Through an international, competitive bidding process, the University of Oklahoma was recently selected by the Meteorological and Hydrological Service of the Republic of Croatia to undertake a comprehensive modernization Feasibility Study for the DHMZ. Led by Regents Professor Ken Crawford, Director of the Oklahoma Climatological Survey, the study team consists of a diverse collection of meteorological experts from the National Weather Center.
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2007 is likely to be the hottest year on record around the world, according to climate-change experts at Britain's Meteorological Office. In its annual weather projection issued today, the agency, in conjunction with the University of East Anglia, has linked the rising temperatures to a combination of greenhouse-gas emissions and El Nino, a phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean that upsets normal weather patterns. RFE/RL correspondent Jeffrey Donovan spoke with David Parker, a Meteorological Office research scientist.
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