Thereafter the Department of Meteorology came into existence in the Directorate General of Civil Aviation and Meteorology, and gradually the Omanization level of staffing reached 100 %. Another Royal Decree was issued in 1986 amending the organizational structure of the Ministry of Transportation that resulted in integrating the Directorate General of Meteorology and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation as one Directorate General known as the Directorate General of Civil Aviation and Meteorology located at Muscat International Airport under the Ministry of Transport and Communication. In 1982 a Royal Decree was issued for the establishment of the Directorate General of Meteorology under the Ministry of Transportation at that time. During this year, the National Meteorological Center issued approximately 2000 forecasts and 600 regional forecasts for airlines covering the air routes to Hong Kong and Singapore in the East, and London in the West and Diego Garcia in the South, and to various friendly countries. In the year of 1976 a ministerial decision was issued to establish National Meteorological Services as one of the sections of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation under the Ministry of Transportation at that time.
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For Example, Royal Oman Air Force, Royal Navy Oman, Royal Oman Police Air wing as well as all International and Domestic Airports.įrom May 1975 the Meteorological services was extended to the public as Weather Forecast broadcasted through Oman TV and Radio which became an essential part in daily program in both Arabic and English languages which was well received and welcomed by the public. Within a short span of time, meteorology became prominent in fulfilling the requirements and providing services to different public and private agencies. In March 1975 the first terminal aerodrome forecast report was issued from Muscat International Airport. During the Sixties Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) established new stations along the coastal and interior areas.Īs regards the real beginning of Meteorology in Oman, it was during the era of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos when he inaugurated Seeb International Airport in 1973 (now renamed as Muscat International Airport) by establishing a special section responsible for providing meteorological services in particular for Aviation.ĭuring the year of 1975 the Sultanate became an active member of World Meteorological Organization (WMO), based in Geneva, Switzerland. In the year 1893 a Meteorological Station was established in Muscat, And in 1942 three more stations were established in Salalah, Masirah, and Thumrait. The new sea level stations and the national early warning system will serve to strengthen the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (IOTWS) by providing a much more complete coverage of the North Western Indian Ocean including Oman Sea.The meteorological observation practices in Sultanate of Oman dates back to the year 1900 when it was implemented by private agencies at that time.
The projects focus on expanding the knowledge base on regional risk reviewing available system components expanding infrastructure and capacity improving awareness, preparedness and community-based risk reduction. The installation is one of nine projects that contribute to this effort.īy the end of this collaboration, Oman will have its own fully operational Early Warning Centre, embedded in a national policy for Disaster and Risk Reduction and Mitigation. IOC-Unesco has been closely working with the Sultanate of Oman, providing technical support and guidance to assist in the design and establishment of its own National Multi Hazard Early Warning System (NMHEWS) including for tsunami and other sea-level related hazards. “The stations are functional and providing data streams through the IOC-Unesco Sea Level Station Monitoring Facility via GTS (Global Telecommunication System), a monitoring service for real time sea level measuring stations that contributes to several international programmes, such as the Global Sea Level Observing System Core Network and the regional tsunami warning systems,” the statement added. The stations were done with the assistance of Unesco’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC-Unesco), the global UN agency said in a statement issued at the weekend. Muscat: Oman’s Directorate General of Meteorology and Air Navigation (DGMAN) has completed the installation of seven new sea-level stations to help bolster the efficacy of regional tsunami warning systems.
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