EUMETCAL AND NIMH

Gergana Kozinarova Anastassia Stoycheva

Lora Taseva

2010 Bulgaria joined EUMETCAL as a full member

EUMETCAL made a cyclonic trip trough the Balkans and came to

Bulgaria

Many courses and weeks with

practical use

Benefits for us:

New ideas for

activities

Have a big family-can always ask

and get help

Benefits for EUMETCAL:

Time to become not only users

?

Our Education/Training center

The new Director

The new activities:•with students•with colleagues from NIMH Regional Centers •With tv-presentators and journalists

Feedback from the students and university colleagues

• More attention on problems not studied in the bachelor level

• More practical sessions

• The theoretical background not good enough for making real weather forecast

• More attention on the radar Information and its use in performing weather forecasts

• Practical sessions on long range weather forecasts suitable for group or individual work

• Discuss new types of instruments for meteorological measurement

• Practical lessons in the Dept. for Marine Forecasts

For 2011 meteorological practice

Feedback from the students

Feedback from Sofia University

colleagues

Feedback from the NIMH colleagues

Improvements of the practice program:-Train the colleagues from the University

-Use interesting cases-Concentrate on the output

of one global/regional NWP model

Meteorological education for non meteorologists:

•TV presentators•Journalists•Users

Forecasters predict -40…

Nobody can predict -30!

Why?

Why?

How?

THANKSTHANKS