Links
List of related initiatives, organizations, stakeholders and partners
WCRP (World Climate Research Programme)
- CHFP (Climate-system Historical Forecast Project)
- CliC (Climate and Cryosphere Project)
- GEWEX (Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment)
- GEWEX GASS (Global Atmospheric System Studies)
- GEWEX GLASS (Global Land/Atmosphere System Study)
- GHP (GEWEX Hydroclimatology Panel)
- GSOP (Global Synthesis and Observations Panel) of CLIVAR
- Ice-HFP (Sea Ice Historical Forecast Project)
- ASPeCT (Antarctic Sea Ice Processes and Climate) of SCAR/CliC
- SPARC (Stratosphere-troposhere Processes And their Role in Climate)
- SNAP (SPARC Stratospheric Network for the Assessment of Predictability)
- S2S (Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction Project)
- PCPI (WCRP Polar Climate Predictability Initiative)
- WGSIP (Working Group on Seasonal to Interdecadal Prediction)
CAS (Commission for Atmospheric Sciences) & WWRP (World Weather Research Programme)
THORPEX (The Observing System Research and Predictability Experiment)
JOINT
- JWGFVR (Joint Working Group on Forecast Verification Research)
- WGNE (JSC/CAS Working Group on Numerical Experimentation)
- WWRP SERA WG
CBS (WMO Commission for Basic Systems)
- ET-OFPS (Expert Team on the Operational Weather Forecasting Process and Support) under OPAG-DPFS (Data-Processing and Forecasting System)
- ET-OPSLS (Joint CBS-CCl Expert Team on Operational Predictions from Sub-Seasonal to Longer-Time Scales)
- OPAG-IOS (Open Programme Area Group on Integrated Observing Systems)
- WMO Lead Centre for Long-Range Forecast Multi-Model Ensemble
- WMO Lead Centre for the Long Range Forecast Verification System
GOVERNANCE
POLAR GROUPS
- ACCESS (Arctic Climate Change, Economy and Society)
- Arctic ECRA (European Climate Research Alliance)
- Arctic ROOS (Arctic Regional Ocean Observing System)
- IASC (International Arctic Science Committee) Atmosphere Working Group
- IICWG (International Ice Charting Working Group)
- PSTG (Polar Space Task Group)
- SAON (Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks)
- SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research)
- SEARCH (Study of Environmental Arctic Change)
ADDITIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND STAKEHOLDERS
- AARI (Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Russia)
- AWI (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany)
- Antarctica New Zealand
- AOMIP [GS2] (Arctic Ocean Model Intercomparison Project)
- Arctic Council
- Arctic Council Indigenous People’s Secretariat
- Arctic-HYDRA (The Arctic Hydrological Cycle Monitoring, Modelling and Assessment Program)
- ARCUS (Arctic Research Consortium of the United States)
- ArcticRIMS (A Regional, Integrated Hydrological Monitoring System for the Pan-Arctic Land Mass)
- ArcticNet (Canada)
- APECS (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists)
- Australian Antarctic Division
- British Antarctic Survey
- CGMS (The Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites)
- Community Earth System Model (CESM) Polar Climate Working Group (PCWG)
- Council of Managers of National Antarctic Program (COMNAP)
- Forum of Arctic Research Operators (FARO)
- Forum for Arctic Modeling and Observational Synthesis (FAMOS)
- Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P)
- GODAE (Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment) OceanView
- IAOOS (Ice-Atmosphere-Arctic Ocean Observing System)
- International Arctic Buoy Programme
- IASC (International Arctic Science Committee)
- IASSA (International Arctic Social Sciences Association)
- IAPSO (International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans) of IUGG
- ICPM (International Commission on Polar Meteorology) of IUGG-IAMAS
- International Permafrost Association (IPA)
- IPAB (International Programme for Antarctic Buoys)
- ISAC (International Study of Arctic Change)
- Norwegian Polar Institute
- Polar Educators International
- SCAR Expert Group on Operational Meteorology in the Antarctic
- SOOS (SCAR Southern Ocean Observing System)
- Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty
- NERC (UK Natural Environment Research Council / UK Arctic Office)
- BASC (US Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate)
- Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory
CIRCUMPOLAR & SOME OTHER NMSs/MODELLING CENTRES
- AMPS (The Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System)
- Argentina: Servicio Meteorológico Nacional
- Australia: Bureau of Meteorology & CAWCR
- New Zealand: MetService & NIWA
- Norway: Meteorologisk institutt
- Russian Federation: Hydrometeorological Center of Russia
- South Africa: South African Weather Service
- Sweden: Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
- UK: Met Office
- USA: National Weather Service - National Centres for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)
- Brazil: Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (INMET)
- Canada: Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
- Chile: Dirección Meteorológica de Chile
- ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts)
- Finland: Finnish Meteorological Institute
- Iceland: Icelandic Met Office

Icebergs in Antarctica 14. Photo: Tilman Hesse

Icebergs in Antarctica 16. Photo: Tilman Hesse

Icebergs in Antarctica 15. Photo: Tilman Hesse

Icebergs in Antarctica 17. Photo: Tilman Hesse

Icebergs in Antarctica 18. Photo: Tilman Hesse