The Turkish State Meteorological Service
The Turkish State Meteorological Service
(TSMS) was founded
in 1937. It is the only legal organization which provides all
meteorological information in Turkey.
The main objectives of the TSMS are:
- To make observations,
- To provide forecasts,
- To provide climatological data, archive
data, and other information,
- To communicate these to the public,
- To provide meteorological needs of army and
civil avition.
The TSMS has the membership of the following international
organizations:
- WMO (the World Meteorological Organization), a specialised
agency of the United Nations which organises the work and collaboration
of all the national meteorological services
- ECMWF, a European intergovernmental organisation providing
global meteorological and oceanographic forecasts
- EUMETSAT, the European meteorological satellite organisation
for the establishment, maintenance and exploitation of operational
meteorological satellite systems
- ECOMET, a European organisation dealing with commercial
activities within the meteorological community.
- ICAO, a UN specialised agency which provides Standards and
Recommended Practices (SARP) for the safe, regular and economic
performance of international civil aviation. |