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.
Presentations and documents are available at Regional Center for Northern Africa, Middle East and Europe of the WMO SDS-WAS programme
SDS-WAS 
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:
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Tide gauges + AWSs |
Independent |
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Senegal |
1 fixed platform tide station measuring sea level and agitation and AWS 1 standard tide station and AWS |
0 |
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Mauritania |
1 standard tide station and AWS |
2 |
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Cape Vert |
1 fixed platform tide station measuring sea level and agitation and AWS 1 standard tide station and AWS |
1 |
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The Gambia |
1 standard tide station and AWS |
1 |
Two new documents available at AFRIMET’s files
The following presentations by Dr. Pascal YAKA Burkina Faso, regional expert of Healthmet project, are available from our archive:
"Climate, Environment and Health: What are the Relationships Between Climate and meningitis? How Could We use climate data to predict meningitis Epidemics? ", public lecture at the University of Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
"Opportunities and Constraints Seasonal Rainfall Forecast for application to agricultural decisions in Burkina Faso", presentation at the international workshop on seasonal forecasts and their application to rural world, University of Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, May 2012.
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