What are WMO RCCs?

WMO RCCs (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 : 06 Feb 2012

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What's New

10 May 2012

• TCC News No. 28 (Spring 2012: PDF)

16 May 2012

• Updated Information: Climate System Monitoring

- Monthly Highlights on Climate System (April 2012, PDF, 443KB)

- Monthly Report (April 2012)

14 May 2012

• Updated Information: Global Average Surface Temperature Anomalies

- Monthly Anomalies (April 2012)

14 May 2012

• Updated Information: World Climate

- Monthly Report (April 2012)

11 May 2012

• Updated Information: El Niño Outlook (May - November 2012 )

10 May 2012

• Updated Information: Climate in Japan

- Monthly Report (April 2012)

27 April 2012

• Grounds for Three-month Outlook (May to July 2012)

5 April 2012

• Summary of verification of one month forecast in 2011

29 March 2012

• Annual Report on Climate System 2011

27 February 2012

• Grounds for Warm Season Outlook (June - August 2012)

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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

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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