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World Meteorological Organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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Reviewing the year's activities, the annual report of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) for 1957 stated that WMO technical assistance to underdeveloped countries had reached a new high in number of national weather services aided and number of experts sent to the countries. WMO provided experts or granted fellowships to 26 countries or territories during the year, under the UN Expanded Program of Technical Assistance, and sent instruments and equipment used in weather reporting and forecasting in connection with technical assistance missions to Afghanistan, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Iceland, Nicaragua, Sudan, and Uruguay. During this period 24 fellowships were awarded for advanced training of personnel in weather forecasting, tropical meteorology, hurricane forecasting, maritime meteorology, and aerology.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: II. Specialized Agencies
Information
International Organization , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , Summer 1958 , pp. 394 - 395
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1958

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References

1 UN Press Release WMO/61. May 12, 1958.

2 WMO Bulletin, 04 1958 (Vol. 7, No. 2), P. 59–62Google Scholar.

3 Ibid., p. 68.

4 Ibid.

5 Ibid., p. 69–74.

6 Ibid., p. 62–63.

7 Ibid., p. 91–92.

8 Ibid., p. 91.