Annex 2: Members’ Capacities for Arctic Polar RCC Services : Mandatory functions Operational Activities for Long Range Forecasts (LRF) Interpret and assess relevant LRF products from Global Canada interested in Producing Centres (GPCs), leadership role for LRF UK: global scale products and services of distribute relevant jointly with interested GPC Exeter; potential to develop information to RCC Users; Members products, such as snow related and provide feedback to quantities and sea ice forecasts GPCs USA: global scale products and services of GPC Washington; monthly and seasonal Generate regional and outlooks US and pan-Arctic (sea ice) tailored products, Russian Federation: monthly pan-Arctic relevant to RCC User needs, forecasts; Seasonal Eurasian Arctic sea including seasonal outlooks ice forecasts etc. France: Monthly Arctic sea ice outlooks Generate consensus (from global GPC Toulouse product) statement on regional or Canada: Pan-Arctic seasonal forecasts sub-regional forecasts (Precip, Temp, sea ice); Canadian Arctic ice outlook Perform verification of RCC Germany: Pan-Arctic seasonal outlooks quantitative LRF products, (T2m, SST, Sea-ice fraction, MSLP, Z500) including the exchange of Finland: operational LRF for Finland; basic forecasts and hindcast ocean and sea ice forecasts (weather data forecasts?) for Baltic Sea, Barents Sea Provide on-line access to and Kara Sea, Altimeter based sea ice RCC products/services to classification for Arctic RCC Norway: Ocean sea-ice forecast (Arctic, Nordic Seas) Assess use of RCC products and services through feedback from RCC Users Operational Activities for Climate Monitoring Norway: Pan-Arctic Sea Ice products and analyses Sweden: Climate monitoring (temp., precip, ice concentration, runoff) for Sweden and Baltic Sea Canada: Canadian Arctic and Pan-Arctic Perform climate diagnostics products maps (Temp, Precip, sea ice including analysis of climate concentration, snow anomalies) variability and extremes, at Germany: RA VI RCC-Network Node for regional and sub-regional climate monitoring products and services scales (60W-60E, up to 80N) Finland: climate bulletin (Finland) Iceland: Monthly Climate Diagnostics reports for Iceland and coastal environment USA: global scale climate monitoring (CPC) and local climate analysis tool (US)
Annex 2: Members’ Capacities for Arctic Polar RCC Services : Mandatory functions Operational Activities for Long Range Forecasts (LRF) Interpret and assess relevant LRF products from Global Producing Centres (GPCs), distribute relevant information to RCC Users; and provide feedback to GPCs UK: global scale products and services of GPC Exeter; potential to develop products, such as snow related quantities and sea ice forecasts USA: global scale products and services of GPC Washington; monthly and seasonal outlooks US and pan-Arctic (sea ice) Russian Federation: monthly pan-Arctic forecasts; Seasonal Eurasian Arctic sea ice forecasts France: Monthly Arctic sea ice outlooks (from global GPC Toulouse product) Canada: Pan-Arctic seasonal forecasts (Precip, Temp, sea ice); Canadian Arctic ice outlook Germany: Pan-Arctic seasonal outlooks (T2m, SST, Sea-ice fraction, MSLP, Z500) Finland: operational LRF for Finland; ocean and sea ice forecasts (weather forecasts?) for Baltic Sea, Barents Sea and Kara Sea, Altimeter based sea ice classification for Arctic Norway: Ocean sea-ice forecast (Arctic, Nordic Seas) Canada interested in leadership role for LRF jointly with interested Members Generate regional and tailored products, relevant to RCC User needs, including seasonal outlooks etc. Generate consensus statement on regional or sub-regional forecasts Perform verification of RCC quantitative LRF products, including the exchange of basic forecasts and hindcast data Provide on-line access to RCC products/services to RCC Assess use of RCC products and services through feedback from RCC Users Operational Activities for Climate Monitoring Perform climate diagnostics including analysis of climate variability and extremes, at regional and sub-regional scales Norway: Pan-Arctic Sea Ice products and analyses Sweden: Climate monitoring (temp., precip, ice concentration, runoff) for Sweden and Baltic Sea Canada: Canadian Arctic and Pan-Arctic products maps (Temp, Precip, sea ice concentration, snow anomalies) Germany: RA VI RCC-Network Node for climate monitoring products and services (60W-60E, up to 80N) Finland: climate bulletin (Finland) Iceland: Monthly Climate Diagnostics reports for Iceland and coastal environment USA: global scale climate monitoring (CPC) and local climate analysis tool (US)
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