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.

PPP Steering Group at their recent meeting in March 2018 in Reykjavik, Iceland (photo: Snorri Zóphóníasson/Icelandic Meteorological Office)

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.

Weather balloon deployed from the German Antarctic research station Neumayer III (Photo: Stefan Christmann/Alfred Wegener Institute)

News

Antarctic Summer Special Observing Period Starts This Week

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15 November 2018

This week, the Special Observing Period in the Antarctic starts. For three months, weather services and international scientists will increase the number of atmospheric and sea-ice observations from different Antarctic land stations, during terrestrial field expeditions and aboard research vessels in the Southern Ocean. Goal of the international Year of Polar Prediction is to improve weather and sea-ice forecasts in the polar regions.

http://www.polarprediction.net/news.html

Blizzards are a regular occurrence from October through May in the Canadian Arctic (photo: unknown).

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Blizzards in the Canadian Arctic – New Article for Polar Prediction Matters

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08 November 2018

In the new contribution to Polar Prediction Matters, two forecasters from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) report on automated prediction products to help forecasting blizzards in the Canadian Arctic.

http://www.polarprediction.net/news.html

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