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  • Introduce yourself to the other course participants and to the lecturers (click here to go to the forum). Please add your introduction to those who participated to the January and February course.
  • Prepare a poster (click here for guidance, maximum size for poster: A1)
  • Complete Activity 1) Listen to the slidecasts on "Ensemble forecasting" and complete the questionnaire: click here to find out more
  • Complete Activity 2) Listen to the slide cast on "Estimating the model climate" and complete the questionnaire: click here to find out more
  • Complete Activity 3) The forecast process (click here for guidance and document uploading facility)
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    The course is suitable for those who have a genuine interest in ECMWF forecasting products and want to exploit fully the potential of these products in their daily duties, whether they are producing forecast bulletins or taking decisions that are affected by weather phenomena.

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    The course is a mixture of standard classroom lectures and practical activities where real weather cases are analysed in details and attendees are expected to report on at the end of the training week. Networking among the attendees is encouraged by allocating time for the participants to present their work and share their previous experience with ECMWF products.

    The aim of the course is to provide the students with background knowledge to help them to make an informed use of ECMWF NWP products and to introduce students to novel products

    At the end of the course, the participants will be able:

    • to master to use of ensemble forecasts
    • to understand potentials and weaknesses of NWP products
    • to use novel forecast products
    • to use ECMWF products for forecast guidance
    • to make use of ECMWF products in decision making

    The course is assessed by means of an online survey which allows the participants to include their feedback and suggestions for improvements. The learning outcomes are assessed separately using a self-evaluation method.

     



    Pre-course programme

    A list of All pre-course activities are on the Learning Portal (learning.ecmwf.int).

    is indicated below. Please note that these activities are integral part of the course and by completing them you will be able to get the most benefit out of the training week.

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    titleTimetable (draft) -- 3rd to 6th October 2016

    PLEASE NOTE: the course starts at 1.45 pm on Monday 3rd October 2016, and finishes at 1pm on Thursday 6th October 2016.

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    The pre-course learning and activities will take around 12 hours to complete.



    Programme

    The programme for the course is available on the Learning Portal (learning.ecmwf.int). The February 2021 course will be fully virtual and held via Zoom. All details can be found in the Learning Portal.



    Virtual Laboratory Groups

    During the Virtual Laboratory work attendees will be split into groups. The Breakout Groups function in Zoom will be utilised with participants encouraged to share screens and docments to complete the work.

    We have created a Confluence page for each Group to facilitate the sharing of information / images / documents etc however please feel free to use other methods of sharing if you prefer.

    Workspace for Group 1 - Fernando

    Workspace for Group 2 - Linus

    Workspace for Group 3 - Mohamed

    Workspace for Group 4 - Ivan

    Workspace for Group 5 - Tim


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    Survey OP-I, OP-II and OP-III 2016

     

     

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    SLIDECASTs

    if you cannot play it, please download the MP4 file (right click and choose 'Save link as' ) and play it locally with Windows media player, or quicktime or VLC (free software)

    ecCharts

    Please click here to find out how to get a userid and password

    Description of case studies

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    Lectures form pervious edition of the course (please note that the lectures from the 2016 course will be available shortly before the course)

    You can download:

    • The 2016 lectures from here
    • Recording of the lectures from 2015 are available here. Click on the title to get the mp4 (if you cannot play it, please download the MP4 file by right clicking and choosing 'Save link as' . Play it locally with Windows media player, or quicktime or VLC (free software))
    • The 2015 lectures from here

     

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    EUMETCAL e-training module on verification:

    The link below will take you to an e-training module on verification methods. There are four parts to it: Introduction, Verification of continuous variables, Verification of categorical forecasts and Verification of probability and ensemble forecasts. This module will help you to learn about verification techniques for deterministic and probability forecast. Try to complete all the parts and in case you run out of time look at the Introduction, Verification of categorical forecasts and Verification of probability and ensemble forecasts. There will be a verification session during the training week when verification techniques will be discussed starting from the exercises you have done in the module and your practical verification activity:

    VERIFICATION METHODS