• “如果公众意识能对海啸这样的自然灾害所带来的威胁有更充分的认识，很多灾难就不会发生，很多生命和生活就能得到保护。2015年11月5日，世界海啸警示日的建立是一个很好的步骤。 　“Many disasters would not happen and many lives and livelihoods would be saved if there was greater public awareness of the threats posed by natural hazards such as tsunamis. Declaring November ...

• “天气、气候、水和相关环境条件对全球社会和经济具有重要影响，WMO成员需更好应对极端天气事件和适应变化的气候，国家气象和水文局在其中将起关键作用。 “Weather, climate, water and related environmental conditions have a major impact on our global society and economy，WMO Members have to be better prepared for extreme weather events and to adapt ...

• “在提前数周的全球数值天气预报方面，我们当然被认为是世界领先者。但是，人们会过分简化这个说法，因为那只意味着很多预报平均来看谁做得最好。ECMWF意识到， “It’s certainly true that we are recognized as the world leader in global numerical weather prediction out to a couple weeks ahead. But one can oversimplify this, because that statement about who...

• “Jason-3将解析世界海洋的环境，是让Topex/Poseidon和早期Jason卫星继往开来的使命，Jason-3将会告诉我们海洋的热量，以及一旦热带风暴或飓风进入视野的关键数据。 “Jason-3 will continue the legacy of the Topex/Poseidon and earlier Jason satellites by gathering environmental intelligence from the world’s oceans, Jason-3 will tell us about the heat of the oc...

• “历史是由承诺者而非计算的人写就，今天你们做出了承诺。” “History is written by those who commit, not those who calculate. Today you have committed.” 
  
  　　“历史是由承诺者而非计算的人写就，今天你们做出了承诺。”
  
  　　——2015年12月在法国巴黎召开的气候...

• “国会应该通过林火灾害基金法，众参两院还在审理，这样的法案将改变联邦政府预算如何抑制林火灾害，使得类似应对其他自然灾害资助渠道建立起来。” “Congress should pass the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act. Pending in the House and the Senate, the bill would change how the federal government budgets for the suppression of wildfire disasters, ma...

• “向科学界提供更强大的计算能力很令我们兴奋。无论是太阳风暴的威胁还是某些激烈天气事件升级的风险，这一新系统有助于改进预报和强化社会对潜在灾害的弹性。” “We’re excited to bring more supercomputing power to the scientific community. Whether it’s the threat of solar storms or a heightened risk in certain severe weather events, this new system will...

• “过去10年，ECMWF大幅度改进了模式组件和估计初始状态和预报状态的算法，用概率分布函数（PDF）表示地球系统的状态。大气过程更加接近真实情况，而海洋过程、 “In the past decade, ECMWF has improved substantially the model components and the algorithms used to estimate the initial and forecast states, expressed in terms of a probability distribution fun...

• “我确信我们似乎已经改变了PDO进程。”/“如果你关注PDO和全球温度，你会明白其中的各种关系。” It sure looks to me like we’ve changed phases in the PDO”/“If you try to look at PDO and global temperatures, you can come up with a variety of relationships” 
  
       “我确信我们似乎已经改变了P...

• “2015年12月结束的国际地圈-生物圈计划（IGBP）在协调和促进这项基础研究中获得了巨大声誉。最近启动的未来地球研究计划继承这一荣誉，是新的科学挑战的正确应对。” “The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), which ended in December 2015, can take considerable credit for coordinating and catalyzing much of this fundamental research. The recently ...

• “所有都正常，全功能运行，向我们发回数据，世界上10个最大的天气预报机构一多半都致函Spire表达获取数据协议意向。” “All are nominal, fully functioning, and delivering data to us, more than half of the world's 10 largest weather-forecasting agencies have sent Spire letters of intent for data licensing agreement...