The National Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics of Angola (INAMET) will benefit from a technological modernization that will make it possible to warn, in advance, of occurrences of drought and extreme rain, fundamentally in the southern region of the country.
The guarantee was given by the director of the institution, João Afonso, in an interview with JORNAL DE ANGOLA, stressing that this modernization of INAMET services is budgeted at 60 million euros, a bet that relies on state-of-the-art technology and equipment.
The director emphasizes that the means are of great use for the performance of sectors such as Agriculture, Water and Health, and with this technological update it will allow INAMET to act at the highest level, compared to countries such as Brazil and Africa southern.
According to João Afonso, in recent years INAMET has installed automatic meteorological stations for various purposes, with emphasis on three sounding radio stations, called “Robotprobe”, which are fully automated, the last being inaugurated in 2023, in Luena, province of moxico, and the other two installed in Luanda and Huila.
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It was also revealed that the country has a system called Aerometweb, in the aeronautical part, used to issue letters to pilots before the aircraft take off, in order to have information on the route they follow to the destination, using satellite data, weather stations, numerical models. This is essential information for flight safety.
Finally, the Director reported that the modernization of INAMET began in 2019, with the change of conventional stations, stations that must have a meteorological observer every hour.
The recorded meteorological data had no way of being sent to the global system, except for stations located at airports. With automatic stations, it is no longer necessary to have an observer, since meteorological data are sent in real time to the central INAMET server, which automatically transmits them to the global system.
