Series of Severe Convective Storms Testbeds

ESSL and EUMETSAT are organising a series of testbeds to prepare forecasters from the EUMETSAT Member States for data from Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) and Metop Second Generation (Metop-SG) satellites.

Testbeds are a useful approach for teaching forecasting severe convective storms using state-of-the-art or experimental forecasting tools, as well as for evaluating the tools.

During a testbed, forecasters learn by doing, by making severe weather forecasts and nowcasts using a mix of new nowcasting and forecasting tools, followed by a verification.

Particular focus is given to the use of proxy-MTG satellite data and, once operationally available, real data from MTG, preparing forecasters for the use of next-generation satellite data. A range of state-of-the-art nowcasting tools and numerical weather prediction-based guidance will be evaluated.

Dates & locations for 2024:

• • 13-17 May, ESSL Research and Training Centre (Wiener Neustadt, Austria)
• • 3-7 June, EUMETSAT (Darmstadt, Germany)
• • 1-5 July, ESSL Research and Training Centre (Wiener Neustadt, Austria)
• • 16-20 September, ESSL Research and Training Centre (Wiener Neustadt, Austria)
• • 7-11 October, ESSL Research and Training Centre (Wiener Neustadt, Austria)

Keep an eye on the Training Calendar for more information.

International Summer School on Applications with the Newest Multi-spectral Environmental Satellites

The Italian Air Force - Department of Meteorology and EUMETSAT are organising the International Summer School on Applications with the Newest Multi-spectral Environmental Satellites. This year's advanced course aims to discuss remote-sensing principles, methods and techniques for extracting information from the environmental satellite data (both GEO and LEO), with an emphasis on the latest measuring technologies, the new MTG mission.

The course will consist of lectures, laboratory sessions, group lab projects and tests. Throughout the course, participants will be actively engaging with satellite data using visualisation tools such as SIFT, McIDAS-V and Jupyter Notebooks.

Nominated participants from EUMETSAT members can apply via the Training Calendar.

Forecaster's Event Week

Between 3 - 7 June, EUMeTrain is organising a very practice-oriented event week - the Forecaster's Week. For one week, there will be lectures and workshops on topics clearly related to weather forecasting. The spectrum of lectures ranges from aviation meteorology, sahara sand to convection and RGBs. The working methods of various weather services, their country-specific challenges and products will also be highlighted this week. As always with our Event Weeks, the presentations will also be recorded. Further information will be made available on the EUMeTrain website.

If you have any questions or suggestions for further topics, please contact:
liliane.hofer@geosphere.at or christian.resch@geosphere.at.

Join us to learn about ocean extremes

This year, the 55th International Liege Colloquium will focus on ocean extremes. The final day of this event, which runs from 27 May to 31 May, will be dedicated to training on the use of tools to identify and characterise these extremes. As part of this, EUMETSAT will conduct a 3-hour practical session on the use of satellite data to monitor physical and biogeochemical ocean systems, providing workflows focussed on detecting harmful algal blooms, extreme waves, sea ice minima and marine heatwaves.

These workflows, which will consist of a series of Python-based Jupyter Notebooks, will be made available in a cloud computing environment, and will cover the use of EUMETSAT Marine Earth observation products from the Copernicus Programme and those generated from our Mandatory Missions by our Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application facility.

Product experts will be on site to answer any questions participants have about our programmes, missions and data.

For more information on how to register for the colloquium, including the training session, please visit the this link.

The EUMETSAT training team looks forward to seeing you there!

The National Severe Weather Warning Service at the Met Office

Established in the wake of a major windstorm over the UK in October 1987, the National Severe Weather Warning Service is the Met Office's flagship weather warning service.

This impact-based public warnings services uses a matrix to communicate the likelihood and impact of a number of weather hazards, in particular the general public and emergency planning and responder communities.

In this webinar, one of the Met Office's Chief Operational Meteorologists, who is responsible for issuing these warnings, will talk through the warnings service, explaining how warnings are made and what the matrix used to communicate the warnings is used. One of the Senior Scientists in the Weather Impacts Science Team who has developed some of the decision aids used to make these warnings will discuss aspects of these decision aids. Finally, there will also be input from the Met Office Civil Contingencies Advisors who are involved in communicating these warnings to the emergency responder community.

The webinar will be presented by Dan Suri (UKMO). It will take place on Thursday 25 April 2024 at 11:00 UTC / 13:00 CEST. It is free and open for everyone.

Register here.

AIs in Education webinar

EUMETCAL is announcing a webinar on AI in Education: Customizing ChatGPT for Enhanced Support and Interaction in Educational Activities to take place on 2 May, 13:00 UTC.

This webinar delves into an array of AI solutions currently transforming educational activities, spotlighting ChatGPT’s versatile applications. We'll guide you through the process of tailoring ChatGPT to meet specific educational needs, enhancing its utility in creating learning materials. Join us to explore how AI not only augments current educational practices, but also paves the way for future innovations.

Register here.

WGCEF webinars

Two more WG CEF webinars have been scheduled in the upcoming months - MeteoSwiss warning system by Josué Gehring on 23 May 2024 and IMO warning system by Helga Ívarsdóttir on 20 June 2024. Both webinars start at 11:00 UTC. Further details will be made available in future.

Both webinars are free and open for everyone.

Register here:

MeteoSwiss, warning system

IMO warning system

EUMeTrain Weather Briefings

Once a month EUMeTrain organizes a Weather Briefing open to everyone to discuss the present weather situation. The basis of the discussions are today's satellite images and the corresponding numerical weather prediction data. A basic knowledge on conceptual models used in satellite meteorology is of advantage to follow the presentations.

The Weather Briefings are offered by meteorologists from Croatia, Portugal, Finland, Hungary and Austria. At the end of the briefings, participants have the opportunity to discuss with the presenters. Find them here or on the EUMeTrain channel on YouTube.

To find out about the future Weather Briefings, go here or keep an eye on the Training Calendar.