Peter Berg Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe Now at Rossby Centre, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden [email protected] Christopher Moseley Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany and Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht, Climate Service Center, Hamburg, Germany [email protected] Jan ...

Meteorology is a global endeavor consuming vast resources for keeping an eye on the entire world. Thereby it not only detects the present state of the atmosphere, but also envisions its possible futures. Thus, the knowledge instruments of meteorology are permanent remote sensing, worldwide nets of weather stations, world data archives, and global circulation models computing weather and climate...

The present status of education and training in agricultural meteorology is reviewed in relation to the agreed objectives of this interdisciplinary science. The major educational contribution of the agronomy faculties to the educational and research effort is acknowledged. The significant part played by the World Meteorological Organization Regional Meteorological Training Centres in the traini...