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PLEASE NOTE: the course starts at 9.30am on Monday 6th February, and finishes at 4pm on Friday 10th February 2017.

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PLEASE NOTE: the course starts at 9.30am on Monday 30th January, and finishes at 4pm on Friday 3rd February 2017.

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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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  • Introduce yourself to the other course participants and to the lecturers (click here to go to the forum).
  • Prepare a poster (click here for guidance, maximum size for poster: A1), if you want us to print the poster click here

 

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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 2017

 

 

 

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ecCharts

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

Description of case studies

Case study: Winter 2014

Case study: Seasonal and monthly outlooks

Case study: Summer 2016

Case study: Precipitation in the Gulf of Genoa

Case study: Welsh snowfalls

 

 

 

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 2017 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