[ET-OCPS] Expert Team on Operational Climate Prediction System (17-19 Sept. 2024)
The third session of the WMO Commission for Observation, Infrastructure and Information Systems (INFCOM-3) was held in Geneva, Switzerland from 15 to 19 April 2024. At this session, INFCOM decided to establish the Standing Committee on the WMO Integrated Processing and Prediction System (SC-WIPPS) to address high priority tasks, including those aimed at supporting the Early Warnings for All initiative. These tasks will result in enhancing the predictability in sub-seasonal to decadal climate prediction and better meeting user requirements on climate prediction and climate reanalysis. These have been outlined in a workplan of SC-WIPPS for 2024-2025 and will be undertaken by its subsidiary body, ET-OCPS.
ET-OCPS is responsible for scientific and technical coordination pertinent to climate prediction with the aim of further evolving the WMO Integrated Processing and Prediction System (WIPPS), including functions and products of relevant WIPPS Designated Centres. ET-OCPS will deliberate on and refine the workplan, breaking it down into action plans that emphasize the provision of newly adopted recommended climate products, and a demonstration plan for the WIPPS Rolling Review of User Requirements in climatology category, with associated timelines. ET-OCPS will also consider anticipated challenges, their mitigation measures, and the capabilities of each relevant WIPPS Designated Centre while conducting action plans. The discussions will also encompass two newly adopted WIPPS activities during INFCOM-3: global climate reanalysis and the coordination of assessment of multiple climate reanalysis, and designated centres.
- The provisional meeting agenda can be found on the following link. Click here for the draft agenda.
- The local information can be found on the following link. Click here for local information.
- The templates of documents can be downloaded from here. ET-OCPS-3-d0X-X presentation title - presenter - template.pptx, ET-OCPS-3-d0X-X document title - presenter - template.docx
- List of WIPPS publications:
The final report is available here, Meeting Report ET-OCPS - 17-19 SEPT 2024 - Bologna - final.pdf
Day 1: Tuesday, 17 September 2024
| Time (CEST) | Agenda items | Presenters |
| 08:30-09:00 | Meeting registration | |
| 09:00-09:30 | 1. OPENING - Secretariat 1.1 Welcome remarks
1.2 Roundtable introductions 2. ORGANIZATION OF THE MEETING - Arun KUMAR 2.2 Working arrangements |
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| 09:30-11:00 | 3. REPORTS ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE RELEVANT CONSTITUENT BODIES – Arun KUMAR 3.1 Overall outcomes of SERCOM-3 (Bali, 4-9 March 2024), INFCOM-3 (Geneva, 15-19 April 2024) and EC-78 (Geneva, 10-14 June 2024) 3.2 Demonstration of the WMO Integrated Processing and Prediction System Rolling Review of Requirements 4. STATUS AND PROGRESS REPORTS - Arun KUMAR 4.1 Review of action items from the meeting of ET-OCPS-2 (Lisbon, Portugal, 19-23 September 2022) |
Secretariat
Secretariat
All members |
| 11:00-11:30 | Health break | |
| 11:30-13:00 | Status and progress reports by GPCs (15) : Beijing, CMCC, CPTEC, ECMWF, Exeter, Melbourne, Montreal, Moscow, Offenbach, Pune, Pretoria, Seoul, Tokyo, Toulouse, Washington | Leon HERMANSON & Jeff KNIGHT Caio COELHO
Laura FERRANTI |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00-14:30 | 4.4 Status of LC-SPMME | Juyoun LIM |
| 14:00-15:30 | 5. ENHANCEMENT OF SUB-SEASONAL PREDICTION ACTIVITIES – Caio COELHO 5.1 Sub-seasonal prediction verification and planned contents (Note: Please refer slides 10–14 in the presentation file for agenda item 4.3) |
Laura FERRANTI
All members |
| 15:30-16:00 | Health break | |
| 16:00-17:00 | All members |
Day 2: Wednesday, 18 September 2024
| Time (CEST) | Agenda items | Presenters |
| 09:00-09:30 | 5.3 Enhancing the efficiency of GSCU production | Arun KUMAR |
| 09:30-10:30 | 6. OPERATIONALIZATION OF NEWLY DESIGNED WIPPS CENTRES - Caio COELHO 6.1 Status and plans of four GPCs-SSP Beijing, CPTEC (Brazil), Moscow and Tokyo | Peiqun ZHANG, Caio COELHO, Mikhail TOLSTYKH, Yuhei TAKAYA |
| 10:30-11:00 | 6.2 Status and plans of two centres conducting global climate reanalysis (GCRs) ECMWF and NASA (USA) | Carlo BUONTEMPO Michael BOSILOVICH |
| 11:00-11:30 | Health break | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Carlo BUONTEMPO | |
| 12:00-13:00 | 7. COMPLIANCE REVIEW - Arun KUMAR 7.2 Development of the draft of the consolidated review report of GPCs-SP (Note: It will be presented at the meeting.) |
Arun KUMAR Arun KUMAR |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00-14:30 | 7.3 Plan and status of other centres compliance review: LC-SPMME, GPCs-ADCP and LC-ADCP | Arun KUMAR |
| 14:30-15:00 | 8. CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES WITH SERCOM/SC-CLI - Caio COELHO8.1 Plan for demonstrating the WIPPS Rolling Review of Requirements (RRR) with SC-CLI |
Arun KUMAR and Kumar KOLLI |
| 15:00-17:00 | 10.5 Visit ECMWF Data Centre | |
| 19:30 - | Group dinner (Self-funded) |
Day 3: Thursday, 19 September 2024