Egyptian Meteorological Authority (EMA)
Founded: 1947
Head: Mr. A.M. Rebba, Director
Address:
Koubry El-ouobba - P.O. Box: 11784
Telephone: 202-2840860
Facsimile: 202-2840857
E-mail: me@nwp.gov.eg
Web site: http://www.nwp.gov.eg
Institutional
framework:
Governmental,
National
Working languages:
Arabic,
English
Areas of
activity:
Applied science and technology: Meteorology
Number of
staff:
Research professionals: 261
Support professionals: 114
Technicians: 943
Staff total: 2,242
Library
holdings:
Number of library volumes: 25,000
Number of library periodicals: 40
EMA's mission is weather observation and forecasting.
Organizational
structure:
EMA is heated
by a board of directors and comprises the
following departments/units: Information Centre, Planning
and Follow-up, Control and Inspection, Organizing and
Administration,
International Affairs, Legal Affairs, Public
Relations,
Security, Technical Office, Central Statistics,
Follow-up
Office, Central Administration for Finance and
Administrative
Affairs, Engineering Affairs, Scientist
Research,
Training, Central Administration for Analysis and
Forecasting,
Central Administration for Stations, Instruments
and Meteorology
R and D
activities/schemes:
EMA undertakes
research studies on issues such as
environmental pollution and climate change.
Training
activities:
Training is
provided by the Regional meteorological Training
Centre (RMTC) of
the Authority and includes the following:
- Specialized
training and qualifying courses for employees of
the Authority and for the foreigners, including: Training senior
meteorologists on forecasting, data processing, climatology,
agrometeorology and numerical predictions; Training of
technical observers on the meteorological analysis,
climatology and agrometeorology.
- Training in
institutions and universities through programmes
related to the meteorological applications in universities, civil
and military institutions.
- Observers
Training: RMTC trains Meteorologists observers
and technicians of the Authority, in addition to candidates
from the Arabic, African and Asian countries in the fields of
repair, maintenance and calibration of the electronic ant
classic observing instruments used in the Meteorological
station. Special training courses on micro-electronics of
instruments used in the meteorological field are also
provided.
Meetings,
conferences and seminars:
The Authority contributes
to conferences, meetings and
international seminars organized by the World Meteorological
Organization (WMO)
and the International Civil Aviation
Organization (ICAO)
in the different branches of
meteorology.
Public
services:
EMA provides climatological data to all the sectors in
and exchanges such data internationally to be used in the
scientific research related to agriculture, industry,
environmental pollution and other activities.
EMA provides
services for civil aviation, marine, tourism,
agriculture, construction and housing planning. In addition,
EMA is
designated by WMO to be a regional centre for
instrument calibration and maintenance in
The Authority
receives many group visitors whether from
schools, universities or research and scientist authorities to
be acquainted with its activities.
Publications:
Non-recurrent:
Climatical Atlas of
Recurrent: Monthly and annual climatological
reports.
On//ne material:
Four-days weather forecasts in Egyptian
cities, cloud forecasts and other services are available on
EMA'S web site.
Links to other
organizations:
The
Meteorological Authority has strong relations with
international organizations such as ICAO, the International
Oceanographic
Commission (IOC), the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate change (IPCC) and others.
Parent
body/affiliations:
EMA is
affiliated to the Civil Aviation Sector of the Ministry of Transport.
Main research
facilities/equipment available:
EMA has a
mainframe IBM 4381 computer to operate
numerical weather prediction and other scientist motels,
store and retrieve meteorological information and issue
weather charts
The EMA library
includes scientific references in the fields of
meteorology, in addition to a big number of publications
related to meteorology as physics, astronomy, mathematics,
chemistry and a great number of dictionaries of several
languages such as English, French, German, Italian and
Spanish.
Future
development plans and programmes:
- Upgrading
automatic observing system in
Forecasting
Centre;
- Establishing
of a database in EMA;
- Establishing
of upper air stations in El-Farafara and Qena,
Funding:
Sources: The Egyptian Meteorological Authority.
Last annual budget: LE 32,000,000
Distribution of last annual budget: Staff
salaries: 43 per cent;
Development of
institute: 56 per cent; Stab training: 0.02 per cent;
Information
sources:
- Information
provided by EMA dated