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.

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

Barcelona Dust Regional Center