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Outcome Enhanced community safety and well-being through the effective use of meteorological and related services by the general public and other major social and economic sectors.
Objective To meet the present and future needs of the general public and specialised users for reliable, responsive, climate data, information and advisory services.
Effectiveness indicators The extent to which:
  • climate services contribute to minimising economic and other costs of disaster preparedness; the safety, comfort, convenience and general welfare and economic benefit of the public and major community groups; government and community plannning; and the economy and efficiency of primary and secondary industry;
  • user needs are identified and satisfied and new services and products are developed as required;
  • the public, major user groups and specialised users receive, understand and make optimum use of the services and express satisfaction with the services; and
  • the data stored in the National Climate Centre are appropriate in terms of types of parameters included; comply with relevant national and international guidelines in respect of density, frequency and length of period of observations stored; have been subject to appropriate quality control; are of acceptable quality; and are stored optimally in terms of security and accessibility.


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