World Meteorological Organization

High Impact Weather Project
(HIWeather)

Mission

High Impact Weather Implementation Plan

Implementation Plan

News

2018

• HIWeather Workshop Increasing the value of weather-related warnings 
  Beijing, China, 20-22 November 2018, hosted by the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences

Call for applications - Applications for workshop participation are accepted until 17 September 2018

Newsletter

• September 2018
• May 2018
• January 2018
• October 2017
• June 2017
• March 2017
• December 2016
• September 2016
• February 2016
• October 2015
  
• July 2015

Research Themes

• Predictability and Processes
• Multi-Scale Forecasting of Weather-Related Hazards
• Impacts, Vulnerability and Risk
• Communication
• User-Oriented Evaluation
  
  

International Coordination Office

The International Coordination Office is hosted
at the Chinese Academy of Meteorological
Science of the China Meteorological Administration

Steering Group Members

Co-chair:  Brian Golding, Met Office, UK
e-mail: brian.golding@metoffice.gov.uk

Co-chair: David Johnston, University of New Zealand
e-mail: david.johnston@gns.cri.nz

Beth Ebert, BoM, Australia, lead of the Evaluation Theme
e-mail: e.ebert@bom.gov.au

Brian Mills, Environment Canada, lead of the Vulnerability and Risk Theme
e-mail: bmills@uwaterloo.ca

Shannon Panchuk, BoM, Australia
email: s.panchuk@bom.gov.au

Sally Potter, GNS Science, New Zealand
email: s.potter@gns.cri.nz

Michael Riemer
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Germany
email: mriemer@uni-mainz.de

Jenny Sun, USA, lead of the Multiscale Forecasting Theme
e-mail: sunj@ucar.edu

2017

• HIWeather contribution to the WMO Bulletin
  Vol. 66 (2)
  https://public.wmo.int/en/resources/bulletin/
  hiweather-10-year-research-project
  
  
• Conference on Predictability and Multi-Scale Prediction of High Impact Weather
   (Landshut, Bavaria, Germany, 9 - 12 October)
  Flyer
  
  
• IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA Assembly
  Cape Town, South Africa, 27 August - 1 September

• Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference
  22-23 May 2017, Cancun, Mexico
  
  
• HIWeather postcard
  
  

2016

High Impact Weather (HIWeather) Project Kick off meeting
(EXETER, UK, 27-29 April)

• Final report

• Presentations
  HIWeather - Growing resilience through better warnings
  Brian Golding
  Relevance of HIWeather to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
  Virginia Murray

• Presentations - Plenary on HIWeather Impacts, Communication and Evaluation plenary (27 April)
  - Agenda
  - Human Impacts, Vulnerability and Risk Task Team (HIVR-TT)
    Brian Mills
  - Impact and risk-based approaches in forecasting: challenges and discussion topics
    Joanne Robbins
  - Dynamic Vulnerability Assessment
    Isabelle Ruin
  - The Weather Information Value Chain
    Jeffrey K. Lazo
  - CEDIM’s Forensic Disaster Analysis in near real-time
    Michael Kunz
  - Challenge to Develop and Demonstrate New User-Oriented Forecast Verification Metrics
    Barbara Brown, Beth Ebert, Thomas Haiden, Martin Göber, Marion Mittermaier and Pertti Nurmi

2015

• HIWeather: bringing an international perspective to weather readiness
  Brian Golding & Sarah Jones
  
  

• International Workshop on High Impact Weather Research
  (Ningbo, China, 20-23 January 2015)

2014

• Presentation HIWeather during EC-66
  (June 2014)
  
  
• High Impact Weather (HIWeather) Project Workshop
  (Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, 2-4 June)
  
  2013
  
• THORPEX High Impact Weather Workshop
  (Karslruhe, Germany, 18-19 March)
  Presentations