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SWFDP – RA1 Sub-project Severe Weather Forecasting in Africa using NWP Products

SWFDP – RA1 Sub-project Severe Weather Forecasting in Africa using NWP Products. WMO CBS-DPFS RSMC Pretoria, SAWS Met Office/ACMAD NCEP ECMWF. Welcome!. Ian Lisk – Course Director. Course Introduction. Course Administration Course Aim and Contents The course team Introducing yourself

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SWFDP – RA1 Sub-project Severe Weather Forecasting in Africa using NWP Products

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  1. SWFDP – RA1 Sub-projectSevere Weather Forecasting in Africa using NWP Products WMO CBS-DPFS RSMC Pretoria, SAWS Met Office/ACMAD NCEP ECMWF Welcome! Ian Lisk – Course Director

  2. Course Introduction • Course Administration • Course Aim and Contents • The course team • Introducing yourself • Questions.

  3. Course Administration • Working hours • 0900 to 1700 • Breaks • 15 minutes mid-morning • 15 minutes mid-afternoon • Lunch • 1245-1345

  4. Emergencies… • Fire Alarm • Leave building by nearest available exit • Toilets • Across entrance hall on other side of building • Smoking • Is permitted only outside of SAWS building.

  5. Please… …switch off mobile phones during the presentation and practical sessions … turn PC monitors off during presentation sessions … talk quietly when in entrance hall – the SAWS building is open-plan.

  6. Course Aim and Contents ‘To enable African forecasters to be able to effectively access and utilise deterministic and probabilistic NWP products to more accurately forecast severe weather events.’ • SWFDP-RA1 implementation plan • Course website http://www.met-elearning.org/moodle • Course timetable • Course objectives • Course notes • CD-ROM of PowerPoint presentations • Course review.

  7. The course team • Peter Chen, WMO Secretariat • Ian Lisk, UK Met Office • Paul Davies, UK Met Office • Ralph Petersen, US • Ervin Zsoter, ECMWF • Dr. Vadlamani Kumar, US

  8. Over to you.. • Name and nationality • Meteorological background • NWP products that you currently use in your every day work • Severe weather warnings issued by your office and what customers these warnings go to • Non work-related interesting fact about yourself…

  9. Any questions so far?

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