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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