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Business Plan of

S A Weather Service for 2003/04

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Achievements in past year

Establishment of the Aviation Weather Centre and improve services

Participation in the WSSD Tanzania project 5 AWS’s Improvements in accuracy of

weather warnings and forecasts

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Achievements

Training of scientists and forecasters BSc Hons (17 + 12 )

Training of extension officers - 122 in 4 workshops in 4 Provinces

Growth of Weather Line. R 1,8 m Service delivery contracts –

ESKOM SASOL UAE COINTEL MULTICHOICE

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PUBLIC GOOD SERVICESScientific support

Improvement in the observations network Restore observation networks to former

levels New Technology

Weather buoys AMDAR MSG

Electronic Communication Cell phone technology

Expand Radar Network Spatial Interpolation and Mapping of

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Establishing an effective climate data base

The designated custodian of the National Climate data base.

Provide critical information to the agriculture and other climate sensitive industries in South Africa.

Full integration with a GIS system.

A new data capturing system is being developed.

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Serving the maritime industry

Services to the maritime industry decline in the last few years. Competition from other National Meteorological Services and private sector operators.

Training and development of staff to serve this sector is a top priority.

The strategy for taking back our responsibility includes to initiates the re-locating a Marine Weather Centre in Cape Town.

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Serving rural and vulnerable communities

Additional revenue from commercial services to free up funds

Eastern Cape project and the Umtata Radar.

Improve further in the use of effective weather warning system, community radio stations, cell phone technology, the disaster management network, the SAPS network and agriculture extension facilities and (NAFU)

Improved verification system. . Impact related information.Restructuring of the regional offices

aimed at a their specific needs.

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COMMERCIAL SERVICES

Aviation industry. Dissemination of information

Cellphones, Web, SMS’s Fax on demand

Other commercial services Eskom, Sasol, Lesotho Tanazania,

UAE, (Coega, Namibia, Mulitichoice)

Additional support Debtors section, online transactions

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NEPAD

Regional weather radar network

AWS and AMDAR data Joint procurement Training RTH and RSMC

responsibilities to SADC

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27 February 2003

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Japhet 1 March 2003

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