WIMEA News
The Uganda National Meteorological Authority (UNMA) invited the WIMEA-ICT Project to a one-day hands-on training on the Weather Data Repository (WDR) and Weather Information Dissemination System (WIDS) to improve staff skills in data and dissemination of weather information. This training was carried out at UNMA on the 19th […]
WIMEA ICT presents the Dissemination system, Data Repository, Rain gauge redesign and AWS monitoring System to Uganda National Meteorological Authority. On 10th August 2017 student teams doing internship with the WIMEA-ICT project made presentations to a team of Directors, meteorologists and Engineers from Uganda National Meteorological Authority (UNMA). The presentations focused on additional functionality to […]
On the 21st of March 2017, WIMEA team embraced the World Meteorological Day on a theme entitled “Understanding the clouds” at Bugema University. Exhibitions about the project and different activities were presented to the Stakeholders and they were amazed at the direction the Project is taking and how beneficial it will be to the country […]
Location to install the AWS prototype ready for benchmarking, On March 5, WIMEAICT Project visited the JNIA weather station, at the airport for purposes of inspecting the site to be installed with AWS prototype ready for benchmarking. Some of the observations made were: The AWOS (Automatic Weather Observation System) is not functioning and so they are […]
On March 11, 2016, Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology Implementation Team made a presentation at the Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA) of what has been observed when going through TMA systems and recommendations of the desired Weather Data Repository. Three presenters from DIT: Dr Joseph Matiko and Daudi Mboma were made on the Requirement Analysis […]
“Hotter, Drier, Wetter — Face the Future” The World Meteorology Day is an annual event normally celebrated along with the World Water Day and the World Forest Day. The theme of these celebrations was “Hotter, Drier, Wetter-Face the Future”. These celebrations took place on March 22, 2016 in Serere district at Serere Township Primary School. […]
I n December 2015, the WIMEA-ICT project set up a new teaching lab (the former GIS lab in block B), at the College of Computing and Information Sciences, Makerere University. This new teaching lab is a breath of fresh air as opposed to the challenges of shortage of and outdated computers, and over-crowding in the […]
I saac Mugume, a PhD student sponsored by the WIMEA-ICT project participated in the Consortium for Small-scale Modeling (COSMO) training that took place in Germany from February 14-23, 2016. His study research is mainly on Numerical Weather Predications. COSMO is a Numerical Weather and Climate Model used operationally at the Germany Weather Service and. It […]
T he Benadir University signed an MoU with the WIMEA-ICT project at the Annual General Meeting in December 2015 in Bergen. The areas of cooperation agreed upon include (but are not limited to): a) Joint capacity building, development and support activites; b) Joint research and development (R&D) activities and programmes c) Exchange of research results […]