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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 Sixth Winter Weather Forecasting Course from November 28th to December 9th 2005 at the COMET classroom in Boulder, Colorado, USA. The course is an important component of the MSC/COMET training partnership in its continuing efforts to build stronger links between science and forecast operations.

Representatives from all five MSC Regions as well as Aviation and Defense Services will participate. The US National Weather Service (NWS) will send two participants from the Alaska Region as well as one Scandinavian forecaster and one participant from the Weather Network in Canada. Course instructors include professors from leading U.S. and Canadian Universities as well as various experts from the MSC, the NWS, and Europe.

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 06-1
27 November - 9 December 2005 

TRAVEL/PRE-COURSE INFORMATION

 

COURSE SCHEDULE
  • Evaluation Week 1
  • Evaluation Week 2

For information on the MSC/COMET Winter Weather Course, please contact Phil Chadwick or James Cummine . For help in other areas:

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