The Center
We are the WMO Barcelona Dust Regional Center. This center manages and coordinates the research activities and operations of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) related to sand and dust storms.
The Center provides access to available dust products and coordinates a network of collaborators (researchers, data providers and users’ communities) in Northern Africa, the Middle East and Europe. The activities of the center focus on facilitating access to the available dust information. The network around the Center promotes scientific collaborations that aim to deepen our understanding of the dust cycle and its variability, along with its impacts on key socio-economic sectors. Additionally, one of the core activities of the Center is to build capacity of end-users with the aim of promoting the use of dust products to address the risks associated with airborne dust.
The WMO Barcelona Dust Regional Center was created in 2007 thanks to the formal agreement of two Spanish institutions: the Meteorological State Agency of Spain (AEMET) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).
- AEMET, apart of its National responsibilities to work at the forefront of weather and climate science for protection, prosperity and wellbeing, is the Spanish representative in international and intergovernmental organizations related to the observation, meteorological prediction and the study and modeling of the climate and its evolution, especially the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) and the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
- BSC is the national supercomputing center in Spain. It specializes in high performance computing (HPC) and manages MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe. The Earth Sciences Department at BSC hosts a long-term mineral dust programme supported by the AXA Research Fund through the AXA Chair on Sand and Dust Storms that combines fundamental research, operational dust forecasting and impact and risk assessment research.
Staff Members
Partners
The partners of the Center include research institutions, universities, international bodies, service providers and user’s communities. They are a fundamental pillar of the success of the Center’s activities.
ACMAD
African Center of Meteorological Applications for Development
AEMET
Agencia Estatal de Meteorología
AM&WFG- NKUA
Atmospheric Modeling and Weather Forecasting Group- University of Athens
ARPA
Regional Environment Protection Agency of Umbria
ASMERC
Atmospheric Science & Meteorological Research Center
AUI
Agricultural University of Iceland
BSC
Barcelona Supercompting Center
CEAMA
Centro Andalúz de Medio Ambiente
CNR-IMAA
Istituto di Metodologie per l'Analisi Ambientale
CNR-ISAC
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
CSIC-IDAEA
Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research
DGMAN
Directorate General of Meteorology and Air Navigation of Oman
DWD
Deutscher Wetterdienst
EEA
European Environmental Agency
EMA
Egyptian Meteorological Authority
ESA
European Space Agency
EUMETSAT
European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
FMI
Finnish Meteorological Institute
GMAO
NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office
GOBCAN
Gobierno de Canarias - Consejería de Transición Ecológica, Lucha contra el Cambio Climático y Planificación Territorial
HNMS
Hellenic National Meteorological Service
IASBS
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences
ICTJA- CSIC
Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera - Spanish National Research Council
IPSL
Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace
IRIMO
Islamic Republic of Iran Meteorological Organization
IWMI
International Water Management Institute
JST
Japan Science and Technology Agency
LISA
Laboratoire Inter-Universitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques
LMD- IPSL
Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique - Institute Pierre Simon Laplace
LOA
Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique
LSCE
Laboratoire des Sciences du climat et de l’Environnement
Maroc Météo
Direction de la Météorologie Nationale du Maroc
MeteoFrance
MeteoFrance
MetOffice
UK MetOffice
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCEP
National Centers for Environmental Prediction
NOA
National Observatory of Athens
NOAA ARL
NOAA Air Resources Laboratory
PA
Planning Authority of Malta
SEEVCCC
South East European Virtual Climate Change Center
SQU
Sultan Qaboos University
SU
Sohar University
TAU
University of Tel Aviv
TNO
Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research
TROPOS
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research
TSMS
Turkish State Meteorological Service
UGR
Universidad de Granada
UNEP
United Nations Environment Programme
UniPG
University of Perugia
UPC
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
WHO
World Health Organization
WMO
World Meteorological Organization