AN OVERVIEW OF KEY IMPROVEMENTS BY THE NIGERIAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY FOR THE MODERNISATION OF METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) is posed to be a world class provider of Weather and Climate services for safety and sustainable national socio-economic development and also to observe Nigerian Weather and Climate and provide Meteorological, Hydrological and Oceanographic services in support of national needs and international obligations. NiMet has made and is still making tremendous efforts to ensure the delivery of timely, accurate and quality weather information for the development of all the socio-economic sectors of Nigeria. This is through the densification of the observations networks, acquisition of the relevant and latest weather instruments, weather monitoring systems and training of technical and operational personnel on data capturing, data dissemination system, calibration, installation and maintenance of the acquired equipment .This is aimed at giving an insight to the efforts made and is being made by NiMet towards the modernization of all its meteorological services. The information contained in study was obtained from NiMet through visits to some of the synoptic stations and also from documented sources.