| Agencia Estatal de Meteorología | |
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| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | August 18, 1887 |
| Type | meteorological service |
| Headquarters | Madrid, Spain |
| Employees | 1,083 (2023)[1] |
| Annual budget | € 133.8 million, 2023[2] |
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| Parent agency | Ministry of Environment |
| Website | www |
The State Meteorological Agency (Spanish: Agencia Estatal de Meteorología, AEMET) is a state agency of the Government of Spain responsible for providing weather forecast, warnings of hazardous weather and assisting the administrations in such matters. The AEMET is part of the Secretariat of State for Environment of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and is headquartered in the University City, Madrid. The agency was known as Central Institute of Meteorology from 1887 to 1978 and National Institute of Meteorology from 1978 to 2008 when it adopted its current name.[4]
The AEMET performs forecasting based on weather and climate modelling from data collected from its network of monitoring centers. The agency has centers distributed through the regions and it has offices in almost every airport and air force base. In addition, there are monitoring observatories spread throughout the Spanish geography.
It represents Spain in international meteorological institutions, such as the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
- ^ Office of the Comptroller General of the State (2023). "Civil Service Personnel". www.igae.pap.hacienda.gob.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 June 2024.
- ^ "State Budget 2023" (PDF).
- ^ Press, Europa (2023-12-27). "El Gobierno nombra a María José Rallo, ex secretaria general de Transporte, como nueva presidenta de la AEMET". www.europapress.es. Retrieved 2024-06-23.
- ^ "2008 Statute of the State Meteorological Agency". www.boe.es. Retrieved 13 September 2019.