POLAR PREDICTION PROJECT

The Polar Prediction Project (PPP) is a 10-year (2013–2022) endeavour of the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) with the aim of promoting cooperative international research enabling development of improved weather and environmental prediction services for the polar regions, on time scales from hours to seasonal.

YEAR OF POLAR PREDICTION

The Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) is the flagship activity of PPP with the aim of enabling a significant improvement in environmental prediction capabilities for the polar regions and beyond, by coordinating a period of intensive observing, modelling, verification, user-engagement and education activities.

The Year of Polar Prediction is composed of three phases with the core phase taking place during the period May 2017 to June 2019.

A short video introducing YOPP can be found here.

The PPP Steering Group recently met at the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki (photo: Kati Johansson/Finnish Meteorological Institute)

The PPP Steering Group

The planning and implementation of PPP and YOPP is overseen by a steering group of international experts (find more information on the steering group here).

The steering group is supported by the International Coordination Office for Polar Prediction, which is hosted at the Alfred Wegener Institute.

The International Coordination Office for Polar Prediction (photo: Martina Buchholz/Alfred Wegener Institute)

International Coordination Office for Polar Prediction (ICO)

The PPP Steering Group is supported by the International Coordination Office for Polar Prediction, which is hosted by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in the context of a Memorandum of Understanding with the WMO.

Read more about the ICO.

SmartICE Operator driving the Smart Qamutik around Pond Inlet, Nunavut, to measure ice thickness (photo: SmartICE).

News

Giving the People What They Want: “Translating” Weather and Climate Information in the North American Arctic

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14 May 2019

In the new blog post on the Polar Prediction Matters website, Rick Thoman from Fairbanks, Alaska, and Gita Ljubicic from Ottawa, Canada, give practical examples how local weather, water, ice and climate information can effectively be disseminated today within Arctic communities.



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