This site is designed so as to provide detailed weather forecasts over more than 520 cities across Europe and North Africa. The weather forecasts are provided by BOLAM model, running operationally at the National Observatory of Athens since 1999. Detailed forecasts for Greece are provided in two other sites: http://www.noa.gr/forecast (in English) and http://www.forecasts.gr (in Greek).

Since 2002, NOA provides detailed forecasts for the locations where the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics will take place (http://www.noa.gr/2004).

The development of this site has been made in the frame of the project: Excellency in Research Centers (MIS-64563), financed by the Greek Secretariat for Research and Technology and the 3rd Community Framework Programme "Competitiveness"

The weather forecasts displayed in this web page are produced by Dr Vassiliki Kotroni and Dr. Kostas Lagouvardos, both researchers at the Institute for Environmental Research, National Observatory of Athens.

Dr. V. Kotroni has a PhD in Dynamic Meteorology (University of Clermont-Ferrand, France, 1993). She has acted as researcher in the Lab. of Meteorology of the Athens University (Physics Dept.) during the period 1993-1998, while since 1999 acts as a researcher in the National Observatory of Athens. She has more than 8 years of experience on meteorological modelling, has participated in many European and National Research Programs as principal investigator and has authored or co-authored more than 30 papers published in international journals in the fields of radar meteorology, mesoscale modelling and study of severe weather events in the Mediterranean. She is member of the Science Committee formed for MEDEX, a new international project for cyclones and high impact weather in the Mediterranean. MEDEX has been recently endorsed as an R&D Project in the frame of World Weather Research Programme of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).

Dr. K. Lagouvardos has a PhD in Dynamic Meteorology (University PARIS 6, 1992). He has acted as a Research Associate in the Lab. of Meteorology of the Athens University (Physics Dept.) during the period 1993-1998, while since 2002 works as Researcher in the National Observatory of Athens. He has participated in many European and National Research Programs as principal investigator and authored or co-authored more than 30 papers published in international journals in the fields of radar meteorology, mesoscale modelling and study of severe weather events in the Mediterranean.