Jordan Meteorological Department JMD

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Jordan Meteorological Department (JMD)

• Enhancing South West Asian Climate Change
  Monitoring and Indices

Alanya, Antalya 4 to 9 October 2004
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Area total 92,300 sq km land 91,971 sq km
water 329 sq km 26 km coast line lowest
point Dead Sea -408 m highest point Jabal Ram
1,734 m
mostly desert plateau in east, highland area in
west Great Rift Valley separates East and West
Banks of the Jordan River
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JMD Network

• Main stations (22)
• SYNOPTIC AGROMET STATIONS
• Volunteers (27 )
• CLIMATE STATIONS
• Rainfall Stations (60)

• These rainfall stations run by different
  agencies
• The data is not digitiz
• The data is used for media purposes

Daily, monthly synoptic (6 hours) data
available in digital format
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Station Information
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Data collection and processing

• National Forecasting Center

• The raw data are received from Global and
  Regional centers
• Satellite and Radar Data are also received.
• Manual data decoding, plotting analysis and
  forecasting
• NWP-models are used to Issue 24-72 hours weather
  forecast

• Applied Meteorology Directorate

• Collecting Data from station networks
• Climate elements ( Temperature,precipitation,
  upper air ..) are observed _at_ (00,03,06,09,12,15,1
  8,21 GMT)
• Processing data from station networks
• Archiving
• Distribution of Climate information

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Climate Data management module
Data Processing
Data source
archiving
Station sites

• Long term
• Retrieval

• Collecting ,checking
• Readable format
• QC-procedures
• Input in database

CDBMSs JCDMS 1.1
OUTPUT
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Presentation of climate data

• Tabular and Graphical
• Maps
• Standard publications

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Jordan climate
Major characteristic-

• Rainy season (November to April )and very dry
  weather for the rest of the year.
• Hot, dry, uniform summers and cool, variable
  winters during which all of the precipitation
  occurs.
• Jordan has a Mediterranean-style climate..
• Jordan long summer reaches a peak during August.
• January is usually the coolest month.
• Wide ranges of temperature during a
  twenty-four-hour period are greatest during the
  summer months .

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• Daytime temperatures during the summer months
  frequently exceed 36C and average about 32C.
• The winter months--November to April--bring
  moderately cool and sometimes cold weather,
  averaging about 13C. Except in the rift
  depression, frost is fairly common during the
  winter, and it occasionally snows in Amman.
• For a month or so before and after the summer
  dry season, khamsinic conditions prevail (hot,
  dry air)

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Jordan climate can be divided into 3 main
types-       1.        Hilly regions      
2.        The Ghor( Jordan valley)      
3.        Desert

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Spatial Distribution of Rain
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