Central Weather Administration
The Central Weather Administration (CWA; Chinese: 交通部中央氣象署; pinyin: Jiāotōng Bù Zhōngyāng Qìxiàng Shǔ) is the government meteorological research and forecasting institution of Taiwan (the Republic of China).While Taiwan was under Japanese rule, the government set up five weather monitoring stations on the island, located in Taipei, Taichung, Tainan, Hengchun, and Penghu.It also issues severe weather advisories for conditions including heavy rain, cold snaps, typhoons and storms, and dense fog.[13] The Administration also includes the following departments: The CWA building is accessible within walking distance South from NTU Hospital Station of the Taipei Metro.A research supercomputer shared between the Central Weather Administration and CAA was listed by TOP500 as the world's 313rd most powerful computer in 2002, obtaining 0.2 TFlop/s with 25 300MHz cores.