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operates a technical cooperation programme, the

Expert Program for Climate Predictions, to which long-

range weather forecasters from developing countries

in the Asia-Pacific region are invited every year. It is

implemented with full financial support from the Korea

International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). To assist

developing countries in their development of numer-

ical weather prediction skills and capacity building, a

GEO cooperation programme such as the GEO

Capacity Building Training Workshop for Numerical

Weather Prediction has also been organized by KMA.

The first training workshop was held at the KMA head-

quarters in Seoul, in April 2007. The fifteen

participants from fourteen GEO member states in Asia,

Europe and Africa attended at the training programme

with the full financial support of KMA. During this

workshop, both theoretical lectures and some exercises

in NWP were provided, with special classes by invited

lecturers from the GEO Secretariat and Environment

Canada. Such training events will continue to be orga-

nized, with a hope that KMA will partner in the

endeavors of National Meteorological and Hydrological

Services in developing countries to cope with unusual

climate and meteorological disasters.

WMO Lead Centre for LRF MME prediction homepage

KMA will work as a collector of global LRF data provided by other GPCs. Such

prediction data will be standardized and disseminated to other GPCs and

Regional Climate Centers (RCCs)

Source:

GEO Capacity Building Training Workshop for Numerical Weather Prediction

In April 2007 fifteen participants from fourteen GEO member states in Asia, Europe and Africa attended GEO Capacity Building Training Workshop

for Numerical Weather Prediction with the full financial support of KMA

Photo: KMA

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