12 AUGUST 2014
National meteorological services in five Pacific countries are soon to install a tool designed to improve weather forecasting services. The SmartMet system will help met services collate, view, analyse and interpret weather data and at the same time compose, edit, disseminate and archive weather forecasts in graphical and text formats
Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Papua New Guinea and Fiji will be working with SmartMet and this week in Samoa, Met officers are undergoing training that will equip them with the skills to allow them to better utilise SmartMet.
Source: SPREP