Mission and Objectives

Purpose and Objectives

Purpose

         What is the TCP?
         The Tropical Cyclone Programme is a part of WMO's Weather and Disaster Risk Reduction Services Department tasked to establish national and regionally coordinated systems to ensure that the loss of life and damage caused by tropical cyclones are reduced to a minimum.

         How does it work?
         The programme is effected on both national and regional levels through cooperative action. It covers activities of Members, WMO regional associations, other international and regional bodies and the WMO Secretariat.

Objectives

         TCP's Vision
         ...that the national and regionally coordinated systems that it had helped establish will ensure that the loss of life and damage caused by tropical cyclones are reduced to a minimum.

TCP's goals are to encourage and  assist its Members to:

• provide reliable forecasts of tropical cyclone tracks and intensities, and related forecasts of strong winds, quantitative forecasts and timely assessments of heavy rainfall, quantitative forecasts and simulation of storm surges, along with timely warnings covering all tropical cyclone-prone areas;

• provide forecasts of floods associated with tropical cyclones;

• promote awareness to warnings and carry out activities at the interface between the warning systems and the users of warnings, including public information, education and awareness;

• provide the required basic meteorological and hydrological data and advice to support hazard assessment and risk evaluation of tropical cyclone disasters; and

• establish national disaster preparedness and prevention measures.