Endorsed and Partner Projects
Partner Project
The Waves to Weather Project (W2W)
(2015-2023)
Purpose: Address the great challenge of identifying the limits of weather predictability in different situations and producing the best forecasts that are physically possible.
(https://www.wavestoweather.de/)
The W2W consortium consists of the following partners:
Endorsed projects
North Atlantic Waveguide, Dry Intrusion, and Downstream Impact Campaign (NAWDIC)
(Linking to HiWeather, Working Group on Nowcasting and Mesoscale Research (NMR) and the Working Group on Predictability, Dynamics and Ensemble Forecasting (PDEF))
(2023 - 2026)
Purpose: NAWDIC is a new initiative for an international field campaign focusing on mid-latitude atmospheric dynamics with the aim to provide detailed observations for improving the understanding and modelling of the mesoscale tropopause structure, the dry intrusion air stream - PBL interaction, and their relation to high impact weather (HIW) in the North Atlantic region in winter. NAWDIC will build directly on insights from the North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream impact EXperiment.
Founding partners of the NAWDIC Project:
Advancing Nowcasting with Deep Learning techniques (ANDel)
Linking with the ADVANCE Project (Aiding Decision-making in Vulnerable Africa with Nowcasting of ConvEction)
Purpose: The ANDel Project is a pioneering initiative aimed at revolutionizing weather forecasting in West Africa. Leveraging cutting-edge DL techniques, ANDel seeks to drastically improve the precision and timeliness of weather predictions. Traditional nowcasting approaches often face challenges due to the need for frequent calibration and limited real-time data access. In contrast, DL techniques can learn intricate patterns from historical data and satellite imagery, enabling highly accurate predictions with minimal human intervention.
Founding partners of the ANDel Project:
Weather and Climate Information Services (WISER): Early Warnings for Southern Africa (EWSA)
Linking with the ADVANCE Project (Aiding Decision-making in Vulnerable Africa with Nowcasting of ConvEction)
(2023 - 2025)
Purpose: The WISER EWSA team of meteorologists, academics, economists, and user engagement specialists from South Africa, Zambia, Mozambique and the UK will work with disaster risk management agencies and non-governmental organisations, focusing on women and people with disabilities to reduce disaster risk through the co-production of new weather information services and early warnings.
Founding partners of the WISER-EWSA project:
TeamX (Multi-scale transport and exchange processes in the atmosphere over mountains – programme and experiment)
(2018 - 2024)
Purpose: Improve our understanding of exchange processes in the atmosphere over mountains and at evaluating how well these are parameterized in NWP and climate models.
(http://www.teamx-programme.org/)
Founding partners of the TeamX project:
MedCyclones (European network for Mediterranean cyclones in weather and climate)
Linking with HiWeather, URBAN Prediction and Integrated Precipitation and Hydrology for Early Action (InPRHA) Projects
(2020 - 2024)
Purpose: This Action will coordinate the activities of researchers in meteorology and climatology and scientists from weather/climate services with the main aims to provide a deeper understanding of Mediterranean cyclones and to improve significantly the European capacity to predict their environmental and climate impacts. In this context, the network will identify, and involve in the network, relevant stakeholders with different backgrounds (e.g. civil protection, re-insurance companies) and co-develop cyclone prediction products tailored to their needs.
(https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA19109/#tabs|Name:overview)
Countries involved in the MedCyclones project: Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland,Turkey, United Kingdom
Atmospheric River Reconnaissance (AR-Recon)
Linking with Integrated Precipitation and Hydrology for Early Action (InPRHA) Project
(2024 - 2025)
Purpose: Revolutionize the physical understanding, observations, weather predictions, seasonal outlooks and climate projections of extreme events in Western North America, including atmospheric rivers, the North American summer monsoon and their impacts on floods, droughts, hydropower, ecosystems and the economy. (Overview – Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (ucsd.edu))
Founded by:
Partners of the AR-Recon Project:
Flood Early Warning 4 Ethiopia: Urban Flood Warning for Africa as a step towards Early Warning for All
Linking with URBAN Prediction and Integrated Precipitation and Hydrology for Early Action (InPRHA) Projects
(2024 - 2025)
Purpose: The Project aims to demonstrate the implementation of a satellite-based nowcasting approach with local impact models for urban flood forecasting. the project responds to the global Anticipatory Action (AA) movement, in which the humanitarian aid sector moves from a responsive to a more pro-active approach for distributing humanitarian aid informed by early warning. The AA movement was followed by the UN EW4All initiative. The consortium has committed to the Water Action Agenda to support these global developments.
Founding partners of the project:
Climate Risk and Early Warnings (CREWS) Central Africa
Linking with the ADVANCE Project (Aiding Decision-making in Vulnerable Africa with Nowcasting of ConvEction) and the Working Group on Nowcasting and Mesoscale Research (NMR)
(2023 - 2027)
Purpose: The project aims to enhance national early warning systems with a multi-hazard, impact-based and seamless approach, based on strong regional cooperation with 11 Central African countries (PRESAC and ECCAS member states of which 7 ae LDCs and 1 SIDS: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equitorial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda and São Tomé and Príncipe). The project is proposed as a follow-up to the ECCAS Hydromet Forumheld from 4th to 6th May 2021.
Founding Partners of the project:
Project Forecast of Antarctic Sea Ice Trend (FAST)
Linking with Polar Coupled Analysis and Prediction for Services (PCAPS) Project
(2025 - 2023)
Purpose: Project FAST aims to identify the proceeses leading to the melting of Antarctic sea ice due to warming through field observations and international collaborations. It seeks to develop a long-term forecast system and generate seasonal forecast of Antarctic sea ice, incoporating Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques.
Founding Partners of the project:
Climate Risk and Early Warnings (CREWS) East Africa
Linking with the ADVANCE Project (Aiding Decision-making in Vulnerable Africa with Nowcasting of ConvEction) and the Working Group on Nowcasting and Mesoscale Research (NMR)
(2023 - 2027)
Purpose: The four year CREWS East Africa Project , aims to improve Early Warning Services (EWS) in East Africa and develop the coverage of impact-based early warning services across Lake Victoria and surrounding communities to support the East African Community (EAC) EWS Project Vision 2025.
CREWS East Africa includes the following partners:
