Overview
Endorsed and Partner Projects or Proposals
The Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) of the World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) provides endorsement for a) projects, b) programmes and c) initiatives that plan to contribute to the aims of the WWRP, as outlined in the WWRP Implementation Plan. Projects seeking endorsement through WWRP may be either a) funded or b) in the process of seeking funding through a proposal to a funding agency. Projects that are not seeking specific funding through a proposal, but rather are convening the research community through a scientific event (meeting or workshop), may also receive an endorsement for that meeting.
The WWRP Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) also offers inclusion of partner projects that plan to contribute to the aims of the WWRP, as outlined in the WWRP Implementation Plan. Partner projects are closer, and potentially longer, relationships with WWRP than are endorsed projects
The Terms of Reference for Endorsed and Partner projects can be found here.
All applications for endorsement are accumulated until the 20th of each month, when they will be circulated to the relevant Chairs of Projects/Working Groups and subsequently to the WWRP Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) for their consideration. The outcome will be available early in the following month.
The list of projects approved for endorsement or partnership by the World Weather Research Programme can be found below:
| Project name | Links to | Funded by | PI | Start Date | End date | |
| 1 | NAWDIC | InPRHA, PDEF | Multiple countries who participate | Julian Quinting | 2023 | 2026 |
| 2 | AnDeL | ADVANCE | As a starter, the team has received a One-Year Oracle for Research Cloud Grant to aid the project's computational activities | Jeffrey Nii Armah Aryee | Aug-23 | Jul-26 |
| 3 | AR-RECON | InPRHA | California Department of Water Resources' Atmospheric Rivers Program and by the US Army Corps of Engineers Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations program. Support is also provided by NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations. | F. Martin Ralph | 2024 | |
| 4 | Flood EW for Ethiopia | Urban, InPRHA , PEOPLE | The Netherlands Enterprise Agency and 42% through in-kind contributions of the consortium partners | Ruben Imhoff | Jan-24 | Dec-25 |
| 5 | CREWS Central/west Africa | ADVANCE, NMR | CREWS | Tania Gascon | Jan-23 | Jan-27 |
| 6 | CREWS East Africa | ADVANCE NMR | CREWS | Jason Thomas Watkins | 31-Jan-23 | 31-Jan-27 |
| 7 | FAST | PCAPS | Ministry of Ocean and Fisheries, Republic of Korea | Emilia Kyung jin | Jan-25 | Dec-30 |
| 8 | T-SCAN | PCAPS | SMN through Argentinian Ministry of Defense | Paola Rodriguez Imazio | 15-Jan-25 | 15-Feb-26 |
| 9 | REPRESA | PEOPLE, TC-PFP, TMR | REPRESA is funded by the International Development and Research Centre (IDRC) and the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) under the CLARE initiative. | Elizabeth Kendon | Jun-23 | Dec-26 |
| 10 | The Isfjorden Weather and Ocean Observing System | PCAPS | MetNorway | Marius O. Jonassen | Jan-25 | Dec-26 |
| 11 | Seasonal-to-decadal climate predictability in the Mediterranean: process understanding and services (MEDUSSE) | SAGE | This project is a 4-year COST Action funded by european funding, CA23108. | Javier Garcia-Serrano, Silvia Terzago | Oct-24 | Oct-28 |
| 12 | The Sea Ice Prediction Network South (SIPN South) | PCAPS | NOAA (including OAR, GFDL, NESDIS, NCEI), CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences), Universities and research centers in Belgium, Argentina, Spain, the U.S., UK, Germany, China, Australia, Canada, Italy, and Japan | François Massonnet | Jan-17 | Ongoing |
| 13 | The North American Upstream Feature-Resolving and Tropopause Uncertainty Reconnaissance Experiment (NURTURE) | PCAPS, PDEF, DAOS | NOAA (including OAR, GFDL, NESDIS, NCEI) | Steven Cavallo | Jan-24 | Jan-28 |
| 14 | Coupled Modelling and Observations in the Marginal Ice Zone | PCAPS, PDEF | The Norwegian Research Council, | Malte Müller | Jan-24 | Dec-26 |
| 15 | ANTSUBICE(Acoustic Navigation and communications Technologies for Submersible Units Below Ice and Cavity Exploration) | PCAPS | Awaiting funding, possibly from Korean Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries | Won Sang Lee | Apr-26 | Dec-32 |
| 16 | UNESCO UT City CoLab | Urban, InPRHA, PEOPLE, PDEF | The City of Austin for 2025 budget. | Dev Niyogi | Jan-25 | Dec-28 |
| 17 | Improving Weather Forecasting Models for Services in Antarctic and Southern Ocean Regions | PCAPS, SERA | No funding | Victoria Heinrich | Feb-24 | Dec-26 |
| 18 | Canada-Sweden Arctic Ocean Expedition 2025 | PCAPS, PDEF, FVR, DAOS | The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, which coordinates Sweden’s participation and leases the icebreaker Oden from the Swedish Maritime Administration. The Geological Survey of Canada, Land and Mineral Sector, which leads the Canadian contribution using the icebreaker CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent. | Åsa Lindgren | Aug-25 | Sep-25 |
| 19 | Analysis of the Causes of Heat Waves and Construction of an Intelligent Seasonal Prediction Model in the Southern Slopes of the Central and Western Himalayas | SAGE, PDEF, SERA | The project is funded by the National Science Foundation of China | Xiaojing JIA; Rongkun LIU | Jan-25 | Dec-27 |
| 20 | Formation Mechanism and Sub-seasonal Dynamic Prediction of Extreme Rainfall in the Southern Slopes of the Himalayan Region | SAGE, PDEF, FVR, SERA | The project is funded by the National Science Foundation of China | Qing BAO; Rongkun LIU | Jan-25 | Dec-27 |
| 21 | PREVENIR: Forecast and Warning of Flash Flood Events | InPRHA, NMR, PDEF, DAOS | Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) | MIYOSHI, Takemasa | Jun-22 | Jun-27 |
| 22 | Improving Delivery of Weather Prediction Center Precipitation Products | InPRHA, SERA | NOAA Weather Program Office - NOAA-OAR-WPO-2023-2007710 | Dr. Kathryn Semmens | Feb-23 | Jan-27 |
| 23 | Understanding and Prediction of Compound Ocean-Atmosphere Storms in the Tropics (SEA-COAST) | NMR; PDEF and TMR (added InPHRA and URBAN) | Weather and Climate Science for Service Partnership (WCSSP) –Southeast Asia programme | Xiangbo Feng | May-25 | Mar-28 |
| PROPOSAL | The Oxford Martin Programme on Child Resilience in Climate Change | PEOPLE; SAGE, SERA | Co-funded through Oxford Martin School resources and international development partnerships | Prof Lucie Cluver | ||
| 24 | SnøTroll: A Norwegian and British Contribution to Antarctica InSync | PCAPS | Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) – Lead institution and publisher of the programme materials, COMNAP (Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs) – Provides infrastructure and logistics support through its member national Antarctic programs European Union project POLARIN – Contributes to infrastructure and logistics European Space Agency (ESA) | Ryan R. Neely III | Apr-26 | Apr-30 |
| 25 | PARTNER NETWORK: Hans-Ertel Centre for Weather Research | PCAPS, SAGE, NMR, PDEF, JWGFVR, SERA | Federal Ministry of Transport through the Deutscher Wetterdienst (German Meteorological Service) | Prof. Dr. Peter Braesicke | Jul-23 | Jun-27 |
| 26 | Polar Night Experiment (PONEX) Aircraft Campaign | PCAPS, NMR; PDEF, JWGFVR | National Science Foundation (NSF) Department of Energy (DOE) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | Zen Mariani & Alexei Korolev | Jan-26 | Jan-26 |
| 27 | POWER-Kenya (Potential of sub-sesaonal Operational Weather and climate information for building Energy Resilience in Kenya) | SAGE, PDEF, SERA, TMR | African Development Bank (AfDB) | Linda Hirons | Feb-25 | Jan-27 |
| 28 | Experiment on Typhoon Intensity Change in the Coastal Area (EXOTICCA) | Urban-PREDICT, PDEF,DAOS, TMR | CMA, HKO, Asia-Pacific Typhoon Collaborative Research Center (AP-TCRC) | Robert Rogers | Jan-24 | Dec-29 |
| 29 | Building Resilience through multilevel efforts | SAGE, SERA | BRICS countries: From China MOST (Ministry of Science and Technology); From Brazil is CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico), and From South Africa is NRF (National Research Foundation). | Ziqiang Han | Sep-24 | Aug-27 |
| 30 | Sea-Air Fluxes and Atmospheric River Initiation (SAFARI) | NMR, PDEF | Office of Naval Research Departmental Research Initiative | Daniel Eleuterio | Jan-25 | Dec-30 |
| 31 | The Global Drifter Program | PCAPS, JWGFVR, DAOS, TMR | NOAA | Luca Centurioni | Jan-80 | Jun-30 |
| 32 | Cloud and Precipitation Observations, Modeling, And Prediction in Svalbard (CLOUDMAPS) | PCAPS and JWGFVR | Svalbard Strategic Grant The Research Council of Norway. | Teresa Remes | Oct-25 | Sep-27 |
| 33 | Seamless Prediction and Services for Sustainable Natural and Built Environment (SEPRESS) Program | SERA | USD 2.5 million from Otto Poon Center for Climate Resilience and Sustainability at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, National Natural Science Foundation of China – Sustainable Development International Cooperation Program, the Alliance of International Science Organizations, Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China – United Nations Environment Programme | Dr. Mengqian Lu | 2025 | 2032 |
| 34 | COPE - Capacities of Organizations to Prepare for Extreme events | SAGE, SERA | Sao Paulo Research Foundation (Fapesp) | Victor Marchezini | Sep-23 | Aug-28 |
| 35 | M3E - Mediterranean Extreme Events Experiment | PEOPLE, DAOS, JWGFVR | In kind contributions from the partners (in hand): OGS - Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale; CMCC - Centro euro-mediterraneo sui cambiamenti climatici: Agenzia Italia Meteo: E-SURFMAR/MF: ECMWF ; CNR ISMAR – Consiglio Nazionale delle RicercheIstituto di Scienze Marine: Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope: Alma MaterStudiorum Università di Bologna – Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia: UC San Diego - SCRIPPS Institution of Oceanography | Pierre-Marie Poulain | Oct-25 | Dec-28 |
| 36 | Strengthening Early Warning in Africa (SEWA) | SAGE, ADVANCE, TMR, NMR | SEWA is funded by the European Commission under the Africa-EU Space Partnership Programme. The total budget of SEWA is 20 Mio EUR of which 9.4 MioEUR is assigned to ECMWF with an additional 1.2 Mio EUR extra funding for activities related to 'digital transformation'. | Karolin Eichler | 01-Jan-25 | 31-May-29 |
| 37 | The joint Copernicus Expansion Missions CIMR, CRISTAL, ROSE-L Sea Ice Experiment (CEMSIE) | PCAPS, DAOS | ESA SUPFIX POLAR | John Yackel | Jan-26 | Dec-27 |
| Previous projects | ||||||
| TeamX | Urban and NMR | Mathias Rotach and Manuela Lehner | 2018 | 2024 | ||
| MedCyclones | Urban, InPRHA | Emmanouil Flaounas | 2020 | 2024 | ||
| EWSA | ADVANCE, PEOPLE, NMR | Doug Parker | Mar-23 | Jun-25 |