Eumetcal Working Group Radar (WGR) was established in 2005. WGR is an open Working Group to anybody involved in training of radar meteorology. Elena Saltikoff from the Finnish Meteorological Institute is the present Chairman of WGR (formerly Jarmo Koistinen) and Wilfried Jacobs from the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) is the Content Manager of the radar material in the EUMETCAL Library.

To understand your needs and existing resources, we have opened two questionnaires in the web. Please take a few minutes to fill out the web questionnaires (7 and 4 questions, easy):

Q1: "Radar Training Materials"

Q2: "Radar Training Needs"

First one helps us to understand the needs of different institutes. The second one helps us to locate the gaps - where to put future development efforts. Please take some minutes and fill the forms. We wait for your reply until Christmas. Note that your response will not be interpreted as a commitment to the work but just shows your interest and wish to hear more of this effort.

The goal of this phase of the project is to create a syllabus: a list of contents of a training course in Radar meteorology for forecasters. It is hoped that such a syllabus might finally contain e.g. your training materials. Note: this is not about academic studies, this is not about too deep radar technology - this is teaching the people who look at radar images and write weather forecasts. As typically each institute gives training in their national language, most valuable shared materials will probably be images, graphs, animations and quizzes.

If you are interested in participating in the activities of this group you can subscribe to group’s mailing list at

  http://www.eumetcal.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/radar

by contacting the Training Support Officer, Elena Saltikoff (elena.saltikoff ( a ) fmi.fi) or Wilfried Jacobs (wilfired.jacobs ( a ) dwd.de) directly.