World Meteorological Organization

WMO regional workshop series and implementation activities

The WMO series of regional workshops on climate monitoring including the implementation of climate watch systems constitute a mechanism for assisting WMO Members to identify the regions needs for setting up sound Climate Watch Systems in the regions based on regional and national capabilities and infrastructures. The objectives of the workshop are:

• To address the need for climate watches  in the region,
  
• To review the status of climate monitoring and long range forecasting capabilities at regional and national level,
  
• To review and discuss climate watch showcases from the region and from abroad,
  
• To work on tailoring the WMO guidelines on climate watches to the region needs,
  
• To recommend best practices for the region in issuing climate watches,
  
• To recommend best strategies towards users of climate watches,
  
• To develop an action plan to implement climate watches at national and regional level,
  
• To recommend a follow-up mechanism on the implementation of a Climate Watch System in the regions. 

Report	Regional Workshop on Climate Monitoring including the implementation of Climate Watch Systems for Arab Countries in West Asia 27-29 May 2013, Amman, Jordan	RA II Decision
	WMO workshop on Climate Monitoring including the implementation of Climate Watch Systems in RAI with focus on Eastern and Southern Africa 15-18 April 2013, Pretoria, South Africa	RA I Decision
Report	Side event on the implementation of a Climate Watch System in RA-VI in the context of GFCS at the European Conference of Applied Climatology in Lodz, Poland, 10 - 14 September 2012	RA VI Decision
	WMO RA VI Workshop Offenbach, Germany, 25 - 28 October 2010 Implementation Plan	RA VI Decision
	WMO RA II Workshop Beijing, China, 10 - 13 November 2009 Implementation Plan	RA II Decision
Proceedings:     Not available	WMO RA III Workshop Guayaquil, Ecuador, 8 - 11 December 2008 Implementation Plan	RA III Decision WMO-No. 1067 15th session of RA III, Bogota, 22-29 September 2010 (page 50)

Examples of Climate Watches

• An inter-operable knowledge data base for regional weather and climate events
• Initial Climate Watch for Iberian Peninsula and Western Europe, 5 February 2014
• First update of Climate Watch for Iberian Peninsula and Western Europe, 19 February 2014
• Template for Climate Watches