EUMETCAL High Impact Weather (HIW)

Working Group Langen, 20091102

Participants

• Erik Hagemark (MetNo)

• Heleen Pelkwijk (KNMI)

• Izolda Marcinoniene (MetLituania)

• Michael Staudinger (EUMETNET EMMA /ZAMG)

• Nuno Moreira (IM)

• Ramon Vazquez (AEMET)

High Impact Weather The past year …

• 1 on-line meeting• Research/Search on:

– Support Forecasters and Local trainers• Simulators• CALs• Society perspective

– Prepare Contents for Courses:• ECMWF EFI

• Moodle site update with acquired material

Severe Weather Database

• These kind of databases are generally too linked to each met. Service.

• The Group agreed not to take specific action on this topic, but decided to inform the EUMETCAL community that the group may help on organizing locally databases on High Impact Weather, if requested.

Tasks for next 12 months

1 - Finalize HIW syllabus and put online next to radar syllabus in EUMETCAL page

Cyclones ; Convection ; Winter Weather

(January 2010)

Tasks for next 12 months

2 – Contribution to EumeTrain Thematic weeks with High Impact Weather perspective:

Snow Week (2-5 February 2010):

– 2 presentations from the group

Warning Week (2nd Week of October)

- 1 presentation already proposed, but others to set

Tasks for next 12 months

3 – Cooperate with EUMETNET EMMA program:

- WG members participation in Meteoalarm forum (1st feedbacks by January 2010)

- Case studies development on Warning Decision and Issue Procedures as the key topic (November 2010)

Tasks for next 12 months 4 – Template for Simulator of warning cases (and also non-

warning!)

Why? Because each Met. Service has its own way of dealing with warnings

Advantage? Each Met. Service can include its own material

How? Cooperation with Techical solutions WG aiming to a joint workshop on Flash for trainers (late 2010?)

(WG meeting May 2010)