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The Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC), in conjunction with the Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training (COMET®), will hold its Fourth Winter Weather Forecasting Course from November 30th to December 12th 2003 at the COMET classroom in Boulder, Colorado, USA. The course is an important component of the MSC/COMET training partnership. Funding for the partnership is provided in part through the Environment Canada Learning Fund.
Representatives from all five MSC Regions as well as Aviation and Defence Services and the Canadian Meteorological Centre will participate. The US National Weather Service (NWS) will send three participants from the northern "lower 48" states and two from Alaska. An invitation has also been extended to a private sector meteorologist from the Weather Network. Course instructors include professors from leading US and Canadian Universities as well as various experts from the MSC and the NWS.
Following input from the evaluations provided by participants in the previous Winter Weather Courses, the material to be presented has been further refined to increase its benefit to operational meteorologists.
The main focus of the course will once again be winter season significant weather, from the synoptic scale to the mesoscale. The ultimate goal for course participants is to increase their understanding of winter weather phenomena and, following the course, to transfer this knowledge to their forecasting colleagues. To further enable this knowledge transfer, the course is organized so that much of the lecture material will be available for the participants to take back to their offices as Power Point presentations or as Web-based modules.
To further facilitate knowledge transfer among the students, they will again be asked to prepare a short talk on a winter weather event from their own experience. In previous courses these talks stimulated much discussion among students working in various weather regimes across the continent, and provided a "reality break" following some of the more academic lectures.
To enable further improvements to be made to subsequent courses, the students
will again be asked to provide evaluations of the course content on a daily
basis. These evaluations will also be used in the design of other learning materials
and methods to help fulfill the MSC goal of developing a sound scientific basis
for the forecast process.
MSC/COMET Winter Weather Course
30 November - 12 December 2003
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For information on the MSC/COMET Winter Weather Course or on any other COMET Course, contact Dr. Greg Byrd @ byrd@comet.ucar.edu or for help in other areas:
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