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Enhancing Meteorological Services in Kenya: KMD Activities & Future Plans

Explore the current operational centers of Kenya Meteorological Department (KMD) in Nairobi, providing weather forecasts and instrument calibration services. Learn about the ongoing initiatives to modernize the Regional Instrument Centre (RIC) and implement an Integrated Meteorological Information System (IMIS) for enhanced data management. Discover the potential of enhanced Climsoft capabilities and the essential requirements for advancing meteorological activities in the sub-region.

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Enhancing Meteorological Services in Kenya: KMD Activities & Future Plans

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  1. WIS ACTIVITIES IN KENYA METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT (KMD) Samuel M. Machua CBS ET-WISC

  2. CURRENT OPERATIONAL CENTRES NORMINATION DCPCs KMD IMIS CLIMSOFT ENHANCED ACTIVITIES WHAT IS REQUIRED IN THE SUB REGION CBS ET-WISC

  3. Regional Telecommunications Hub - RTH Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre -RSMC Regional Instrument Calibration Centre - RIC CURRENT OPERATIONALCENTRES - List CBS ET-WISC

  4. RTH - Nairobi CBS ET-WISC

  5. RSMC Nairobi Provides national weather services, runs NWP Limited Area Models and posts the products into the KMD websites twice daily CURRENT OPERATIONALCENTRES Functions • FORECAST PRODUCTS • Today's Weather Forecast • Four Day Forecast • Seven Day Forecast • MonthlyForecast • NWP Forecast • WRF Model Forecast • HRM Model Forecast • Agromet latest dekadal Bulletin • EL NINO Update • Archived Forecasts CBS ET-WISC

  6. RIC Nairobi Calibrates instruments for national and sub regional use. It also manufactures instruments such as rain gauges and Stevenson screens Through the cost sharing effort of Finland VCP (through WMO) and the Government of Kenya , KMD will modernize the WMO Regional Instrument Centre (RIC) by installing the following:  Chamber for Calibration of humidity and temperature;  Stirred liquid oil bath for the calibration of thermometers and AWS temperature sensors;  Resistance measuring bridge for the calibration of AWS temperature sensors and references;  Wind Tunnel for calibration of wind instruments. CURRENT OPERATIONALCENTRES Functions CBS ET-WISC

  7. 3 CENTRES NORMINATED AS DCPCs RTH RSMC RIC KMD IMIS In the process of acquiring an Integrated Meteorological Information System - IMIS Dedicated to ingest, manage, archive, give on-line access and process any kind of Meteorological data WIS compliant Implementation contract awarded Funds allocated by Kenya Government in the financial year 2009/2010 To be implemented once funds are released ENCHANCED CLIMSOFT CAPABILITY Capability to produce metadata, data inventories and many other data products in XML format WIS ACTIVITIES IN KMD CBS ET-WISC

  8. ENHANCED CLIMSOFT CAPABILITIES CBS ET-WISC

  9. Not yet gained much momentum. More is required on; Capacity building Improvement of communications facilities Improved message switching systems Bandwidths expansions WIS ACTIVITIES IN SUB REGION - SUMMARY CBS ET-WISC

  10. END CBS ET-WISC

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