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LMO Description
Organisation METEO-FRANCE
Details
Level of authority National
France
Formal Mandate Météo-France is the National Meteorological Service of France. It is a public administration under the authority of the Ministry of Transport and Housing, responsible for supplying information nationwide on the state of the atmosphere and the repercussions this may have on human life anf property. To meet these requirements, it:
- manages observation networks (surface, upper air, by radar, lightning impacts), the data from which are exchanged with those of other meteorological services worldwide
- receives and processes these data
- receives and processes information supplied by geostationary or polar meteorological satellites
- analyses all this information and feeds it into numerical prediction models, either at global scale or over areas of particular interest,
- transmits this information to the general public, to state organisations responsible for civil safety and defence, and to institutional organisations in important economic sectors (civil aviation, agriculture, production and transport of energy, maritime activities, etc.)
- archives the measurements thus gathered to meet the needs of climate studies and any other applications.
Main Activities see formal mandate above
LMO URL http://www.meteo.fr 
Comments WMO and the National Met. Services are going to adopt the ISO 19115 norm for their metadata
LMO CONTACT INFORMATION
Contact Person SANTONI PHILIPPE
Organisation METEO-FRANCE
Function lawyer
Address 1 Quai Branly, 75340 PARIS CEDEX07, France
Country FRANCE 
Tel +33 1 45 56 70 99
Fax +33 1 45 56 74 55 
PROPOSED ROLE IN INSPIRE DEVELOPMENT
Which role(s) do you foresee for the LMO in INSPIRE development
  1. participate in the review process
Area of work/experience
Geographic Domain: National
Description of geographic extent: France
Societal Sector Central Government
Specific Expertise
Metadata
Data Specifications
Network services
Data and Service Sharing
Monitoring and Reporting
INSPIRE Data Themes
Theme UserProducerCoordinator
Hydrography    
Elevation    
Geology    
Soil    
Land use    
Atmospheric conditions
Meteorological geographical features
Oceanographic geographical features
Previous Experience relevant for INSPIRE development See formal mandate above
Primary Business Meteorology 
Environmental application domains Meteorology and its applications  

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