The WWRP Mission

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) promotes international and interdisciplinary research to provide more accurate and reliable forecasts from minutes to seasons, expanding the frontiers of weather science to enhance society's resilience to high-impact weather and the value of weather information to users. WWRP aims to Seamless Prediction by increasing convergence between weather, climate and environmental approaches. WWRP strengthens academic-operational partnerships and interdisciplinary collaboration, and enhances the role of early career scientists. 

WWRP Objectives 

• Advance research of the Earth system on times scales from minutes to months and, through science-for-services value cycle approach, enable this research to provide local and regional actionable weather information that is needed for communities to reduce vulnerability to hazards, and advance applications such as renewable energy, agriculture, and health 

• Enhance the warning process to account for compounding and cascading risk, and the evolving nature of weather impacts in a changing climate 

• Quantify and reduce uncertainty in predictions on time scales from minutes to months, enhance understanding of decision-making under uncertainty, and develop effective communication strategies on uncertainty for informed decision-making.  

To learn more, please consult the WWRP Implementation Plan (2024 - 2027).