by Jaakko Karppanen.

As a contribution towards the EUMETCAL activities, DWD and EUMETSAT organise a new MeteoCAL workshop from the 14th to the 16th of February 2006 in the facilities of DWD in Langen, Germany.

Goals for this workshop include:

Introduce CAL generation to newcomers

Develop a (...)

by Jose Prieto.

We plan to organise a new meteocal workshop 14-16 February 2006.

Goals:

Find new developing strategies

Introduce the topic and the CAL generation tools to newcomers

Develop a complete module

Would you be interested to participate?

José (...)

by Hans Bauer.

Dear Colleagues,

The Steering Group in March 2006 has decided to have the next Workshop in Langen (28 - 30 August 2006) in a similar way as the one in the previous year.

We will have presentations on all the recent developments in the Eumetrain and Eumetcal projects.

I would be (...)

by Jaakko Karppanen.

Next online training event will come from NOMEK course in Helsinki.

Date and time: 3 April 2006 at 0945-1030 UTC (online session starts at 0930 with logging-in process).Presenter and topic: Sheldon Johnston (SMHI): Turbulence and IcingDuration: 45 minutes.

Lesson zip (...)

by Jaakko Karppanen.

What do you think Moodle could do for you? How should it look like and what content should there be in this learning environment? Post your comments here and the Eumetcal development team will take your ideas into consideration when making changes to the site. (...)

by Roger Deslandes.

Hi folks - I’m not sure whether this forum is being made use of widely by the Working Group but I think it is a great idea. Thanks to Jaakko for putting it together.

Roger Deslandes

by Jaakko Karppanen.

The new Eumetcal Virtual College website was launched on 6 November 2006. This webpage is based entirely on Open Source Moodle-technology. The Graphical layout was developed by Jaakko Karppanen.

by Jaakko Karppanen.

Eumetcal structured virtual learning courses received the final approval from the EUMETNET council on 15 September 2006. In the same meeting the Eumetcal programme was continued until 30 June 2012.

by Jaakko Karppanen.

Eumetcal Courses to begin in 2007

Based on the strong support from the member community and EUMETNET, Eumetcal is now expanding its activities into blended learning (combination of distance and classroom learning) courses. The first course will be devoted to aviation (...)

by Jaakko Karppanen.

A warm thank you for all who have sent applications to the Aviation Meteorology course. We have received applications from 15 different institutions and will start the selection process immediately. All candidates will be informed before christmas on the outcome. See you (...)

by Jaakko Karppanen.

Eumetcal NWP Course 22 October - 14 December 2007

The second Eumetcal blended learning course will be devoted to Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) for forecasters and delivered by FMI in collaboration with Met.no, ECMWF, DWD and ZAMG from 22 October to 14 December 2007 (...)

by Jaakko Karppanen.

We can happily conclude that the Advanced Aviation blended learning course was a tremendous success. A warm thank you to the ENM team in Toulouse for all the hard work done for the course and many thanks to all of the students of this course.

The course proved the (...)

by Jaakko Karppanen.

Application for the Eumetcal NWP Course organised by the FMI in cooperation with ECMWF, DWD, Met.no and ZAMG is now closed. We received 15 applications of which 13 were selected for the course 22/10 - 14/12/2007. All selected participants have been informed of the outcome (...)

by Jaakko Karppanen.

Weather Radar Applications in Nowcasting for Weather Forecasters DWD, DLR, FMI, ABoM, MSC, Romania Location

Classroom session in DWD Training and Conference Centre (BTZ), Langen, Germany

Students

Minimum amount of students required: 10

Maximum amount of students (...)

by Jaakko Karppanen.

The second Eumetcal Blended Learning Course on applications of Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) methods will begin today at 12 UTC in distance with the 15 participants and 5 teachers joining in on the session. The course will go on until 14 December with a 4-day session (...)

by Jaakko Karppanen.

The Eumetcal virtual college Moodle site is the proud host of the EUMETSAT Moodle workshop that will be held 22-24 January in Darmstadt, EUMETSAT HQ. To go to he workshop course page click here. The workshop instructors are Alex Barasa (Nairobi), Jaakko Karppanen (...)

by Jaakko Karppanen.

Eumetcal Aviation Online Course

Awareness of significant weather phenomena for aeronautics

LOCATION: Ecole Nationale de la Météorologie, Météo-France, Toulouse

NUMBER OF VACANCIES: 15, with 5 students minimum to carry out the course

DATES: 1 September to 7 November 2008 (...)

by Jaakko Karppanen.

Weather Radar Applications in Nowcasting for Weather Forecasters

Eumetcal Course

Delivered by the DWD, Course Director Dr. Wilfried Jacobs ([email protected])

In cooperation with DLR, FMI, ABoM, MSC, DHZ and INMH

Location

Classroom session in DWD Training and (...)

by Vesa Nietosvaara.

Announcing the Eumetcal Satellite Meteorology Course Training Course on the Principles of Satellite Meteorology

Host institutes

The course is jointly organised by Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) and EUMETSAT

Location

Classroom sessions in DWD Training and Conference (...)

by Vesa Nietosvaara.

Announcing the Eumetcal NWP Applications Course IntroductionThe Eumetcal NWP Applications course will take place 27 October - 4 December 2009. The course will be the second NWP course offered by Eumetcal, and it will be hosted by the Finnish Meteorological Institute.

The (...)