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The ASMET (African Satellite Meteorology Education and Training) project produces online and CD-based learning lessons that teach African forecasters how to enhance their forecasts by making better use of meteorological satellite images and products. 

Le Centre Régional AGRHYMET est une institution spécialisée du Comité Permanent Inter-Etats de Lutte contre la Sécheresse dans le Sahel (CILSS) regroupant treize pays qui sont :Bénin, Burkina Faso, Cap Vert, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambie, Guinée, Guinée-Bissau, Mali, Mauritanie, Niger, Sénégal, Tchad et le Togo.

L’École Africaine de la Météorologie et de l’Aviation Civile (EAMAC) est le centre de formation de l’Agence pour la Sécurité de la Navigation Aérienne en Afrique et à Madagascar (ASECNA)

The University of Nairobi Department of Meteorology involved in teaching, research and consultancy in Meteorology to address atmospheric and related problems, in pursuit of operational excellence. Training offered in the department opens the door to a wide range of careers

The Institute for Meteorological Training and Research/ Regional Training Center (IMTR) is a branch of the Kenya Meteorological Department (KMD) under the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources (MEMR) charged with the responsibility of training personnel in meteorology, hydrology and related geo-sciences in the country and the Anglophone countries in Africa. 

The FUTA Department of Meteorology offers a full degree in Meteorology at both undergraduate and post-graduate level. Apart from independent (privately-sponsored) students, the department trains Nigerians as well as those from other African countries in applied Meteorology.

The Meteorological Training Institute of the South African Weather Service aims to deliver quality training and is always on the lookout for the need to build strong partnerships with relevant educational institutions, farmers, aviation, other government departments, WMO and other international meteorological institutions.

For contact information, see the ETR Office RTC page.

For more information, see the EMA website.

For contact information, see the ETR Office RTC page.

For contact information, see the ETR Office RTC page.

WASCAL (West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use) is a large-scale research-focused Climate Service Centre designed to help tackle this challenge and thereby enhance the resilience of human and environmental systems to climate change and increased variability. It does so by strengthening the research infrastructure and capacity in West Africa related to climate change and by pooling the expertise of ten West African countries and Germany.

Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), WASCAL is implemented in a collaborative effort by West African and German partners.

The Competence Centre, a newly established institute in West Africa, carries out research and provides science-based advice to policymakers and stakeholders on climate change impacts, mitigation, and adaptation measures. The Core Research Programme complements the scientific activities of the Competence Center, and is implemented by a network of German and West African research institutes. The Graduate Studies Programme, involving the creation of ten graduate schools in West Africa, contributes to the education of the next generation of African scientists and policy makers in the field of climate change and land management.

China operates two WMO Regional Training Centre components with the RTC-Nanjing and its Beijing branch, CMA,  which contributes to the capacity building of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs). WMO RTC Nanjing is located at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (former Nanjing Institute of Meteorology).

The NWA is envisaged to function as a 'Center of Excellence' in training water resources personnel. It is addressing the wider training needs of water resources engineers of States and Central Agencies in the fields of planning, design, evaluation, construction, operation and monitoring of water resources projects.

The Department of Hydrology is one among the 21 academic departments of the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. The Department came into existence with the inception of the International Post Graduate Course in Hydrology in 1972, being the first such a programme in a developing country. The courses, offered by the Department are presently sponsored by the Government of India and the UNESCO.

The Meteorological Training Institute of IMD has facilities for meteorological training at Pune and New Delhi, and focus on General Meteorology, Radio-meteorology, Telecommunications and Agrometeorology. 

Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology has held 118 international training courses and 35 bilateral training courses by October 2017. 

For contact information, see the ETR Office RTC page.

For contact information, see the ETR Office RTC page.

Visit the website of the Centro Regional de Formación, Servicio Meteorológico Nacional for many learning opportunities and resources, including distance learning courses. 

The University of Buenos Aires Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales offers a variety of degree programmes and short courses. 

University of Costa Rica: La Escuela de Física es una unidad académica dedicada a la enseñanza, investigación, la acción social y la difusión del conocimiento en las áreas de la Física, Ciencias Atmosféricas y Ciencias del espacio, estimulando la formación de una conciencia creativa, crítica y objetiva; reafirmando la interrelación de dichas áreas y aplicándolas en lo posible, al bienestar humano.

CIMH serves the sixteen member countries of the Caribbean Meteorological Organization (CMO), as well as from non-member countries such as the Bahamas, Suriname, and some African countries. The training program is designed to ensure that meteorology and hydrology make their maximum contribution to the economic development of the region.

O objetivo do CVEM é oferecer ensino e treinamento em Meteorologia para países de língua espanhola na América do Sul e portuguesa dos países africanos. Através dessa atividade espera-se atingir um alto grau de cooperação e troca de experiências entre os serviços meteorológicos dos países e as instituições acadêmicas da Região III/OMM, de forma organizada e produtiva, muito além das experiências individuais existentes.

El Departamento Académico de Ingeniería Ambiental Física y Meteorología, es una Dependencia académica de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (UNALM), está dedicado a la investigación científica en las áreas de la Ingeniería, Gestión y Tecnología Ambiental; Meteorología, Energías Renovables y Física Aplicada.

Universidad Central de Venezuela has operated a WMO RTC since 1975.

PAGASA TRAINING ACTIVITIES: Invitation of Trainings 

For contact information, see the ETR Offce RTC page. 

ECMWF provides training  to enable its partners to get the most from ECMWF's services and develop an advanced understanding of forecasting. It also provides many online resources among its educational materials. 

EUMETCAL Training Portal: Information about training activities organised for European meteorologists and trainers. You will also find links to useful resources and tools for development of training in meteorology and related sciences.

EUMETRAIN is an international traiing project sponsored by EUMETSAT to support and increase the use of meteorological satellite data. It offers both online events and online resources. 

EUMETSAT Training offers courses and resources to support its regional and international users. The EUMETSAT Training Library offers freely available training materials for anyone wishing to understand how to use and interpret satellite data.

Met Office College: World-renowned for excellence in training, the Met Office College offers a range of professional courses for meteorological service providers and tailored tuition for industry and the public sector.

The Regional Meteorological Training Centre (RMTC) in Bet Dagan is a joint enterprise of the Israel Meteorological Service, the Centre of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MASHAV) and the WMO.

IBE is hosting and operating the Regional Training Center of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO-RTC) (https://training.climateservices.it/rtc-italy/) in Florence - Italy, serving WMO Members in RA-VI (Europe) and RA-I (Africa) in key areas of agrometeorology, climate change response and climate services.

Russian State Hydrometeorological University (RSHU) offers courses at all levels of higher professional training leading to BA, MA, Specialist, Candidate (equivalent to PhD) and Doctor of Sciences degrees in the area of environmental studies.

The Advanced Training Institute of Roshydromet (ATI)  offers short-term advanced training in hydrometeorological management, hydrometeorological provision of economics, methods of hydrometeorological observations, hydrometeorologucal data proceessing, and meteorological forecasting, among others. 

Turkish State Meteorological Service (TSMS) Regional Training Center offers short-term training seminars in satellite meteorology, agricultural meteorology and climate, weather forecasting; meteorological communications and applications.

The COMET Programme offers MetEd as a free collection of hundreds of training resources intended for the geoscience community, with a strong focus on operational meteorology. 

VLab is a global network of specialized training centres and meteorological satellite operators working together to improve the utilisation of data and products from meteorological and environmental satellites.

Now available: The WMO Trainer Resources Portal, hosting 60+ course resources used in the WMO Course for Trainers, plus additional new resources to support the WMO Competency Requirements for Education and Training Providers.

24 facilitators from 16 institutions = A successful online course

Next year will marks the 8th edition of the Online Course for Trainers by the WMO Education and Training Office, an ongoing project to introduce the skills and knowledge that support development of WMO Competencies for Training Providers. The online course takes place over five to nine weeks, depending on its focus, with 6-8 hours per week of required effort. The course has been delivered in English, French, Spanish (led by SMN Argentina), and Russian (led by Roshydromet) to approximately 350 graduates. The 2020 edition on Education and Training Innovations hosted over 200 participants. 

The 2021 edition will be offered in Spanish.

The course has benefitted from the contributions of over 20 volunteer facilitators from EUMETSAT, Eumetcal, NOAA/NWS, Meteo France, ECMWF, EC-MSC Canada, Met Office College, WMO VLab, SMN Argentina, RSHU, RTC CIMH Barbados, RTC CVEM Brazil, IPMA Portugal, DMN Morocco, ASECNA, MeteoSwiss, CMATC, BMKG Indonesia, the COMET Program, and RTC National Water Academy, India. Many of the facilitators were past participants.

The Climate Services Toolkit (CST) will serve as the principal mechanism for sharing data, software tools, guidance and training resources for climate services development. We envision that CST will improve efficiency and raise capacity of service providers by facilitating the production, communication and application of climate information products. It will ensure that the information and products developed for and provided to end-users are reliable, consistent – through time and across regions – and of high quality. CST will facilitate climate services standards and consistency in support of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services.  Finally, we hope CST will reduce the need for expensive capacity building through the availability of training resources. The CST will also make training workshops more focused, tangible and efficient in imparting the operational skills.

In collaboration with the Bureau of Meteorology Training Centre of Australia (BoMTC) and future key stakeholders, the COMET Program is developing a series of courses to help bridge the knowledge gap between the education level of incoming degree holders and WMO Basic Instruction Package for Meteorological Technicians (BIP-MT) qualified observers and the level of study required to complete studies to meet WMO Basic Instruction Package for Meteorologists (BIP-M) certification. The effort will focus on two main content areas:

• Prerequisite courses in math and physics
• Foundations of Meteorology courses covering fundamentals of atmospheric structure, thermodynamics, dynamics, climate, weather observing and analysis, and numerical weather prediction.

The first Met 101 lessons are now available (login required): Introduction to the Atmosphere and Basic Weather Processes

The African Satellite Meteorology Education and Training (ASMET) project produces online and CD-based lessons to teach African forecasters how to enhance their forecasts by making better use of meteorological satellite images and products. The lessons are produced by the ASMET team of meteorology instructors from the South African Weather Service (Pretoria), Institute for Meteorological Training and Research (Kenya), EAMAC/ASECNA (Niger) and Morocco National Meteorology Department or DNM (Morocco) as well as staff from EUMETSAT (Germany) and the COMET Program (UCAR, USA). The project is funded by EUMETSAT and managed by EUMETSAT and COMET.

The RTC in Argentina led a region-wide event on DRR involving 8 WMO Member countries, in which a facilitated, virtual workshop was carried out to promote effective coordination between national meteorological and hydrological services (NMHSs) and decision makers for the issuance of early warnings for disaster risk reduction and management. Its development and implementation followed the guidelines of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) regarding the role of national meteorological and hydrological services in the reduction of disaster risk, based on the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 and the Sendai Framework for the Reduction of Disaster Risk 2015-2030. There process included 5 steps:

1. Forming working teams in each country representing the Meteorological Service, National Civil Protection, and a Local Civil Protection partner. 
2. Presentations from each participant on the mission, competencies, and structure of their institution. 
3. Collecting information on forecast products that could be used in integrated risk management and a communication flow chart. 
4. Selecting and analyzing a successfully communicated high-impact event (case study) to share and analyze. 
5. Video discussion among participants to review the workshop contents and outcomes, as well as lessons learnt for future workshops. 

The success of the event was due to its incorporating country-specific participatory tools that ensure fluid communication among participants, which will enhance the global applicability of the virtual iorkshop format as a powerful tool to raise the awareness of disaster risk reduction among the NMHSs and emergency agencies of WMO Members.

The link to the full report (Spanish) is also available at PrimerasArgentina-1_Virtual_Workshop.pdf. 

The 7th edition of the "Climatology, foundation for climate services" training took place at the École Nationale de la Météorologie (ENM) from June 11 to 22, 2018. Delivered in English this year, it was attended by 18 participants from 15 national meteorological services. Once again this year, the training included external speakers from WMO, IRSTEA, the Climate Change Center at the University of Taragona , the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and the Direction Générale de la Météorologie Service, Madagascar. In total, nearly 30 speakers succeeded to animate this workshop, together with many directorates of Météo-France. Read more about the course on the Météo France website.

The Seasonal Forecast Course Package was proposed to increase the reach of high quality training materials, to address the need to update curricula in institutions serving WMO Members, and to increase collaboration between WMO Regional Training Centres. Within the project, led by the Instituto di Biometeorology (IBIMET), the Regional Training Centre in Italy, and in collaboration with Servicio Nacional de Meterologia e Hidrologia del Peru (SENHAMI), the WMO RTC in Peru, existing resources based on a series of courses on applications and processes related to using seasonal climate forecasts were packaged for adaptation and reuse by other institutions.

The goal of the course is to improve seasonal climate forecast knowledge in order to improve operational capabilities. It provides theortical and practical knowledge on seasonal forecast and predictability models, climate and data analysis, forecast verification, and specific applications of seasonal forecasts for agriculture and water management.

Now available from Argentina SMN: Espacio de Prácticas para Pronosticadores (free login required)

The Conceptual Models for the Southern Hemisphere (CM4SH) project produced quality resources for meteorologists to identify and forecast key atmospheric phenomena. This new project produced a workbook on the application of conceptual models intended to assist teachers/tutors in integrating conceptual models into their foundation training in forecasting as well as in refresher courses for in service forecasters. For each conceptual model, the workbook includes:

• a) an overview of the Conceptual Model
• b) learning activities and quizzes based on the analysis of satellite images for a variety of situations
• c) a simulation to experience a real event, and d) answers, feedback and topics for discussion

The COMET Translation Resource Center (TRC) supports the WMO community's efforts to expand the availability of training materials through translation. Here you'll find resources to guide and support translation efforts and a forum to exchange ideas and resources. The TRC was developed as a collaborative WMO Global Campus project by the COMET Program and the Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) with funding by NOAA’s National Weather Service International Activities Office.

The purpose of the Conceptual Models for Southern Hemisphere (CM4SH) project is to improve warnings and awareness of weather risks. The project has produced, and made resources available on, Conceptual Models for the VLab Centres of Excellence as well as for other training institutions within WMO regions. CCM4SH is a joint project between four southern hemispheric Centres of Excellence: Argentina, Australia, Brazil and South Africa. The project is co-funded by WMO and EUMETSAT. The first CM4SH project was completed in March 2014 and a second was launched in January 2015 with an expert group from the Indonesian Agency for Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysics (BMKG).

The purpose of this WISER project is to build capability within the Institute for Meteorological Training and Research (IMTR) in Kenya to deliver a modernized training program that meets WMO learning objectives for meteorologists. The basis of the project is a partnership between IMTR, a WMO regional training centre, and the Met Office College, to design, develop and co-deliver training for the benefit of the East African meteorological community.

Through international cooperation, UCAR/COMET has developed two Ensemble Prediction System online learning modules with contributions by MSC of Canada, ECMWF, several European NHMSs and Manchester University. Eumetcal was a liaison for the European partners and supported and on-site meeting. To learn more please visit  https://eumetcal.eu/news/eps-modules/ , or access the modules directly at (https://www.meted.ucar.edu/).

Communicating Forecast Uncertainty, European Case
https://www.meted.ucar.edu/training_module.php?id=1260#.WN6PaGQrIuU

EPS Products Reference Guide
https://www.meted.ucar.edu/training_module.php?id=1261#.WN6PeGQrIuU

Additional modules are in development.

During the 2016 edition of the WMO Train the Trainers Online Course and WMO Training Development Workshop, it became apparent that many Members of RA III and RA IV were working to address similar needs for training programmes for meteorological observers, based on the WMO Aeronautical Meteorological Observers Competency Standards, thus, they decided to join efforts and work together. The group discussed a framework and the Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN) Argentina offered their training programme as a potential basis. The SMN observers course is already in the process of being adapted and updated to introduce new technological improvements in human observation and to consider advances that are expected to continue.

The goal of the project will be to create a Collaborative Training Development Plan on Meteorological Observations that can be used to guide training for project members, with the possibility of sharing the resulting training resources. Current potential partners include República Dominicana, Mexico, Honduras, Argentina, Perú, and Uruguay. This training project is directly related to three WMO Priority Areas: the WMO Integrated Global Observing System (WIGOS), Aviation Meteorology Services and Capacity Development.