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Mission Statement
To provide expert advice and to produce
reliable data on meteorological systems for Samoa |
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Section
functions and areas of work |
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Meteorology
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The section
aims to produce and provide the public, aviation and transport
systems, mariners, with twice daily weather forecasts and advice on
weather related events
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To organize
and manage Operations to observe
and record hourly, synoptic (3 hourly), and daily weather
observations for critical weather information dissemination to
aviation and transport systems, mariners, and for climate archival
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Operations
- Operations
record data 24 hours, 7 days a week, at the Apia, Mulinu'u station
and at the Faleolo Airport station
- The data recorded is also coded by
Operations for hourly metars (meteorological aviation
reports) and synoptic (3 hourly) reports. This data is
shared on the global meteorological network
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