Regional Activities
To support WMO member states' activities and create an international network of expertise, WWRP is involved in several regional research projects:
Regional Activities (2024 -2027)
| Project | Countries involved | Duration | Purpose | Region |
| WISER – EWSA (Weather and Climate Information Service - Early Warnings for Southern Africa) | Mozambique, Zambia, South Africa, United Kingdom | 2023-2025 | 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. | Region I and VI |
| Aviation RDP | South Africa (Johannesburg), United Kingdom (London), Hong Kong, Singapore. | 2021- 2025 | To focus on nowcasting, aviation weather, including the uncertainty/confidence estimation over the Terminal Control Area for the next 0-6 hr. | Region I, VI and II |
| Tropical Cyclone - Probabilistic Forecast Products (TC-PFP) | All RSMCs for TCs included. | 2021- 2025
| Provide a single and centralized source for the media and general public to access official warnings and information issued by National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) efficiently. | Region II, III, IV, V, VI |
| Polar Coupled Analysis and Prediction for Services (PCAPS) | In Arctic and Antarctica | 2024-2028 | Improved observation and modelling to provide a better understanding of the Arctic amplification mechanisms through an improved understanding of physical processes in the polar regions.
| Region II, IV, VI |
| Integrated Prediction of Precipitation and Hydrology for Early Actions (InPRHA) | 2024 -2028 | Focus on the shorter time scales (minutes to days), and the advancement of warning strategies associated with multi-hazards and their interdependencies that affect the water cycle. It seeks to enhance socio-hydrometeorology through dynamic interactions between weather, water, people and citizen science. | ||
Progressing EW4All Oriented to Partnerships and Local Engagement (PEOPLE)
| 2024 -2028 | Building on insights from previous projects, PEOPLE will recognize the elements of an effectively expanded Early Warning System (EWS) and analyze the structural and social processes needed to support this. It will acknowledge cultural and knowledge systems as well as governance dimensions, focusing on science for and with policy and practice. | Region I | |
| Urban-PREDICT Project | 2025 -2029 | Building on the successes of the High Impact Weather project, the project aims at developing applications and evaluating sub-kilometre modelling techniques for vulnerable communities and advancing the concept of digital cities as a companion to initiatives like Digital Earth and Digital Twins. | ||
Sub-seasonal to seasonal Applications for Agriculture and Environment (SAGE)
| 2024 -2028 | Building on the successes of the Sub-seasonal to seasonal project, the project aims to improve operational products, sub-seasonal prediction skills and understanding sources of predictability to communicate appropriate actions under uncertaintyand determine where forecasts will or will not exhibit skill for extreme weather. |
Previous Activities
Multiple countries involved. | 2021 - 2024 | To evaluate nowcasting systems available in the different WMO Regional Associations, with a particular focus on developing countries, and types of warnings generated on severe weather. | Region III, I, II, IV, V, VI | |
France | 2020 - 2024 | Advance research on the theme of the “future Meteorological Forecasting systems at 100m (or finer) resolution for urban areas”. Such systems would prefigure the numerical weather prediction at the horizon of 2030. | Region VI | |
Austria | 2018-2024 | Improve our understanding of exchange processes in the atmosphere over mountains and at evaluating how well these are parameterized in NWP and climate models. | Region VI | |
MedCyclones (European network for Mediterranean cyclones in weather and climate) | Multiple countries involved. | 2020 - 2024 | Coordinate the activities of researchers in meteorology and climatology and scientists from weather/climate services to provide a deeper understanding of Mediterranean cyclones and improve the European capacity to predict their environmental and climate impacts. | Region VI |