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The aim of this page is to provide information and resources for the training course OP-WMO.  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.

The courses are 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 courses are 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.

 

Resources and Activities

 

Pre-course activities

 EUMETCAL e-training modules:

The following modules will help you to learn about verification techniques for deterministic and probability forecast. Following the link below and complete the modules. There will be a 'Taking stock' session during the training week when verification techniques will be discussed starting from the exercises you have done in the modules:

VERIFICATION METHODS

 

WEBCASTs

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)

This video was recorded during a lecture on Operational forecasting at ECMWF. It discusses briefly the components of the ECMWF forecasting system and products (about 20 minutes)

This lecture describes the monitoring system for conventional (in situ) observations. These observations are assimilated in the forecasting system and therefore an assessment of their quality is crucial to guarantee the best quality of initial conditions for the model forecast (about 50 minutes)

Practicals

Case studies 

  1. Sandy (instructor led tutorial)
  2. Nadine and forecast jumpiness (instructor led tutorial)
  3. Heat wave in Europe and USA – summer 2012
  4. Floods in Italy – Autumn 2012
  5. Windstorm in Scotland – January 2012
  6. Cold wave in Europe – January/February 2012
  7. Heavy snowfall in the Balkans (Dec. 2012) and Italy (Feb. 2012)

 

You will be able to download lectures from here. Just click on the title!

Lecturer
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
E. Andersson
Introducing ECMWF
    
P. Bechtold
  
Model Physics
  
J. Bidlot
    
Wave forecasting
M. Dahoui
  
Use of satellite observations
  
L. Ferranti
 
Seasonal forecasts: how do they work and how do we assess their value?
MJO and Monsoons
  
L. Isaksen
    
Data assimilation
F. Prates
  
Forecasting tropical cyclones in the medium range
  
D. Richardson
Ensemble forecasts: can they help making decisions?
    
I. Tsonevsky
 
Forecasting extreme events
   

 

 

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