What are WMO RCCs?

WMO Regional Climate Centers (RCCs) are centres of excellence that create regional products including long-range forecasts that support regional and national climate activities, and thereby strengthen the capacity of WMO Members in a given region to deliver better climate services to national users.

RCC Functions

WMO RCCs perform the following set of mandatory functions covering the domains of long-range forecasting (LRF), climate monitoring, data services and training.

Main Products

ClimatView

GPC Tokyo (a Global Producing Center for Long-range Forecasts (LRF))

TCC News

Introduction to ITACS

Monthly Highlights on Climate System (latest issue)

STRATALERT TOKYO  last updated : 05 Feb 2013

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14 June 2013

• Updated Information: Climate System Monitoring

- Monthly Highlights on Climate System (May 2013, PDF, 374KB)

- Monthly Report (May 2013)

- Seasonal Report (March - May 2013)

14 June 2013

• Updated Information: World Climate

- Monthly Report (May 2013)

- Seasonal Report (March - May 2013)

14 June 2013

• Updated Information: Global Average Surface Temperature Anomalies

- Monthly Anomalies (May 2013)

- Seasonal Anomalies (March - May 2013)

10 June 2013

• Updated Information: El Niño Outlook (June - December 2013)

10 June 2013

• Updated Information: Climate in Japan

- Monthly Report (May 2013)

- Seasonal Report (March - May 2013)

28 May 2013

• Grounds for Three-month Outlook (June to August 2013)

21 May 2013

• Verification of one-month forecast page updated

- Time series of anomaly correlation in the tropics newly available

17 May 2013

• TCC News No. 32 (Spring 2013: PDF)

- El Niño Outlook (April - October 2013)

- JMA's Seasonal Numerical Ensemble Prediction for Summer 2013

- Warm Season Outlook for Summer 2013 in Japan

- Summary of the 2012/2013 Asian Winter Monsoon

- Introduction to New Animation Maps Products on the TCC website

- New Design of RA II RCC Portal Site

- Participation of TCC Experts in RCOFs and Expert Visit to BMKG

- Pilot Project on Information Sharing on Climate Services

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Links

Japan Meteorological Agency

• Japanese 25-year ReAnalysis (JRA-25) and JMA Climate Data Assimilation System (JCDAS)

• JRA-25 Atlas

• Monthly Climate Statistics for Japan

• Tokyo Global Information System Centre (GISC Tokyo)

• World Data Center for Greenhouse Gases (WDCGG)

• Satellite Imagery of MTSAT-2

• RSMC Tokyo - Typhoon Center

• Meteorological Research Institute, JMA

• Meteorological Satellite Center, JMA

Regional Climate Centers

• RA II Regional Climate Center (RCC) Network Homepage

• Beijing Climate Center

• North Eurasian Climate Center (NEACC)

• WMO RA VI RCC-Network

International Organization

• World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

• GCOS Surface Network Monitoring Center (GSNMC)

• Severe Weather Information Center

• World Weather Information Service

• Asian Disaster Reduction Center

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