HONG KONG, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- The Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region announced Monday that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation with the Thai Meteorological Department (TMD) to strengthen meteorological collaboration between the two sides.
The MoU was signed Monday in Bangkok by HKO Director Shun Chi-ming and Director-General of the TMD Wanchai Sakudomchai, the HKO said in a press release.
The HKO and the TMD have a long history of cooperation, which can be dated back to 1970 with the establishment of the Hong Kong-Bangkok circuit for the international exchange of meteorological information under the Global Telecommunications System of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), according to the HKO.
At the high-level meeting before the signing ceremony, both parties agreed to pursue collaboration in a number of areas, including windshear detection, thunderstorm nowcasting, coordination in the issuance of significant weather warnings for aviation, and the training of meteorological personnel, it added.
To foster international cooperation, the HKO has signed MoUs in the past several years with the meteorological services of a number of countries, including France, South Korea and the Philippines, according to the HKO.
