Call for Partners: WMO-UNEP Global Hydrological Operations Platform

National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS) face myriad challenges to improve the quality and the relevance of their services to the growing needs of society, and especially those arising from floods, droughts, and water availability or security risks due to climate change. These challenges can include:
- Lack of information products and datasets to help understand and manage water resources ​
- Lack of information products and datasets to better manage increasingly more frequent extreme weather events, such as floods and droughts, brought by climate change ​
- Lack of capacity to predict future trends and hydroclimate patterns to better plan and adapt to climate change The overarching goal of the proposed work is to pilot an operational global hydrologic platform to assess the status of global water resources and provide flood and drought warnings. The platform will address some of the challenges brought by climate change, which have been listed above.