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)
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Project |
Countries involved |
Duration |
Purpose |
Region |
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WISER – EWSA (Weather and Climate Information Service - Early Warnings for Southern Africa)
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Mozambique, Zambia, South Africa, United Kingdom |
2023-2025 |
To reduce disaster risk through the co-production of new weather information services and early warnings. |
Region I and VI |
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South Africa (Johannesburg), United Kingdom (London), Hong Kong, Singapore. |
2021- 2025 |
To focus on nowcasting, aviation weather, including the undertainty/confidence estimation over the Terminal Control Area for the next 0-6 hr. |
Region I, VI and II |
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Tropical Cyclone - Probabilistic Forecast Products (TC-PFP) |
Ongoing |
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 |
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Polar Coupled Analysis and Prediction for Services (PCAPS) |
In Arctic and Antarctica |
2024 -2027 |
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.
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Region II, IV, VI |
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Multiple countries involved. |
2021 - ongoing |
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 |
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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 |
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TeamX (Multi-scale transport and exchange processes in the atmosphere over mountains – programme and experiment) |
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 |