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Training Workshop on NOwcasting TEchniques:
T-NOTE
Buenos Aires, August 5-16, 2013
ENROLMENT INFORMATION
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T-NOTE will be held in Buenos Aires from 5 to 16 August 2013
by the WMO Regional Training Centre in Argentina
sponsored by
WMO WWRP
Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences -University of Buenos Aires-
National Meteorological Service
with the auspices of
Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera (CONICET/UBA)
Inter-American
Institute for Global Change Research (IAI)
INVAP.
1. Objectives
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To develop the areas of nowcasting and very short forecasting at the
regional level by means of comprehensive training activities on this field.
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To leverage the local capacity, so that a critical mass of trainers
can be formed under this activity (i.e., training of trainers).
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To interact with potential users of nowcasting in order to develop
new tools to their activities based on nowcasting products from measurements, remote
sensors,models and blending techniques available over the region.
2. Date and Venue
August
5 to 16, 2013. Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences -University
of Buenos Aires - Argentina.
Note: Trainees are expected to arrive in Buenos Aires on 4 August 2013
and depart on 17 August 2013.
3. Course Contents
The course includes:
1) Forecast Challenges in South America;
2) Radar Basics - Doppler and Polarimetric Radar;
3) Storm Detection & Extrapolation Techniques;
4) Satellite Basics, Satellite Applications & NOAA Products;
5) Quantitative Precipitation Estimation (QPE) Techniques;
6) Severe Weather Detection;
7) Lightning Detection & Applications;
8) MCS and severe weather in SESA;
9) CARDS system;
10) Science of Nowcasting;
11) Nowcast Process & Conceptual Models;
12) NWP Mesoscale Models & Assimilation;
13) Blended Nowcast Systems;
14) Auto nowcaster system;
15) Scale dependence of nowcasting skill by Lagrangian persistence and by NWP;
16) Ensemble forecasting and probabilistic forecasts;
17) Forecast verification.
4. Training Format
Lectures, laboratory practices, group discussion.
5. Instructors
Invited:
Paul Joe - Environment Canada.
Severe weather, CARDS, nowcasting applications.
Carlos Morales
- University of Sao Paulo. Lighting, radar and satellite meteorology.
Rita Roberts - NCAR. Radar interpretation, Nowcasting,
nowcast systems.
James Wilson – NCAR. Radar
intrepretation, Nowcasting, nowcast systems.
Isztar Zawadzki – McGill University. QPE, radar meteorology,
probabilistic forecasting.
Local:
Claudia Campetella –
SMN/ DCAO-FCEN-UBA. Forecast weather challenges/needs in SESA.
Lorena Ferreira - SMN. QPE, hydrological products, SMN
data.
Romina Mezher - INTA. Radar meteorology,
polarimetric radar.
Juan Ruiz - DCAO-FCEN-UBA/CIMA-UMI.
Data Assimilation, NWP, Verification.
Paola Salio – DCAO-FCEN-UBA/CIMA-UMI.
MCS, QPE, radar meteorology.
Celeste Saulo – DCAO-FCEN-UBA/CIMA-UMI. NWP, Verification, Data
Assimilation.
6. Language of Instruction
The course will be only conducted in English.
7. Targeted Trainees
Graduate students in atmospheric sciences, NMS personnel, members of WMO
RAIII and IV with background in meteorology.
Maximum number of attendees: 40.
8. Participants’ Qualifications for Admission
Participants are required:
a) To be specialized in weather forecasting with a minimum of one year’s professional experience; and/or to be conducting research in topics
related with short range weather prediction and/or high impact weather.
b) To be proficient in English.
9. Application and Admission
a) The applicants must be meteorologists who are working in the field of
weather forecasting or high impact weather. The candidates are requested to
Register in the course web page (http://www.cima.fcen.uba.ar/T-NOTE/) and submit the Application Form (ANNEX II) to the Organizing Committee for examination
and
endorsement.
b) Admission Notices will be issued to the accepted participants by
e-mail by the Organizing Committee. With the Admission Notices, the participants are requested to go through all the necessary formalities for entering
Argentina;
c) Only accepted applicants that receive the Admission Notices endorsed
by the Organizing Committee can participate in the training course.
10. Training Expenses
a) Tuition is free for all the accepted participants that receive the
endorsed Admission Notices by the Organizing Committee;
b) The international travel costs including round trip tickets, transit
fares and subsistence allowance during the travel and living expenses are to be
covered by participants, their respective governments, or through other
arrangements;
c) The expenses of visa, medical care, insurances and domestic salaries
for the participants should be borne by the participants.
11. Insurance
The organizer of the Training Course on Nowcasting does not hold any
responsibility for such risks as loss of life, accidents, illness, and loss of property
incurred during the whole period of participation in the training course.
12. Deadline for application
Application (see Application Form - ANNEX II) shall be submitted to Ms.
Paula Richter no later than
26 May 2013.
13. Liaison Information
Ms. Paula Richter
E-Mail: tnote.workshop@gmail.com
Postal address:
Dpto. Cs de la Atmósfera y los Océanos. FCEN-UBA
Pabellón II - 2do piso - Ciudad Universitaria
(C1428EHA) CABA - Argentina
Phone: 54 11 4576 3356 / 3364
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