Mission
The major activities of JMA are to issue warnings, advisories and forecasts, to deal with the global environmental issues such as global warming and ozone depletion, and to provide information on earthquake and volcanic activities.
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The Tokyo Climate Center (TCC) of the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has released the 59th issue of the TCC News. This issue covers:
Global surface temperature for 2019 was the second highest since 1891
The Japan Meteorological Agency tentatively changes the criteria for warnings and advisories of heavy rain and flooding in the affected areas of the 2011 Pacific coast Off-Tohoku Earthquake and the following tsunami. JMA uses a Runoff Index (RI) and Soil Water Index (SWI) in addition to the analyzed rainfall as the criteria for warnings and advisories of heavy rain and floods...
'JMA continues issuing forecasts and warnings as usual. Although we have some troubles with AWS, seismometers and tide gauges in Tohoku and surrounding areas due to the earthquake and tsunami, so far we have no major problems in issuing warnings/advisories/information on earthquakes, tsunamis and severe weather.' said Mitsuhiko Hatori Director-General of JMA in a statement...
The aim of the Seminar is to exchange experiences and views on the management of meteorological and hydrological services and thereby strengthen capacities of the participating NMHSs, particularly in the field of disaster prevention and climate is
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