much carbon as there is in the atmosphere today. WMO said it has made this burning issue one of its top priorities and called for better predictions and intensified research, data exchange and investment. Sea level rise, ice and glaciers are among the climate indicators monitored by WMO and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( So-called “reference glaciers” which WMO is monitoring in the long-term, experienced an average thickness change of over −1.3 metres between October 2021 and October 2022. This loss is much larger than the average of the last decade, the agency said. Alpine record The European Alps smashed records for glacier melt, exacerbated by a winter of little snow: in Switzerland, six per cent of the glacier ice volume was lost between 2021 and 2022 – and one third between 2001 and 2022. The Greenland Ice Sheet ended with a negative total mass balance for the 26 th year in a row. Sea ice in Antarctica dropped to ...

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