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.
NEWS
YOPP Southern Hemisphere Session at
ICSHMO Conference in New Zealand
17 August 2021
From 8 to 12 February 2022, the 13th International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography (ICSHMO) will be held. Aim of the conference is to review „all things south the equator” such as “oceans, ice, weather, climate, advances in science and technology”. A YOPP in the Southern Hemisphere (YOPP-SH) session is planned during ICSHMO to summarize the current state of knowledge around meteorological research in preparation of the upcoming YOPP-SH special observing period in austral winter/spring 2022.
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