WMO RAVI Pilot Regional Climate Centre Network

Workshop to demonstrate capacities and tools to increase benefits to NMHSs of the WMO RA VI Pilot Regional Climate Centre (RCC) Network

Regional Climate Centres are institutions with the capacity and mandate by WMO to develop high quality regional-scale products, using global products, national input and incorporating regional information. Recently a pilot network of three Regional Climate Centre consortia was established for the WMO region RAVI (Europe and Middle East; one on Climate Data, one on Climate Monitoring and one on Long Range Forecasting).

The tentative agenda for the workshop is:

  1. Welcome and Introduction - Stefan Rösner (DWD) and Aryan van Engelen (KNMI)

    The aims of the workshop are: to bring together representatives of NMHS's to demonstrate the capacities/capabilities of the existing RCC Network in the region; to explore the existing RCC-applications; to discuss potential barriers which hamper collaboration within the RCC; to discuss opportunities to enhance the benefits for your NMHS; to discuss potential new applications which respond to user needs.

  2. Pilot RCC Node on Climate Data - Albert Klein Tank (KNMI) and Gé Verver (KNMI)

    The European Climate Assessment & Dataset (ECA&D) project provides RCC services for daily station data and indices of extremes. The main RCC services will be described and demonstrated. This will be followed by a hands-on training exercise to explore the different RCC functionalities and provide immediate feedback. The discussion will concentrate on those applications which add value to the existing national services, for instance considering national climatologies in a transboundary context.

  3. EUMETGRID project - Ole Einar Tveito (Met.no)

    The objectives of the EUMETGRID project are to develop and maintain a sustainable pan-European data infrastructure for accessing and distributing gridded climate information, based on the NMHS's observational network, databases and meteorological infrastructure. The concept and future potential of this decentralized approach will be discussed and illustrated on the basis of several examples.

  4. Pilot RCC Node on Climate Monitoring - Stefan Rösner (DWD) and Peter Bissolli (DWD)

    The main RCC services will be described and demonstrated. This will be followed by a hands-on session in which the monitoring products for a particular month will be reproduced on the basis different datasets.

  5. RCC on Long-range forecasting (RCC-LRF) – Jean Pierre Céron (Météo-France)

    The functions and products of the RCC nodes on long-range forecasts jointly led by Météo France and the Nort EurAsia Climate Centre (NEACC) will be described and future developments highlighted.