Articles | Volume 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-13-145-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-13-145-2016
13 Oct 2016
 | 13 Oct 2016

An overview of the use of Facebook in National Weather Services

Virginia Palacio, Olatz Principe, Maialen Martija, and Santiago Gaztelumendi

Data sets

Analyze and monitor your Facebook Pages LikeAlyzer http://www.Likealyzer.com

Overview of worldwide National Meteorological Services World Weather Information Service http://worldweather.wmo.int/en/home.html

Web of Facebook Company Information Facebook http://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/

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Short summary
Facebook is one of the most used social networks and it represents a perfect virtual platform to share information and to promote active and immediate interaction amongst users. This is why many NMSs develop new communication strategies and incorporate this tool for different purposes. In this paper we investigate how Facebook was introduced in different NMSs worldwide as an additional tool for the diffusion of meteorological information and interction with users.