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

A windsled was used in summer 2019 to carry a mobile Automatic Weather Station designed to endure the harsh conditions across the East Antarctic Plateau on a route that covered more than 2,500 km, powered only by winds (photo: Windsled team AEMET).

Reanalysis Study Calls for More Small-Scale Observations over East Antarctic Plateau

8 June 2021

In a new study, González et al. analyzed the mesoscale surface air temperature gradients around Dome F station on the Antarctic Plateau combining ERA5 reanalysis outputs and in-situ weather observations.

Find all news items here.

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

The PPP Steering Group (PPP-SG)

The planning and implementation of PPP and YOPP is overseen by a Steering Group (PPP-SG) of international experts (find more information on the Steering Group here).

The Steering Group is supported by the International Coordination Office for Polar Prediction (ICO), which is hosted at the Alfred Wegener Institute.

The International Coordination Office for Polar Prediction (photo: Lorenzo Zampieri/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 World Meteorological Organization.

YOPP Data Portal

The YOPP Data Portal at yopp.met.no harvests data sets generated as part of the Year of Polar Prediction from various data archives making them visible through the portal.

PolarPrediction Mailing List

Our PolarPrediction Mailing List (polarprediction@climate-cryosphere.org) is a mailing list for anyone interested in polar weather and climate predictability and prediction. The list is maintained by CliC and PPP. Subscriber can send anything relevant – including, but not limited to, upcoming events, recent papers, questions, ideas, etc. To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send an e-mail indicating your current affiliation to office@polarprediction.net.

For information on the PolarPrediction mailing list and on the other mailing lists that we host can be found here.

The YOPP Final Summit 1–4 May 2022 in Montreal, Canada

The IcePod – the Podcast about Polar Science and the People

Polar Prediction Matters - Foster Dialogue between Providers and Users of Polar Forecasts

Partners

AWI - Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

APECS - Association of Polar Early Career Scientists

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