4th Meteorological Technical Conference among China, Macao and Portugal

Macao is hosting the second round of Meteorological Technical Conference among China, Macao and Portugal that was began in 2000 as a way for jointly development our cooperation. The Macao Special Administrative Region is recognized by the Government of the People’s Republic of China to serve as a platform for cooperation between China and Portuguese Speaking Countries. In the meteorological field our aim as to act the same role. After agreed by the China Meteorological Adminstration and the Portuguese Institute of Meteorology, invitation were sent out to all weather Services of the Portuguese Speaking Countries to particpate in this Technical Conference. Their contribution can be the participation of two meteorologists by country and scientific presentations in areas which they can contributed to. The six Portuguese Speaking countries which will be present are: Angola, Cape Vert, East Timor, Guine-Bissau, Mozambique and Portugal. The aim of this meeting is to enhance the cooperation among Meteorological Institutions and given the importance of this activities for the development of the technical and scientific interdisciplinary knowledge in the field of meteorology in MSAR, and contributes to the cooperation and exchange among China, Macao and the Portuguese Speaking Countries Meteorological Services. All this activities are to serve more and better the Macao population. During the openning session it will take place a ceremony for the transfer the Portuguese version of the World Meteorological Organization / World Weather Information System from Macao, China to Portugal. This website is part of the Public Weather Service Program of this international Organization, and was designed and developed in 2004 by Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau as a way to contributing to the World Meteorological Organization Programs and specially to the portuguese speaking community. Colaboration were received from Hong Kong Observatory and Portuguese Institute of Meteorology during the development stage of this website. The openning cerimony of the Conference will taking place at 10am on 12 June 2007 at the SMG Headquarters located at Taipa Grande.