[SC-WIPPS] Meeting of Standing Committee on WMO Integrated Processing and Prediction System (Bonn Germany, 13-16 July 2026)

Pursuant to Resolution 3 (INFCOM-3), the Standing Committee on WIPPS (SC-WIPPS) was re-established and has been actively engaged in delivering its expected outcomes in alignment with the workplan of the Commission for Observation, Infrastructure and Information Systems (INFCOM) as defined under Resolution 1 (INFCOM-3). In addition, SC-WIPPS has initiated work to address the new requests arising from the outcomes of the seventy-ninth session of the Executive Council (EC-79) (2025) and the Extraordinary Session of the World Meteorological Congress (Cg-Ext (2025)). 

In preparation for the fourth session of INFCOM, SC-WIPPS organizes a hybrid meeting aiming at consolidating and reviewing all deliverables achieved during this intersessional period, developing a workplan for the next intersessional period, and to facilitating discussions on the new WIPPS strategy. 

MEETNING INFORMATION

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Joint the meeting online: The link has been sent to the participants.

Session 1. Opening

1.1 Welcoming remarks 

Vincent-Henri Peuch, Head of Site ECMWF Bonn
SC-WIPPS – David Richardson
Secretariat – Peiliang Shi

1.2 Roundtable introductions

Session 2. Organization of the meeting

2.1 Adoption of the agenda

2.2 Working arrangements

Session 3. Reports on the activities during the current intersessional period (Since the last online meeting (July 2025))

3.1 Report on outcomes of Cg-Ext (2025) and EC-80 (22-26 June 2026, Geneva, Switzerland) – Secretariat

3.2 Report on outcomes of INFCOM MGs (Nov 2025, Hybrid, Switzerland; March 2026, Geneva, Switzerland) – David Richardson

3.3 Relevant resolutions/decisions/recommendations of constituent bodies - Secretariat

3.4 Key Performance Indices for Strategic Objective 2.3 – Secretariat

3.5 Review of action items from the previous meetings – David Richardson

Session 4. Reports by SC-WIPPS and Expert/Task teams – Deliverables and workplan

4.1 Preparation for INFCOM-4 (23-27 November 2027) – Secretariat

Proposed amendments to the Manual on WIPPS and Guide to WIPPS

4.2 Standing Committee on WIPPS – David Richardson, Hamza Kabelwa and Yuhei Takaya

4.3 Expert Team on WIPPS Design and Evolution and WIPPS Pilot Projects – Wai Kin Wong and Francois Engelbrecht

4.4 Expert Team on Operational Weather Forecasting System (ET-OWFS), including Task Team on Reviewing NWP Standardized Verification (TT-NWPSV) and Task Team on Development of Tropical Low/Cyclone Standardized Verification (TT-TCSV) - Stephanie Landman and Stephen Mosley

4.5 Expert Team on Operational Climate Prediction System (ET-OCPS) – Arun Kumar and Caio Coelho

4.6 Expert Team on Operational Hydrological Prediction System (ET-OHPS) – Narendra Tuteja and Andy Wood

4.7 Expert Team on Atmospheric Composition Prediction System (ET-ACPS) – Laurence Rouil and Zeinab Salah Mahmoud

4.8 Expert Team on Observation Data Quality Monitoring System (ET-ODQMS) – Secretariat

4.9 Expert Team on Emergency Response Activities (ET-ERA) – Gerhard Wotawa, Alain Malo and Soledad Osores

4.10 Task Team on NWP Products Metadata (TT-NWPMD) – Sebastien Villaume

4.11 Task Team on G3W modelling (TT-G3W-modelling) – Lesley E. Ott and Secretariat

4.12 ETOOFS – Secretariat

4.13 Joint work of WIPPS and AG-GCW – Arun Kumar and Secretariat

4.14 Expected requests from SERCOM-4 (19-23 October 2026) – Secretariat

4.15 Review of Compliance review process – Secretariat

4.16. Capacity Development, including NWP competencies – Hamza Kabelwa and Amin Erfani

Session 5. WIPPS strategy

5.1 Introduction of the new WIPPS Strategy – David Richardson, Hamza Kabelwa, Yuhei Takya, Arun Kumar and Wai Kin Wong

5.2 Review of the concept of WIPPS Pilot Projects – Wai Kin Wong

5.3 Development of AI Technical Guidance – David Richardson and Secretariat

5.4 Group discussion on WIPPS Strategy

Open-source software approach and shared computational resources - Stephen Mosley, Peiliang Shi and Francois Engelbrecht
Contribution from non-traditional source (NTS) - David Richardson and Arun Kumar
Impact of AI on WIPPS cascading process - Stephanie Landman and Yuhei Takaya

Session 6. Workplan for the next intersession period

6.1 Expected outcomes for INFCOM-5 (2028)

6.2 Review and update of the workplan

6.3 Subsidiary bodies of SC-WIPPS