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Wednesday, April 22, 2015 1 Slide 2 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 2 Slide 3 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 3 1839: Met. Observation Started 1900: Organizing of the first Met.Service. 1934: Met.Services had been started in the field of Civil Aviation safety 1947:Royal order to establish an independent organization 1971:The Recent EMA Historical Review Slide 4 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 4 CHAIRMAN Central Admin. Of FCST Airports Dir RSMC. Dir. Computer Dir. Central Admin. Of Instruments Station Net Dir. Instrument Dir. Military. Met. Dir. Central Admin. Of Research Climate Dir. Research Dir. Central Admin. Of Finance HR Dir. Finance Dir. International Affairs Public RelationQuality & Inspection Others Central Admin. Of RTC/Cairo Special Dir. Tech. Dir. Exam & Prog. Dir. Slide 5 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 5 EMA Meteorologists 230 Met. Technicians 800 Engineers 6 Assist. Engineers 107 Librarians 5 Lawyers 13 Accountants 49 Tech. 113 Clerks & Secretary 284 Security 3 Others 390 TOTAL 2000 Slide 6 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 6 Slide 7 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 7 Regional Centers In Cairo RIC1965 Ozone1973 RSMC 1976 RTH1968 RTC1968 Radiation1972 Calibration Forecasting Telecommunications Training Slide 8 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 8 Synoptic Stations 45 stations 1st observation 1906 El Nadorah Slide 9 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 9 Aeronautical Stations 25 stations 1st observation March.1926Almazah Slide 10 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 10 Offshore Stations 9 stations + 7 stations in Naser Lake Naser Lake Slide 11 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 11 Climatological Stations 70 stations Slide 12 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 12 Agrometeorological Stations 10 stations 1 st observation Jan.1926 El Khargah Slide 13 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 13 Solar Radiation Network 12 stations 1st observation Jul.1956 El Gizah Slide 14 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 14 Pollution Stations 5 stations Slide 15 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 15 OZONE STATION 4 Stations 1st observation 1928 Khtamiah. Regular records Cairo 1967. Slide 16 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 16 35 stations Automatically Weather Stations Slide 17 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 17 Upper air Stations 6 stations RDF+GPS 1st observation Sep.1959 El Maamora Slide 18 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 18 Met. Observations Network 45 10 6 36 70 5 12 4 116 Synoptic Surface Stations Synoptic Surface Stations Agromet. Stations Agromet. Stations Upper air Stations Upper air Stations Auto. Weather Stations Auto. Weather Stations Climatological Station Climatological Station Pollution Stations Pollution Stations Solar Radiation Stations Solar Radiation Stations Ozone Stations Ozone Stations Total Stations ( Locations ) Total Stations ( Locations ) Slide 19 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 19 Forecasting Centers Forecasting Centers Main Forecasting Center Cairo International Airport Main Military Forecasting center Almaza Military Center Raas El-Teen Military Center Luxer Airport Hurgada Airport El- Nozha Airport Slide 20 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 20 Satellite receiving Systems Satellite receiving Systems Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) Low rate information + High rate information RETIEM 2000 SAtellite DIstribution System (SADIS) Slide 21 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 21 GTS async-tg TripoliDelhi International circuits VSAT Airports VSAT Cairo A/P Terminal 1 SADIS MESSIR VISION MESSIR AERO AFTN Cairo A/P (Terminal 2) MESSIR COMM Met. Sat. MDDRETIM 2000 Async-tg Local Army GTS X.25 NairobiAlgeria TCP/IP ( FTP ) Khart. UK Exter SADIS Jed. Mosco Local Internet Centr. IBM Data Base Resea ch Slide 22 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 22 Cisco PIX Firewall Cisco Router VSAT Egyptian Airports MESSIR SYSTEMS MESSIR-VISION 192.168.193.0 212.103.189.0 172.16.38.23 Internet Terminal Server 192.168.10.0 MESSIR-COMM Server TCPIP connections MESSIR-COMM Servers VSAT MUX Met. Sat. RETIM 2000 DEXLAN Switch MESSIR-COMM Terminals MESSIR Terminals Cairo A/P Terminal 1 SADIS MESSIR VISION MESSIR AERO AFTN Cairo A/P (Terminal 2) MESSIR COMM TCP/IP FTP UK Exter SADIS Slide 23 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 23 DATA BASE DATA BASE Operational Data Base (ODB) Operational from August 2002 National Climatological Data Base ( NCDB ) Slide 24 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 24 Forecast Sources Forecast Sources ECMWF METEO FRANCE EGYPT ETA Global ETA ( under test ) Slide 25 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 25 The Computer Center The Computer Center IBM Main Frame (started at 1968) Windows NT LAN Telecommunication System(AMSS) Messir Comm, Messir Vission and Messir Aero to display in both alphanumeric and graphical forms locally developed S / W for plotting and Quality Control Slide 26 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 26 Cairo NWP Center Cairo NWP Center Started at 1976 ordinary Weather charts Cloud Cover, Precipitation, Dust uptake transport and deposition Egypt/ETA Model Slide 27 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 27 The Library The Library The library in EMA can be considered as one of the largest and specialized libraries. Its area around 350 sq.m., it contains more than 25000 publications,text books, atlases, periodic,and books in basic sciences. Slide 28 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 28 The main end-users of met.services in Egypt Civil Aviation. Military activities. Marine Navigation Tourism Investment projects Agriculture activities Media Public Weather Serv. Water Resources Managements Environment. Services to research centers companies of Clean Energy. projects like solar and wind energy New Cities planning. Urban Meteorology Water Resources & Irrigation Slide 29 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 29 Services in percentages to different sectors in Egypt Slide 30 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 30 1- The Center of early warning of air pollution (Ministry of Environment) 2- The center of Nile Floods Forecast (Ministry of irrigation and water resources) 3- National Atomic Energy in the field of Dispersion of Nuclear Pollutants Bilateral Cooperation 4- Eumetsat 5- Germany & Czech Republic in Ozone Measurements. 6- LACE & LISA Labs In Paris (Aerosols Measurements ) 7- Abdus Salam Institute ( ICTP ) ( ICTP ) Slide 31 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 31 8- Projects of renewable energy (Solar & Wind ) with the New energy authority and Denmark,Finland, Switzerland 9- Stable isotopes in rain water and water vapor in Mediterraneanregion with IAEA. 10- Cairo, Al Azhar Egyptian Universities 11- International Lab.of Theoretical Physics in Italy 12- Meteo-France Bilateral Cooperation Slide 32 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 32 The center is one of Twenty-Three Regional Training centers all over the world, seven in RA I. Cairo Regional Training Center (CRTC) Slide 33 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 33 CAIRO REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER Slide 34 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 34 Current Courses Current Courses WMO BIP-M WMO BIP-MT(Instrument) WMO BIP-MT (Climate) WMO BIP-MT (Observers ) Aviation and Satellite Met. For Pilots from Air Force Slide 35 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 35 NATIONALITIES NATIONALITIES LESOTHO,GHANA,KYNYA, TANZANIA,GAMBIA,ZAMBIA SECHELLE,SWAZILAND, SIERRALION,NIGERIA MOZAMBIQUE,ETHIOPIA MAURITIUS,UGANDA SOUTH AFRICA,LIBERIA BOTSWANA,NAMIBIA,NIGER SUDAN,SYRIA.KAWAT,EMIRATE Slide 36 NORTH AFRICA Regional Climate Center- Network ( NA-RCC) Two functions allocated for Cairo center in this network : 1- Long Range Forecast Model ( operation - data processing output ) 2- Training ( Staff End users ) Wednesday, April 22, 2015 36 Slide 37 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 37 New International Centre for conferences It will be ready by 2010 Slide 38 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 38 New International Centre for conferences It will be ready by 2010 Slide 39 Egypt wind speed map in m/s Review of Literature (windblown sand through equations) Slide 40 Example of one of the sand collecting stations working west of Lake Nasser Slide 41 Landsat Image of Garf Hussein Slide 42 Sand collector, Bagnold's type, mounted at the dominant wind direction Slide 43 Example of one of the weather stations working west of Lake Nasser Slide 44 Meteorological Station Map for Lake Nasser showing locations of the weathering stations and conducted sand traps Slide 45 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 45 Finally THANK YOU