Month: May 2022

A two-day workshop on Climate Early Warning System (CLEWS) organized by the Solomon Islands Meteorological Service (SIMS) in collaboration with Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) with support from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations is underway in Honiara. The workshop is intended for SIMS and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) as well as farmers to consult and identify how SIMS can provide tailored climate services to support farmers. Speaking at the opening of the workshop, Deputy Secretary Technical for the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and Meteorology Mr. Chanel Iroi said…

The Solomon Islands Meteorological Service today took delivery of computer equipment from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for the purpose of Meteorological Data entry, processing and modelling. The equipment include 9 laptops, MS Office 2019 standalone license for each laptop, 9 Docking stations, monitors and 9 external drives of 1 Terabytes capacity each for data storage. The equipment will be used by the Solomon Islands Meteorological service to digitize its climate data to improve its capacity in data management and processing, and ease the development of products and information such as climate trends and variability,…