The World Meteorological Organization’s Statement on the Status of the Global Climate says that 2012 joined the ten previous years as one of the warmest — at ninth place — on record despite the cooling influence of a La Niña episode early in the year.

During the past two weeks the National Meteorological Services of North and Central America and the Caribbean met in Curaçao to discuss matters of common interest, including preparation for the upcoming hurricane season.

The Netherlands’ Address at the High-level Meeting on National Drought Policy (HMNDP), Geneva, 11 – 15 March, 2013.

All year round KNMI is working for the Netherlands. Measurements, weather and climate modelling, climate advice and data. KNMI's annual report 2011 shows a series of activities and operations performed by our institute last year.

As a member of the World Meteorological Organization and the United Kingdom's national weather service, the UK’s Met Office is playing an important role in support of London 2012, which is the biggest event the country has ever hosted.

KNMI organizes together with the consortia of the Knowledge for Climate research programme, an Autumn School about Dealing with uncertainties in research for climate adaptation

KNMI is an institute where we are working all year round, seven days a week, 24 hours a day. In the Annual Report 2010 entitled 'KNMI round the clock' we show what is going on in one day at KNMI. After all, weather forecasts don’t stop at night, climate research is going on all time long ...

The year 2010 ranked as the warmest year on record, together with 2005 and 1998, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Data received by the WMO show no statistically significant difference between global temperatures in 2010, 2005 and 1998.

In the KNMI Triennial Scientific Report 2007-2009 an overview is presented of the research activities carried out by KNMI in this period.In its capacity as the national knowledge and data centre for weather, climate and seismology, KNMI performs many research activities on these subjects ...

'KNMI in international context' has been chosen as the theme for its Annual report 2009. Meteorology does not stop at national borders, nor does climate research, satellite measurements and seismology. International cooperation is necessary for the KNMI to perform its duties as the ...

A study published on 17 October 2010 in the journal Nature Geoscience shows that over the past three decades, surface wind speeds seem to have noticeably decreased in several regions of the world, such as the United States, China, Australia, and in several European countries ...

International efforts to protect the ozone layer—the shield that protects life on Earth from harmful levels of ultraviolet rays—are a success and have stopped additional ozone losses and contributed to mitigating the greenhouse effect, according to a new report.

Reanalysis of surface synoptic weather observations, using methods developed for weather prediction, complements traditional monthly climatological records for documenting climate variability and change.

The amendments to the Convention of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) entered into force on 6 June 2010. This is a milestone in ECMWF’s history as it allows an enlargement of ECMWF’s membership and an expansion of the scope of its activities.

The advanced scatterometer, ASCAT, on the MetOp-A polar satellite senses the oil spill area with microwaves. The images below show the ASCAT winds (left) and a false-colour RGB image (right) made from the basic ASCAT measurements. In the RGB images a dark spot right above the middle is visible, ...