Endorsed and Partner Projects

Endorsed projects

North Atlantic Waveguide, Dry Intrusion, and Downstream Impact Campaign (NAWDIC)

(Linking to HiWeather and the Working Group on Predictability, Dynamics and Ensemble Forecasting (PDEF))

(2023 - 2026)

Purpose: NAWDIC is a new initiative for an international field campaign focusing on mid-latitude atmospheric dynamics with the aim to provide detailed observations for improving the understanding and modelling of the mesoscale tropopause structure, the dry intrusion air stream - PBL interaction, and their relation to high impact weather (HIW) in the North Atlantic region in winter. NAWDIC will build directly on insights from the North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream impact EXperiment.

Focal point: Julian Quinting

Founding partners of the NAWDIC Project:

Advancing Nowcasting with Deep Learning techniques (ANDel)

Linking with the ADVANCE Project (Aiding Decision-making in Vulnerable Africa with Nowcasting of ConvEction)

(2023 - 2026)

Purpose: The ANDel Project is a pioneering initiative aimed at revolutionizing weather forecasting in West Africa. Leveraging cutting-edge DL techniques, ANDel seeks to drastically improve the precision and timeliness of weather predictions. Traditional nowcasting approaches often face challenges due to the need for frequent calibration and limited real-time data access. In contrast, DL techniques can learn intricate patterns from historical data and satellite imagery, enabling highly accurate predictions with minimal human intervention.

Focal point: Jeffrey Nii Armah Aryee

Founding partners of the ANDel Project:

Weather and Climate Information Services (WISER): Early Warnings for Southern Africa (EWSA)

Linking with the ADVANCE Project (Aiding Decision-making in Vulnerable Africa with Nowcasting of ConvEction)

(2023 - 2025)

Purpose: The WISER EWSA team of meteorologists, academics, economists, and user engagement specialists from South Africa, Zambia, Mozambique and the UK will work with disaster risk management agencies and non-governmental organisations, focusing on women and people with disabilities to reduce disaster risk through the co-production of new satellite based nowcasting information and services for early warnings.

Focal point: Douglas Parker

Founding partners of the WISER-EWSA project:

Atmospheric River Reconnaissance (AR-Recon)

Linking with Integrated Precipitation and Hydrology for Early Action (InPRHA) Project

(2024 - 2025)

Purpose: Revolutionize the physical understanding, observations, weather predictions, seasonal outlooks and climate projections of extreme events in Western North America, including atmospheric rivers, the North American summer monsoon and their impacts on floods, droughts, hydropower, ecosystems and the economy. (Overview – Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (ucsd.edu))

Focal point: F. Martin Ralph

Founded by:

Partners of the AR-Recon Project:

Flood Early Warning 4 Ethiopia: Urban Flood Warning for Africa as a step towards Early Warning for All

Linking with URBAN Prediction and Integrated Precipitation and Hydrology for Early Action (InPRHA) Projects

(2024 - 2025)

Purpose: The Project aims to demonstrate the implementation of a satellite-based nowcasting approach with local impact models for urban flood forecasting. the project responds to the global Anticipatory Action (AA) movement, in which the humanitarian aid sector moves from a responsive to a more pro-active approach for distributing humanitarian aid informed by early warning. The AA movement was followed by the UN EW4All initiative. The consortium has committed to the Water Action Agenda to support these global developments.

Focal point: Ruben Imhoff

Founding partners of the project:

Climate Risk and Early Warnings (CREWS) Central Africa

Linking with the ADVANCE Project (Aiding Decision-making in Vulnerable Africa with Nowcasting of ConvEction) and the Working Group on Nowcasting and Mesoscale Research (NMR)

(2023 - 2027)

Purpose: The project aims to enhance national early warning systems with a multi-hazard, impact-based and seamless approach, based on strong regional cooperation with 11 Central African countries (PRESAC and ECCAS member states of which 7 are LDCs and 1 SIDS: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equitorial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda and São Tomé and Príncipe). The project is proposed as a follow-up to the ECCAS Hydromet Forumheld from 4th to 6th May 2021.

Focal point: Tania Gascon

Founding Partners of the project:

Project Forecast of Antarctic Sea Ice Trend (FAST)

Linking with Polar Coupled Analysis and Prediction for Services (PCAPS) Project

(2025 - 2023)

Purpose: Project FAST aims to identify the proceeses leading to the melting of Antarctic sea ice due to warming through field observations and international collaborations. It seeks to develop a long-term forecast system and generate seasonal forecast of Antarctic sea ice, incoporating Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques.

Focal point: Emilia Kyung jin

Founding Partners of the project:

Climate Risk and Early Warnings (CREWS) East Africa

Linking with the ADVANCE Project (Aiding Decision-making in Vulnerable Africa with Nowcasting of ConvEction) and the Working Group on Nowcasting and Mesoscale Research (NMR)

(2023 - 2027)

Purpose: The four-year CREWS East Africa Project, aims to improve Early Warning Services (EWS) in East Africa and develop the coverage of impact-based early warning services across Lake Victoria and surrounding communities to support the East African Community (EAC) EWS Project Vision 2025.

Focal point: Jason Watkins

CREWS East Africa includes the following partners:

T-SCAN Turbulence and Supercool Clouds in Antarctica

Linking with the Polar Coupled Analysis and Prediction for Services (PCAPS) Project

(2025)

Overview: This project consists of a field study of cloud dynamics and its relation with turbulence, combining balloon-borne measurements of atmospheric parameters and super liquid water content profiles, with remote observations of ground-based instruments, in the region of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Focal point: Paola Rodriguez Imazio

Partners of the Project:

Resilience and Preparedness to Tropical Cyclones over Southern Africa (REPRESA)

Linking with the Working Group on Tropical Meteorology Research (TMR), Tropical Cyclone-Probabilistic Forecast Products (TC-PFP) Project and Progressing EW4All Oriented to Partnerships and Local Engagement (PEOPLE) Project

(2023 - 2026)

Overview: REPRESA focuses on the impacts of landfalling tropical cyclones (TCs) in Madagascar, Malawi, and Mozambique. Through knowledge sharing from different perspectives, REPRESA aims to leave a long-term legacy of improved in-country capability in multi-hazard impact-based forecasting, improved community-level early warning communication and improved resilience to tropical cyclones.

Focal point: Elizabeth Kendon

Partners of the project:

The Isfjorden Weather and Ocean Observing System (IWOOS)

Linking with the Polar Coupled Analysis and Prediction for Services (PCAPS) Project

(2025 - 2026)

Overview: The project aims to address critical gaps in atmospheric and oceanographic data in the Isfjorden region in Svalbard, particularly responding to the rapid Atlantification that impacts the area. This phenomenon has significantly reduced sea ice cover and changed marine ecology, which calls for enhanced monitoring and understanding of the changes.

Focal point: Marius O. Jonassen

Partners of the project:

Sea Ice Prediction Network (SIPN) South

Linking with the Polar Coupled Analysis and Prediction for Services (PCAPS) Project

(2017 - ongoing)

Overview: The project focuses on coordinating, comparing, and evaluating the skill of seasonal Antarctic sea ice predictions, with a focus on the summer season. The project gathers contributions from over 20 participants worldwide, using both dynamical (process-based) and statistical (data-driven) prediction methods.

Focal point: Francois Massonnet

Partners of the project:

Seasonal-to-decadal climate predictability in the Mediterranean: process understanding and services (MEDUSSE)

Linking with the Sub-seasonal Applications for Agriculture and Environment (SAGE) Project

(2024 - 2028)

Overview: This project aims at establishing a network including researchers with expertise in climate variability, predictability, prediction, model development, forecasting tools, applications and end-users of climate information, fostering co-development of products/indicators of interest for different sectors in the Mediterranean.

Focal point: Javier Garcia-Serrano

Partners of the project:

Coupled Modelling and Observations in the Marginal Ice Zone

Linking with the Polar Coupled Analysis and Prediction for Services (PCAPS) Project

(2024 - 2026)

Overview: The main goal of the project is to observe and better understand the complex interplay between atmosphere, waves, and sea-ice in the Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ) and to assess the predictive skill and uncertainties of coupled Arctic forecasting systems.

Focal point: Malte Müller

Founding Partners of the project:

The North American Upstream Feature-Resolving and Tropopause Uncertainty Reconnaissance Experiment (NURTURE)

Linking with the Polar Coupled Analysis and Prediction for Services (PCAPS) Project

(2024 - 2028)

Overview: NURTURE is a planned NASA-supported large-scale aircraft field campaign designed to advance knowledge of the processes that lead to extreme highimpact weather (HIW) events during the winter, such as severe cold air outbreaks, windstorms and hazardous seas, sea ice breakup, and extreme precipitation.

Focal point: Steven Cavallo

Partners of the project:

ANTSUBICE (Acoustic Navigation and communications Technologies for Submersible Units Below Ice and Cavity Exploration)

Linking with the Polar Coupled Analysis and Prediction for Services (PCAPS) Project

(2026 - 2032)

Overview: This multidisciplinary initiative aims to improve sea level rise projections by developing innovative autonomous underwater technologies to explore ice shelfocean interactions in Polar regions. These interactions significantly contribute to ice shelf stability and global sea level rise. The project focuses on developing and deploying autonomous submersible units with advanced sensors and communication systems to monitor the extreme sub-ice environments.

Focal point: Won Sang Lee

Partners of the project:

UNESCO UT City CoLab

Linking with Progressing EW4All Oriented to Partnerships and Local Engagement (PEOPLE), Urban Prediction and Integrated Precipitation and Hydrology for Early Action (InPRHA) Projects

Overview: The UT and UNESCO City CoLab is an innovative, community-centric, partnership platform to develop tools, data products, and a localized understanding of how weather extreme forecasts, and information can be used by the community and stakeholders with a particular focus on cities. The project was successfully developed and piloted for the City of Austin and has been endorsed and funded by the City of Austin, and the University of Texas at Austin.

Focal point: Dev Niyogi

Partners of the project:

Canada-Sweden Arctic Ocean Expedition 2025

Linking with the Polar Coupled Analysis and Prediction for Services (PCAPS) Project, Working Group on Predictability, Dynamics and Ensemble Forecasting (PDEF) and Joint Working Group on Forecast Verification Research (JWGFVR)

(2025)

Overview: The Swedish research icebreaker Oden will join the Canadian icebreaker CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent for operations in the central Arctic Ocean from August 9 – September 19, 2025, in collaboration with the Canadian Geological Survey. The expedition will take the form of a research school, combining the practical work of a research expedition with exercises and instruction and a curriculum of lectures covering essential parts of the Arctic Ocean climate system and environment.

Focal point: Åsa Lindgren

Partners of the project:

Improving Weather Forecasting Models for Services in Antarctic and Southern Ocean Regions

Linking with the Polar Coupled Analysis and Prediction for Services (PCAPS) Project and the Working Group on Societal and Economic Research Applications (SERA)

(2024 -2026)

Overview: This research aims to contribute to the improvement of weather, ocean, ice and climate forecasts that provide usable information that is relevant, accurate, reliable, actual and accessible (Qvistgaard, 2022) and meets users’ actionable knowledge, planning, decision-making, situational awareness, risk assessment and safety needs in Antarctic and Southern Ocean (ASO) regions.

Focal point: Victoria Heinrich

Partners of the project:

Analysis of the Causes of Heat Waves and Construction of an Intelligent Seasonal Prediction Model in the Southern Slopes of the Central and Western Himalayas (HI-Heat)

Linking with the Working Group on Societal and Economic Research Applications (SERA), Working Group on Predictability, Dynamics and Ensemble Forecasting (PDEF), Sub-seasonal Applications for Agriculture and Environment (SAGE) Project

(2025 - 2027)

Overview: This project aims to develop a high-resolution meteorological dataset to analyze heatwave patterns, drivers, and risks in South Asia, particularly the central-western Himalayas. Using advanced machine learning, statistical downscaling, and climate models, it will identify spatiotemporal characteristics, map population exposure, and define disaster risk zones. The research seeks to improve heatwave forecasting, enhance understanding of multi-factor interactions, and support adaptation strategies. Additionally, it fosters multinational collaboration among researchers from China, Pakistan, and Nepal, strengthening regional capacity through training and advanced research tools for disaster risk mitigation, climate resilience, and sustainable development.

Focal point: Xiaojing Jia, Rongkun Liu

Partners of the project:

Formation Mechanism and Sub-seasonal Dynamic Prediction of Extreme Rainfall in the Southern Slopes of the Himalayan Region (HI-Rain)

(2025 - 2027)

Overview: This project aims to improve extreme rainfall prediction on the southern slopes of the Himalayas, particularly in Nepal and Bhutan, where increasing rainfall events trigger floods and landslides, endangering lives and infrastructure. Using in situ observations, multi-source precipitation data, and reanalysis data, it will analyze spatiotemporal patterns and underlying mechanisms. By optimizing topographic parameters within the IAP-CAS sub-seasonal prediction system, the project seeks to enhance forecasting accuracy. Its outcomes will strengthen disaster preparedness, support climate resilience, and foster long-term collaboration among regional institutions, providing timely warnings and response strategies for climate-related hazards in vulnerable mountain communities.

Focal points: Qing Bao, Jun Jian, Rongkun Liu

Partners of the project:

SOS - Skillfull Oceanographic Searchers

Linking with the Polar Coupled Analysis and Prediction for Services (PCAPS) Project, Working Group on Societal and Economic Research Applications (SERA) and Working Group on Predictability, Dynamics and Ensemble Forecasting (PDEF)

(2026 - 2029)

Overview: The project will leverage collaboration with emergency responders and public administration, namey the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centres responsible for Search and rescue missions, and The Norwegian Coastal Administration responsible for environmental risk and oil spill mitigation. The research and demonstration cases require exchange of search result data, and the capacity to test new forecast products that are the result of co-development work in the project.

Focal point: Johannes Röhrs

Partners of the project:

Preparing for tomorrow’s floods: making our forecasts fit for the future

Linking with the Working Group on Predictability, Dynamics and Ensemble Forecasting (PDEF), Progressing EW4All Oriented to Partnerships and Local Engagement (PEOPLE) Project, Integrated Precipitation and Hydrology for Early Action (InPRHA) Project and the Working Group on Data Assimilation and Observing Systems (DAOS)

(2026 - 2029)

Overview: This research aims to develop future capability for national-scale ensemble flood forecasting system that integrates multiple models, data sources, and advanced hydrological data assimilation (DA) techniques. Additonally, the research will develop tailored flood warnings that reflect people’s trigger thresholds and uncertainty tolerance, improving response and reduce warning fatigue.

Focal point: Celine Cattoen-Gilbert

Partners of the project:

Previous Endorsed Projects

TEAMx (Multi-scale transport and exchange processes in the atmosphere over mountains – programme and experiment)

(2018 - 2024)

Purpose: Improve our understanding of exchange processes in the atmosphere over mountains and at evaluating how well these are parameterized in NWP and climate models.
(http://www.teamx-programme.org/)

Focal Point: Mathias Rotach

Founding partners of the TeamX project:

MedCyclones (European network for Mediterranean cyclones in weather and climate)

Linking with HiWeather, URBAN Prediction and Integrated Precipitation and Hydrology for Early Action (InPRHA) Projects

(2020 - 2024)

Purpose: This Action will coordinate the activities of researchers in meteorology and climatology and scientists from weather/climate services with the main aims to provide a deeper understanding of Mediterranean cyclones and to improve significantly the European capacity to predict their environmental and climate impacts. In this context, the network will identify, and involve in the network, relevant stakeholders with different backgrounds (e.g. civil protection, re-insurance companies) and co-develop cyclone prediction products tailored to their needs.
(https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA19109/#tabs|Name:overview)

Focal point: Emmanouil Flaounas

Countries involved in the MedCyclones project: Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland,Turkey, United Kingdom

Previous Partner Project

The Waves to Weather Project (W2W)

(2015-2023)

Purpose: Address the great challenge of identifying the limits of weather predictability in different situations and producing the best forecasts that are physically possible.
(https://www.wavestoweather.de/)

The W2W consortium consists of the following partners: