Date |
Period |
Program |
Monday, 7 November |
AM |
1. Opening session Welcome address Self-introduction by participants Group photo shooting Photo(9.9MB) List_of_Participants(93KB) Courtesy call on JMA's Director-General |
2. introduction - Objectives and structure of the training seminar - Products available on the TCC website |
3. Climate Analysis - Atmospheric Circulation Analysis for Seasonal Forecasting (3.54MB) - How to use JMA's web-base application for climate analysis (ITACS: Interactive Tool for Analysis of the Climate System) (2.29MB) |
PM |
4. JMA Ensemble Prediction System (EPS) for seasonal prediction - Outline of the JMA operational EPS - Model products on the TCC website - How to download and use the gridded data (grid point values; GPVs) of the JMA numerical models (8.35MB) |
5. Seasonal Forecasting - Predictability of the model - How to interpret model output - How to issue seasonal forecast in JMA (3.51MB) |
Tuesday, 8 November |
AM |
6. Producing Guidance and Verification - What is seasonal forecast guidance (500KB) - Verification of probabilistic forecasts (648KB) Exercise :Producing site-specific guidance using domestic data (2.03MB) |
PM |
6. Producing Guidance and Verification (exercise continued) |
7. Preparing one-month forecast Exercise: Preparing one-month forecast using the guidance prepared in session 6 |
Wednesday, 9 November |
AM |
7. Preparing one-month forecast (exercise continued) Preparing presentations to be given in session 8 |
PM |
8. Presentations and Discussion Presentations on one-month forecast for November 2011 |
9. Closing session |