Systematic Observations Financing Facility
Providing grant funding for the collection of weather and climate data
Systematic Observations Financing Facility
The Systematic Observations Financing Facility (SOFF) addresses missing weather and climate observations around the world. The mechanism supports and accelerates the collection and international exchange of highly essential surface-based weather and climate observations in compliance with international standards to improve the quality and provision of weather forecasts, early warning systems, and climate services at all levels of society.
In Ethiopia, SOFF collaborates with the Ethiopian Meteorological Institute (EMI) and with MET Norway as a peer advisor for the the institute. One of the projects Sarepta aims at institutional support and capacity building for Weather and Climate Services in order to improve the country´s preparedness and prevention capacity to weather variability and extremes. The collaboration with EMI focuses on the implementation and use of weather forecasting tools in open source code, training of meteorologist and IT personnel to build competence, use of various statistical tools and verification methods.
