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Announcing the Eumetcal Flash Workshop
by Alessandro Chiariello - Friday, 20 November 2009, 03:18 PM
 

Announcing the Eumetcal Flash workshop

Do not miss this unique opportunity to learn the basics of FLASH. Eumetcal offers you top-level instructors and an efficient learning environment to let you move your first steps in building distance learning modules.

Flash workshop is also very interesting for those developing web-based meteorological applications or realizing web pages.

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Announcing Eumetcal NWP Applications Course
by Vesa Nietosvaara - Monday, 7 September 2009, 01:32 PM
 

Announcing the Eumetcal NWP Applications Course

Introduction

The 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 goal of this course is to help students to understand output from numerical weather prediction models and apply this output. These skills will benefit forecasters, researchers, and users of models.

Target audience

Operational weather forecasters and young scientists working on numerical modeling.

Topics

  • The use of short-range ensemble products
  • The appropriate use of mesoscale models
  • Air-Surface interactions and physical parameterisation
  • Resolving Convection in NWP models
  • Recent advances in mesoscale data assimilation
  • Model monitoring and the human role in forecasting

Prerequisites

  • A basic knowledge of numerical modeling applied to meteorology
  • Interest in NWP applications
  • Working knowledge in the English language

Language

The course will be taught in English. No translation will be offered, and the participant is expected to be fluent in English.

Course Format

The course consists of both online and classroom parts. During the online phase, the students will be expected to take part in the 8 distance-learning days. Each day will include 1-2 online sessions (60 minutes each), respective offline assignments, and individual work on a selected research project.

The classroom phase at FMI, Helsinki, will consist of lectures, laboratory exercises and simulations, weather map discussions and group discussions between modelers and forecasters.

The instructors

A team of enthusiastic instructors will be working hard to make this NWP course useful and interesting learning experience for the participants.

Applications

Applications open 07 July 2009
Application deadline 24 August 2009
Students selected by 4 September 2009
Participants selected, information on selection sent by 11 September 2009
Minimum amount of students required: 12
Maximum amount of students allowed: 22

Dates and duration

Course start date: 27 October 2009

Distance dates (usually two online sessions, one in the morning UTC, another in the afternoon UTC). The students are requested to reserve the whole day for the course activities.

- Tue 27 October
- Thu 29 October
- Wed 11 November
- Fri 13 November
- Tue 17 November
- Thu 19 November
- Tue 24 November
- Thu 26 November

Distance phase: 14 hours of online learning, 12 hours of offline assignments, 22 hours of Research Project
Classroom phase: Mon 30 November – 4 December (5 days, 31 hours)
Course end date:4 December 2009

Total

4,5 days classroom + 4 weeks distance learning. The distance phase is equivalent of 48 hours of work. Total equivalent 79 hours of training.

Tuition fee

500 EUR.
FMI participants are waived from the course fee.




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