Updated: 19-10-2023
Source: China Meteorological News Press
In recent days, Shenzhen’s experience on Smart Meteorological Service in Mega-Cities of Guangdong has been incorporated into the report of United in Science 2023 of the United Nations (UN) as a case of China. This report was spearheaded by World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The annual report combines input and expertise from 18 organizations.
This experience is mainly reflected in the following three aspects.
Firstly, building a smart urban meteorological observing system featured by government-led, multi-participation and multi-source data. Based on the construction of intelligent poles in smart cities, two hundred-meter-scale precise monitoring demonstration areas in Futian and Qianhai have been established. Shenzhen Municipal Meteorological Service has joined hands with several departments in planning and natural resources, industry and information technology, housing and urban-rural construction to compile technical standards and regulate the integration of meteorological facilities and equipment with meteorological data.
Secondly, jointly developing disaster risk early warning services and creating a progressive meteorological service model of "31631". Meteorological departments have provided precise monitoring, accurate forecasting, early warning and risk diagnosis services in a step-by-step manner, which has effectively realized interdepartmental coordination and social response, promptly translating meteorological monitoring, forecasting and early warning information into disaster prevention and reduction action of governments at all levels and the public.
Thirdly, cooperating with telecommunication operators and high-tech enterprises to conduct precise targeted impact-based early warning information services via SMS of mobile phone. It can issue a net-wide early warning message to more than 24 million mobile phone subscribers in the city in about two hours, and can cover any street or disaster risk affected areas in Shenzhen within 5 to 10 minutes.
This experience is one of the phased outcomes of Pilot Project on Public-Private Engagement for Smart Meteorological Service in Mega-Cities in Regional Association II of WMO.
Editor: LIU Shuqiao