Nowcasting Nowcasting concepts, basics and challenges Douglas Parker (45 min) Marjorie Bougeon & Satellite Nowcasting: Identifying convection initiation, lightening Aziz Diop (45 detection, and probability of severe weather including use of RDT 11:00-12:30 min) products Important Note: Please do the following e-learning courses by 15 November 2018 prior to the workshop: Please click on "Proceedings" at the bottom to see detailed introduction of application of Nowcasting techniques. Estimation propagation of MCC/MCS (about 30 minutes): 12:30-13:30 Lunch Break DGMN-Togo (15 min) 13:30-13:45 Current weather discussion Atmospheric instability and practical use of specific products and TBD - NOAA/NCEP indices in diagnosis of deep convection and severe weather 13:45-14:30 K-Index, Total Totals Index, Lifted Index, Vertical Velocity, CAPE, (45 min) Precipitable water, Theta-E etc. Marjorie Bougeon Practical Session: Satellite Nowcasting and Abdou Aziz Diop to lead) 14:30-15:30 (Lecturers may consider dividing trainees into several groups for Douglas Parker (to exercise) assist) (60 min) 15:30-16:00 Coffee/ Tea break Aziz Diop and Practical Session: Severe weather forecasting for Short-range David Koros (to lead) Preparing forecasts for Day 1 & Day 2 16:00-17:30 Other lecturers (to (Lecturers may consider dividing trainees into several groups for assist) (90 min) exercise) Day 4: Friday, 23 November 2018 Combining nowcast, NWP forecast & conceptual models Marjorie Bougeon 09:00-10:30 Concept models for heavy rain with examples (90 min) Blending of nowcast and NWP forecast 10:30-11:00 Coffee/ Tea break Introducing model output verification methods: contingency tables and scores (Lecture 45 minutes, practical 45 minutes) Andre Giguere (The participants will be able to carry out contingency table verification with the (90 min) help of the tools used in the session, and will understand the meaning of the most 11:00-12-30 useful scores) Important Note: Please following e-learning course on forecast verification by 15 November 2018 prior to the workshop.
11:00-12:30 Nowcasting Nowcasting concepts, basics and challenges Satellite Nowcasting: Identifying convection initiation, lightening detection, and probability of severe weather including use of RDT products Important Note: Please do the following e-learning courses by 15 November 2018 prior to the workshop: Please click on "Proceedings" at the bottom to see detailed introduction of application of Nowcasting techniques. Estimation propagation of MCC/MCS (about 30 minutes): Douglas Parker (45 min) Marjorie Bougeon & Aziz Diop (45 min) 12:30-13:30 Lunch Break 13:30-13:45 Current weather discussion DGMN-Togo (15 min) 13:45-14:30 Atmospheric instability and practical use of specific products and indices in diagnosis of deep convection and severe weather K-Index, Total Totals Index, Lifted Index, Vertical Velocity, CAPE, Precipitable water, Theta-E etc. TBD - NOAA/NCEP (45 min) 14:30-15:30 Practical Session: Satellite Nowcasting (Lecturers may consider dividing trainees into several groups for exercise) Marjorie Bougeon and Abdou Aziz Diop to lead) Douglas Parker (to assist) (60 min) 15:30-16:00 Coffee/ Tea break 16:00-17:30 Practical Session: Severe weather forecasting for Short-range Preparing forecasts for Day 1 & Day 2 (Lecturers may consider dividing trainees into several groups for exercise) Aziz Diop and David Koros (to lead) Other lecturers (to assist) (90 min) Day 4: Friday, 23 November 2018 09:00-10:30 Combining nowcast, NWP forecast & conceptual models Concept models for heavy rain with examples Blending of nowcast and NWP forecast Marjorie Bougeon (90 min) 10:30-11:00 Coffee/ Tea break 11:00-12-30 Introducing model output verification methods: contingency tables and scores (Lecture 45 minutes, practical 45 minutes) (The participants will be able to carry out contingency table verification with the help of the tools used in the session, and will understand the meaning of the most useful scores) Important Note: Please following e-learning course on forecast verification by 15 November 2018 prior to the workshop. Andre Giguere (90 min)
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