First WMO RCC-Washington International Training Workshop

• Date: 30 September - 4 October 2019
• Venue: NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction
            Climate Prediction Center
            5830 University Research Court
            College Park, Maryland 20740

Objective: The first international training workshop of the WMO RCC-Washington is designated to be hands-on with a focus on sub-seasonal forecasting, and more specifically, the forecast of rainfall and temperature at the week-2 time scale.

• List of participants
• Provisional agenda
• Photos of the training workshop

Session I: The WMO Regional Climate Centres and WMO Initiatives

• WMO infrastructure for long-range forecasts, Arun Kumar, CPC/NOAA
• WMO Climate Services Information Toolkit, Marina Timofeyeva, NWS/CSD
• Introduction to the WMO RCC-Washington, Wassila M. Thiaw, CPC/NOAA
• Introduction to the WMO RCC-Caribbean, Cédric Van Meerbeeck, CIMH

Session II: Interannual and Intraseasonal Modes of Variability

• The El Niño Southern Oscillation, Michelle L'Heureux, CPC/NOAA
• The Madden-Julian Oscillation and other equatorial waves, Jon Gottschalck, CPC/NOAA

Session III: Tools for Sub-Seasonal to Seasonal Forecasting and Forecast Operations

• Tools for sub-seasonal and seasonal forecasts, including model post-processing, calibration and consolidation, Dan Collins, CPC/NOAA
• NOAA’s procedures for operational sub-seasonal and seasonal forecasting, Daniel Harnos, CPC/NOAA
• Sub-seasonal and seasonal forecasting at Environment and Climate Change Canada, Marko Markovic, ECCC
• Sub-seasonal and seasonal forecasting at CIMH, Cédric Van Meerbeeck, CIMH
• Regional hazards outlooks, Miliaritiana Robjhon, CPC/NOAA

Session P1: Computer Software Requirements

Download the instructions to install the pre-requisite packages according to the operating systems:

• Windows users
• Linux users
• Macintosh users

Session P2: Linux Tutorial and Shell Scripting

• Introduction to Linux and Shell scripting, Pierre Kamsu, CPC/NOAA

Session P3: GrADS Tutorial

• Introduction to GrADS [data], Sarah Diouf, CPC/NOAA
• Practice GrADS

Session P4: Accessing and Post-Processing NCEP Data for Week-2 Forecasts

• Introduction to the use of NCEP GFS and CFSv2 for sub-seasonal forecasting, Endalkachew Bekele, CPC/NOAA
• Practice – Generating tools for week-2 forecasts [data]

Session P5: Real-Time Week-2 Forecasting

• Practice – Generating real-time week-2 forecasts [data]
• Template – Generating real-time week-2 forecasts

Session IV: Group Presentations

• Group 1: Western Caribbean
• Group 2: Eastern Caribbean
• Group 3: The Caribbean (Greater Antilles and Lesser Antilles)
• Group 4: Northern South America
• Group 5: Central America