Weather natural hazards, the environment and climate change are of concern to all of us. Especially, it is essential to understand how human activities might impact the nature. Hence, monitoring, research, and forecasting is of the outmost importance. Furthermore, climate change and pollution of the environment do not obey national borders; so, international collaboration on these issues is indeed extremely important. In the future, the increasing computer power and understanding of physical processes pave the way for developing integrated models of the Earth system and gives a possibility to include interactions between atmosphere, environment, climate, ocean, cryosphere and ecosystems
