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.

 

 


 

WEBCASTs

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Case studies 

  1. Strong tropical rainfall that affected Uganda in the beginning of March 2010. The rain caused
    landslides in the foot of the mountain ELgon and killed dozens of people.
  2. Midlatitude case study in 2012
  3. South Africa (rain and snow) – 2011
  4. TC MA-ON case 2011
  5. Tembin-Bolaven typhoons August 2012 - Tracks, EPS and deterministic
  6. Floods Pakistan September 2012 
  7. Let's talk about seasonal forecast! Browsing through the products

 

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
  
A. Garcia-Mendez
   
Monitoring the observing system
 
A. Ghelli
Operational forecasting at ECMWF (video/MP4)
Model verification: basic concepts
    
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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