World Weather Research Programme

WWRP advances society's ability to cope with high impact weather through research focused on improving the accuracy, lead time and utilization of weather prediction. The WWRP includes working groups, experts teams and the THORPEX programme.

2012

• Nowcasting Working Group Meeting
  (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 11-12 August 2012)

• 3rd WMO International Symposium on Nowcasting and Very-Short Range Forecasting
  (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 6-10 August 2012)
  (originally planned from 20 to 24 August in Rio de Janeiro)
  
  

• Dynamics and predictability of high-impact weather and climate events
  (Kunming, China, 6-9 August 2012)
  

• 16th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation
  (Leipzig, Germany, 30 July - 3 August 2012)

• Third International Polar Year (IPY) 2012 -"From Knowledge to Action" Conference
  (Montreal, Canada from 22-27 April 2012)

• Fifth session of the Joint Scientific Committee (JSC) for OPAG-WWRP
  (Geneva, WMO Headquarters, 11-13 April 2012)

• Steering Group meeting of the Polar Prediction Research Project
  (Montreal, Canada, 27-28 March 2012)

• Meeting of the Sub-seasonal to Seasonal Prediction Research Project
  (Geneva, WMO Headquarters, 22-23 March 2012)
  
  Information for participants

• International Conference on Opportunities and Challenges in Monsoon
  (Pune, India, 21-25 February 2012)

• 2nd International Conference on Indian Ocean Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change
  (New Delhi, India, 14-17 February 2012)
  
  

2011

• Training Courses on Tropical Cyclone Ensemble Forecasts (Nanjing, China, 14-16 December 2011)
  
  
  Group photo
  
  
  Presentations
  
  

Forecasting and Warning of Tropical Cyclones in China - Part I
Yihong Duan and Yinglong Xu
The Typhoon Numerical Prediction System in NMC/CMA - Part II
Yihong Duan and Suhong Ma

Severe Weather Forecasting and Disaster Risk Reduction Demonstration Project (SWFDDP)
James Lunny

WMO/THORPEX Activities for Tropical Cyclones
Tetsuo Nakazawa

Uncertainty cones deduced from an ensemble prediction system
Matthieu Plu, Thierry Dupont, Philippe Caroff et Ghislain Faure

Ensemble Forecasting at RSMC La Réunion
Matthieu Plu, Thierry Dupont, Sébastien Langlade, Nicole Girardot

The THORPEX Interactive Global Ensemble (TIGGE) Multi-model ensembles and Tropical cyclone forecasting
Richard Swinbank

Long-range Tropical Cyclone Forecasting at ECMWF
Frederic Vitart

Topic 0 - Introduction - Tropical Cyclone Ensemble Forecast
Topic 1 - Tropical Cyclone Movement
Topic 2 - Initial Condition Sensitivity of Typhoon Track Prediction in the Western North Pacific
Topic 3 - Observing System Experiments for Typhoon Conson (2004)
Topic 5 - On the Relative Benefits of Multi-Center Grand Ensemble for Tropical Cyclone Track Prediction in the Western North Pacific
Topic 6 - North Western Pacific Tropical Cyclone Track Ensemble Forecast (NWP-TCTEF
Topic 7 - Ensemble Initial Perturbations and Their Growth for Tropical Cyclone Forecasts
Munehiko Yamaguchi

Global Ensemble Forecast System
Yuejian Zhu

Verification of TC Tracks and Intensity Forecasts
Yuejian Zhu

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• Targeted Observations for Improving Numerical Weather Prediction: An overview
  (THORPEX No15)

• WWRP/THORPEX Kick off meeting of the Polar Prediction Research Project (Geneva, WMO Headquarters, 30 November - 1 December 2011)
  
  Documentation Plan
  Presentations
  Group photo
  Final report

• Kick-off meeting of the WWRP/THORPEX/WCRP Sub-seasonal to Seasonal Prediction Research Project
  Geneva, WMO Headquarters, 2-3 December 2011
  
  Documentation Plan
  Presentations
  Group photo
  Minutes