All kinds of integration: WMO's strategy for seamless prediction

Increasing society’s resilience to high-impact natural events requires coordinated research and new investments in observation and prediction. To enable all nations to benefit from these investments, scientific and technical advancements need to be more accessible and usable. The new research strategy of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), dating from the 2017 Science Summit, highlights the benefit of seamless Earth system science. The impacts of weather extremes and environmental change can only be mitigated-or adapted to- through this seamless approach, which would break down the artificial barriers created by the different observing systems, models, time and space scales, and compartments of the Earth system.