Questionaire

Results:

The WMO Secretariat sent out a questionaire to all the WMO members, 185 countries and territories in all, in the summer of 1999 on the National Meteorological and Hydrological services(NMHSs) involvement in urban issues. By the time of the Beijing Workshop, 79 questionaires had been returned, which is a very sucessful number. From the regions RA II and V a total of 22 questionaires had been received.

The questionaire requested information on the urban activities in general, on meteorological and air quality measurements, modeling, operational or research programs/projects, and twinning/partnerships.

Of the NMHSs that had answered( in parenthesis the percentage for RA II and V)

• 68%(91) are already involved with urban meteorology and air quality activities
• 93%(95) are interested in becoming more involved in urban issues
• 84%(91) are making meteorological measurements
• 86%(82) are interested in setting up meteorological measurements
• 57%(73) are making air quality measurements
• 80%(77) are  interested in setting up air quality measurements
• 40%(36) have modeling capabilities
• 37%(45) have capabilities for air quality forecasts
• 20%(27) give out air quality forecasts on a regular basis
• 20%(41) are twinning/have a partnership with another NMHS
• 60%(55) are interested in twinning with a NMHS to receive advice
• 15%(18) have funded for the twining activitiy

A GURME contact person was identified by each NMHS in the questionaire. This will prove very useful for the implementation of the GURME project. A report on the questionaire will prepared in the Secretariat.