Strategic Plan for World Weather Research Program (WWRP)

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WORLD WEATHER RESEARCH PROGRAMME Develops improved and cost effective weather forecasting techniques, with emphasis on high impact weather and promotes their application among Member States.

SYNOPTIC PREDICTABILITIES (THORPEX) A 10-year international research and development programme to accelerate improvements in the accuracy of one-day to two-week high impact weather forecasts for the benefit of society, the economy and the environment.
MESOSCALE WEATHER FORECASTING RESEARCH Promotes, organizes and/or endorses end-to-end weather research and development projects (RDPs) including understanding of weather processes, improving forecasting techniques and the utility of forecast information with an emphasis on high-impact weather.
TROPICAL METEOROLOGY RESEARCH Promotes, Identifies and supports research initiatives relevant to the high-impact weather forecast requirements of NMHSs in tropical and monsoon regions, and thus contribute to social and economic benefits by preventing or mitigating disasters via imporved forecasts of tropical cyclones and anomalous monsoon rainfall.
NOWCASTING Promotes and aids the implementation of nowcasting in the WWRP framework and within NMSs and among their end-users, including the potential use of numerical modelling and assimilation of very high resolution data.
VERIFICATION Facilitates the development and application of improved diagnostic verification methods to assess and enable improvement of the quality of weather forecasts, including forecasts from numerical weather and climate models.
SOCIETAL AND ECONOMIC APPLICATIONS Advances the science of the social and economic application of weather-related information and services and reviews and assists in the development and promotion of societal and economic-related demonstration projects.
Contact arep_at_wmo.int
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WWRP-TMR

• Tropical Cyclone Panel
• Expert Team on Observation, Processes and
  Prediction
• Expert Team on Landfall Processes
• Expert Team on Climate Impacts on TCs
• Limited Area NWP
• Monsoon Panel
• Expert Team on Severe Monsoon Weather
• Expert Team on Climate Impacts on Monsoon Weather
• Monsoon Activity Centers

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Monsoon Panel Strategy

• Climate Scales Global change, Decadal,
  Interannual, Seasonal, down to intraseasonal
• Cooperate with and support WCRP monsoon
  activities
• Cooperate with regional and international
  programs (e.g., APEC Climate Center)
• Research on Climate Impacts on local weather

• Weather Scales Convection, Meso-, Synoptic, up
  to Intraseasonal
• Regional and Local phenomena, effects of terrain
• Top priority Torrential rainfall, flooding
• Joint efforts with TMRP/TC component

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Activities

• Scientific and Training Workshops
• Review state of the art, current issues and
  future directions
• Facilitate researchers - forecasters interactions
  
• Relating research results to forecasters on an
  ongoing basis
• Update WMO Report on Monsoon for Member NMHSs.
• WMO Monsoon Activity Centres
• New Delhi (IMD South Asia)
• Kuala Lumpur (MMS Southeast Asia)
• Beijing (CMA, East Asia)
• Encourage, endorse and support weather scale
  monsoon research through regional and
  international cooperation

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Research Projects

• Encourage, endorse and support weather scale
  monsoon research through regional and
  international cooperation
• Examples
• SCHeREX Southern China Heavy Rainfall EXperiment
  (MAPHRISC CAMS/CMA, IAP/CAS)
• SoWMEX Southwest Monsoon EXperiment (CWB/NTU)
• TiMREX Terrain-induced Monsoon Rainfall
  EXperiment (NSF/NCAR)
• PHONE06-15 Pukyong Natl U - HyARC, Nagoya U
  Observation Network over East China Sea
• Relevant WWRP-TMR/TC Project
• TCS08 Tropical Cyclone Structure 08 (ONR/NRL/NPS)

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SoWMEX/TiMREX
SCHeREX
Doppler radars Dropsondes Upsondes Radiosondes
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PHONE06-15Pukyong N U and HyARC, Nagoya U
ObservationNetwork over East China Sea

• Nine-year observational project starting 2006
  over southern part of South Korea, East China
  Sea, and Okinawa
• Purposes
• Formation mechanisms of precipitation systems
  associated with the Meiyu/Baiu/Changma front and
  typhoons over ECS.
• Research in short-term forecasting of heavy
  rainfalls (QPE and QPF)
• Observations and Modeling
• Ground, sounding and satellite data
• Doppler radars
• Cloud resolving model
• Linkage
• Coordination with SoWMEX/TiMREX being planned.

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Doppler radars Radiosondes
Typhoon
PHONE06-15
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TCS08 Tropical Cyclone Structure 2008 Field
Project(WWRP/TMR Tropical Cyclone Research)

• August September 2008
• Equator 30N, Asian coast to Dateline
• Purposes
• TC Formation in western North Pacific monsoon
  trough .
• TC Evolution after Formation
• Observations
• Ground, sounding and satellite data
• Airborne wind Lidar and ELDORA Doppler radar
• Linkage
• Coordination with the concurrent WWRP/THORPEX
  Pacific Area Regional Campaign (T-PARC).

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Workshops

• IWM-4
• Time Late October 2008
• Location Beijing, China
• Cosponsored by CLIVAR AAMP
• Update WMO TD No. 1266 Global Monsoon Systems
  Research and Forecast. balance between climate
  and severe weather topics
• Possible
• 8th training workshop on monsoon (late 2008)
• Workshop on QPE/QPF of TC and monsoon (2009)