For WMO RCC highly recommended functions (climate prediction and projection services, non-operational data services, co-ordination functions, capacity building and R&D), almost 70 per cent of responding Members required this activity to be performed or co-ordinated by a Polar RCC around 60 per cent of responding Members indicated interest in contributing to PRCC highly recommended functions WMO request of December 2015 for potential national contributions to the proposed Arctic PRCC for Mandatory Functions: Activities PRCC contributions offered PRCC services to be developed Function: Operational Activities for Long Range Forecasting Interpret GPC products Various GPC products available Generate regional Various regional/sub-regional Arctic LRF capability for TT, RR tailored products sea-ice forecasts (mainly and parameter to be monthly or seasonal) developed (MME) Generate consensus Arctic RCOF and other statements consensus mechanisms to be developed Perform verification incl. Available for GPC products Verification system to be data exchange developed for regional LRF Provide on-line access to Largely available for above To be developed for new services existing services products and services Facilitate user feedback Assumed to be in place for above To be considered for new existing services products and services Function: Operational Activities for Climate Monitoring Climate diagnostics Various products offered, which Minimum option: Inventory together cover almost the entire Desired option: Consistency Arctic (Review user requirements) Historical reference Various reference climatologies ?Reference climatology for climatology exist, which together cover large classic parameter (TT, RR) for parts of the Arctic Eurasia? Minimum option: Inventory Desired option: Consistency Climate Watch system Partly available for European Climate Watch system to be implementation Arctic sub-regions developed Function: Operational Data Services to support LRF and Climate Monitoring Develop regional climate Various data sets offered, which Minimum option: Inventory data sets together cover almost the entire Desired option: Development of Arctic an Arctic (gridded) data set of selected ECVs Provide climate database n/a n/a and archiving services at the request of Function: Training in the Use of Operational RCC Products and Services
For WMO RCC highly recommended functions (climate prediction and projection services, non-operational data services, co-ordination functions, capacity building and R&D), almost 70 per cent of responding Members required this activity to be performed or co-ordinated by a Polar RCC around 60 per cent of responding Members indicated interest in contributing to PRCC highly recommended functions WMO request of December 2015 for potential national contributions to the proposed Arctic PRCC for Mandatory Functions: Activities PRCC contributions offered PRCC services to be developed Function: Operational Activities for Long Range Forecasting Interpret GPC products Various GPC products available Generate regional tailored products Various regional/sub-regional sea-ice forecasts (mainly monthly or seasonal) Arctic LRF capability for TT, RR and parameter to be developed (MME) Generate consensus statements Arctic RCOF and other consensus mechanisms to be developed Perform verification incl. data exchange Available for GPC products Verification system to be developed for regional LRF Provide on-line access to services Largely available for above existing services To be developed for new products and services Facilitate user feedback Assumed to be in place for above existing services To be considered for new products and services Function: Operational Activities for Climate Monitoring Climate diagnostics Various products offered, which together cover almost the entire Arctic Minimum option: Inventory Desired option: Consistency (Review user requirements) Historical reference climatology Various reference climatologies exist, which together cover large parts of the Arctic ?Reference climatology for classic parameter (TT, RR) for Eurasia? Minimum option: Inventory Desired option: Consistency Climate Watch system implementation Partly available for European Arctic sub-regions Climate Watch system to be developed Function: Operational Data Services to support LRF and Climate Monitoring Develop regional climate data sets Various data sets offered, which together cover almost the entire Arctic Minimum option: Inventory Desired option: Development of an Arctic (gridded) data set of selected ECVs Provide climate database and archiving services at the request of n/a n/a Function: Training in the Use of Operational RCC Products and Services
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