Prediction of meningococcal meningitis incidence trend in Burkina Faso and Niger for year 2013

It’s available in Afrimet’ files the prediction of meningococcal meningitis incidence trend in Burkina Faso and Niger for year 2013 prepared by the Working Group on Climate and Health from Burkina. Find the English version and French version.

Prediction of meningococcal meningitis

More information on the method of work here.

METAGRI project evaluation seminar. Dakar, December 14, 2012

On the past 13th and 14th December, they have been held in Dakar a workshop on improving relations between meteorological services and media, and an evaluation workshop of the METAGRI OPERATIONAL project which was attended by the focal points of the fifteen participating countries

METAGRI project evaluation  seminar

Presentations and documents are available in the files archive Afrimet 

Archive

II Lectures on Atmospheric Mineral Dust. Barcelona, November 5-9th 2012.

The II Lectures on Atmospheric Mineral Dust were held in Barcelona, organized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), EUMETSAT, the Spanish State Meteorological Agency (AEMET), the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) and the Catalonia Technical University (UPC) and coordinated by the Regional Center for Northern Africa, Middle East and Europe of the WMO SDS-WAS programme.

The organization invited one participant from Gambia Department of Water Resources, choosen among the members of Afrimet Conference.

METAGRI project evaluation  seminar

Presentations and documents are available at Regional Center for Northern Africa, Middle East and Europe of the WMO SDS-WAS programme

SDS-WAS Information

Preparations for the 5th AFRIMET Conference, Madrid 2012. Useful information

The fifth meeting of the AFRIMET Directors Conference will take place in Boadilla del Monte, some 17 Km to the city of Madrid, among 22th and 24th October 2012

MARINEMET: New equipment installed

The combined Tide Gauges and Automatic Weather Stations, and the independent Automatic Weather Stations (AWSs) planned in the last phase of the MARINEMET Pilot Project (http://afrimet.aemet.es/afrimet_old/marinemet/en/documents/doc_download) have been acquired and installed (SUTRON corporation) in the beneficiary countries:

 

Tide gauges + AWSs

Independent 
AWSs

Senegal

 

1 fixed platform tide station measuring sea level and agitation and AWS

1 standard tide station and AWS

0

Mauritania

1 standard tide station and AWS

2

Cape Vert

 

1 fixed platform tide station measuring sea level and agitation and AWS

1 standard tide station and AWS

1

The Gambia

1 standard tide station and AWS

1

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