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VOL. 8 | ISSUE 2 | 2020 ISNN 2299-3835 | POLISH INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGY AND WATER MANAGEMENT – NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE – NATIONAL MANAGEMENT AND WATER OF METEOROLOGY | POLISH INSTITUTE ISNN 2299-3835 MHWM – Meteorology Hydrology and Water Management is issued by SWOT analysis of the Institute of Meteorology Polish Institute of Meteorology and Water Management – National Research Institute and Water Management – National Research Institute 01-673 Warsaw, Podleśna 61, Poland www.imgw.pl in the context of World Meteorological ISNN 2299-3835 Organization Reform adopted during its 18th Congress 5 MHWM EDITORIAL OFFICE Tomasz Walczykiewicz, Janusz Filipiak Institute of Meteorology and Water Management – National Research Institute 01-673 Warsaw, Podleśna 61, Poland T: +48 22 56 94 510 | E: [email protected] Simulating the influence of doubled CO2 Dear audience, EDITORIAL BOARD on the water budget over West Africa it was a tough year, marked by the struggle of the world community with the global Editor in Chief: using RegCM4.7 13 COVID-19 pandemic. Lockdown and communication restrictions also affected the Prof. Dr. Mariusz Figurski | E: [email protected] Mojisola Oluwayemisi Adeniyi scientific community at that time. Against all odds, we managed to keep the work Climatology and Meteorology Editor: going and publish new issues of the MHWM magazine. Dr. Adam Jaczewski | E: [email protected] MHWM would like to thanks to authors and reviewers. Thank you for trust, support Hydrology and Water Management Editor: Bioclimatic zoning of the territory of Ukraine and understanding. It is you who determine the quality and brand recognition of Dr. Wiwiana Szalińska | E: [email protected] the magazine. That is why we invite again to publish new articles in the MHWM based on human thermal state assessment 21 Technologies and Operational Systems Editor: Liudmyla Malytska, Stanislav Moskalenko magazine and promote our content among colleagues from the world of science. Dr. Michał Ziemiański | E: [email protected] We would like to thank members of the Advisory Board: Mr. Kazimierz Banasik, GNSS Meteorology and Remote Sensing Editor: Mr. Christian Bernhofer, Mr. Günter Blöschl, Mr. Dawei Han, Mr. Ni Jinren, Dr. Grzegorz Nykiel | E: [email protected] Mr. Zbigniew Kundzewicz, Mr. Henny van Lanen, Mr. Artur Radecki-Pawlik and Trends in monthly, seasonal, and annual fluctuations Mr. Paweł Wielgosz, for supporting the magazine and promoting it on the Space Weather Editors: Dr. Leszek Błaszkiewicz | E: [email protected] in flood peaks for the upper Dniester River 29 international publishing arena. We invite you to further cooperation and look forward Dr. Wojciech Jarmołowski | E: [email protected] to your remarks and comments on the Journal’s Publishing Policy. We want to work Serhii Melnyk, Nataliia Loboda even more closely with you to improve the image and quality of the magazine. Words of appreciation to colleagues from the Editorial Board team who, in the Advisory Board: Kazimierz Banasik, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland difficult circumstances of remote work and despite accumulating official duties, Christian Bernhofer, Dresden University of Technology, Germany Temperature and ice regimes of waterbodies ensured a friendly and professional working atmosphere. Thanks to your commitment, Günter Blöschl, Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Austria we can look into the future with hope and set new goals and challenges. Dawei Han, University of Bristol, UK under the impacts of global warming Ni Jinren, Peking University, China and a hydropower plant 39 Next few years will be a time of rebuilt. The global economy has to recover from the Zbigniew Kundzewicz, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland recession. This is a big chance for science to play a key role in this process. We must Henny van Lanen, Wageningen University, The Netherlands Viktor Ivanovych Vyshnevskyi Artur Radecki-Pawlik, Cracow University of Technology, Poland re-trust the scientific authorities and undertake ambitious tasks for a better future. Paweł Wielgosz, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland An extremely important element of this post-COVID order will be to deal with challenges posed by global warming and climate change. Science, and in particular such fields as Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, must return to the arena Flood frequency analysis for an ungauged Himalayan Magazine and Content Editor: of international discussions about the future of our planet and the human species. Rafał Stepnowski | T: +48 22 56 94 510, | E: [email protected] river basin using different methods: a case study of Modi Khola, Parbat, Nepal 47 Best regards Technical Editors: Jan Szymankiewicz | E: [email protected] Bibek Acharya, Bisesh Joshi Prof. Mariusz Figurski Grzegorz Dumieński | E: [email protected] Editor in Chief Director of Centre of Numerical Weather Prediction IMGW-PIB Art Editor: Michał Seredin | E: [email protected] Assessing the effects of water withdrawal Linguistic Editors: S. Jordan (PhD), M. Paul (PhD), J. Wester (PhD) for hydraulic fracturing on surface water and groundwater – a review 53 Editorial Advisor: Maciej Jaźwiecki | E: [email protected] Gopal Chandra Saha, Michael Quinn Meteorology Hydrology and Water Management SWOT analysis of the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management – National Research Institute in the context of World Meteorological Organization Reform adopted during its 18th Congress Volume 8 | Issue 2 Tomasz Walczykiewicz, Janusz Filipiak 1. INTRODUCTION stitute of Meteorology and Water Management The above measurements and observations The World Meteorological Organization – National Research Institute (IMGW-PIB). are carried out continuously, to the extent (WMO) is an intergovernmental organization The statutory responsibility of the IMGW-PIB and with the frequency appropriate for a given of 193 members based in Geneva. It was estab- is to monitor atmospheric and hydrological pro- type of station, as specified by WMO standards lished in 1950 as a transformation of the Inter- cesses with sufficient coverage to support fore- as well as regulations and methodologies used national Meteorological Organization (IMO) casting and early warning of threats to public in PSHM. The basic tasks of PSHM also include that had been founded in 1873. The treaty safety, health, and life of citizens and property. maintenance, ongoing repair and failure remov- establishing the organization was signed on Oc- The agency also conducts long-term, complex al, servicing and reconstruction, expansion, tober 11, 1947 (Convention 1947), and took research in the areas of meteorology, hydrology, reconstruction, and disassembly of the basic effect on March 23, 1950. In commemoration, water management, and oceanography, directed measurement and observation network as well SWOT analysis of the Institute this date is celebrated annually as World Mete- toward steady improvement in forecasting com- as a system for collecting, processing, and ex- orological Day. Since March 17, 1951, WMO plex atmospheric and hydrological phenomena changing data. of Meteorology and Water has been a specialized agency of the United and their consequences. IMGW-PIB also moni- Real-time analyses of the hydrological Nations with the mission to standardize, im- tors Poland’s climate. Under the Water Law Act and meteorological situation are carried out, prove, and exchange meteorological informa- (July 2017) this institution includes the Na- supporting preparation and dissemination Management – National Research tion and to support climatological, hydrologi- tional Meteorological & Hydrological Service of forecasts and warnings. Additional important cal, oceanographic, and environmental studies. (PSHM). As a result, it maintains the national tasks are to prepare meteorological and hydro- The main task of the WMO is to organize observational-measurement network, the data logical information, bulletins, hydrological Institute in the context of World and coordinate the activities of meteorological exchange and archiving system, as well as mete- and meteorological yearbooks of PSHM, as well services of various countries, by unifying mete- orological and hydrological forecasting offices. as other dedicated assessments. All these tasks Meteorological Organization orological observation methods and disseminat- Meteorological and hydrological monitoring are carried out by closely cooperating meteor- ing weather forecasts. Every four years the World is financed principally from the state budget. ological and hydrological forecasting offices Meteorological Congress, the WMO’s supreme An interesting question is how the WMO Re- and supporting teams. Reform adopted during its governing body, meets in Geneva. Its findings form is likely to affect the activities of the Polish In preparing forecasts, the Institute uses, guide the operations of WMO and the Nation- NMHS. among others, the COSMO1 and ALADIN2 18th Congress al Meteorological and Hydrological Services models, participating actively through its repre- th 4 (NMHS) throughout the world. During the 18 2. TASKS OF THE INSTITUTE sentatives in the work of these consortia. Activ- 5 Congress in June 2019, routine topics of dis- OF METEOROLOGY AND WATER ities related to hydrological and hydraulic mod- Tomasz Walczykiewicz Institute of Meteorology and Water Management – National Research Institute, Podleśna 61, 01-673 Warszawa, Poland,