WMO REGIONAL PROGRAMME

LIST OF REGIONAL EVENTS

CONDUCTED DURING THE PERIOD 2007 – 2011

REGIONAL ASSOCIATION I (AFRICA)

LIST OF REGIONAL EVENTS IN RA I (June 2007 – May 2010)

(1) CONSTITUENT BODY SESSIONS AND RA I TECHNICAL CONFERENCES / REGIONAL SEMINARS

• Regional Association I (Africa) - 15th session (RA I-XV), 1—8 November 2010, Marrakech, Morocco

(2) RAI Subsidiary bodies meetings

• Meeting of Directors of NMHSs of Southern Africa (SADC Region), Maseru, Lesotho, October 2007

• Meeting of Directors of East African Community (EAC) countries, Arusha, Tanzania,

October 2007;

• Meeting of Directors of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services of North and West African Countries, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 17–19 October 2007

• RA I Advisory Working Group and the eighth meeting of the Committee of Directors of

Meteorological Services of ECOWAS member States, Dakar, Senegal, May 2008

• The Eighteenth Session of the RAI Tropical Cyclone Committee for the South-West Indian Ocean, Lilongwe, Malawi, 6-10 October 2008;

• • RA I Working Group on Climate Matters, Cotonou, Benin, 25-27 November 2008;

• The Directors/Heads of Meteorological Services in East African Community (EAC) meeting,

Arusha, Tanzania, 28-29 November 2008;

• Meeting of the African Focal points on Climate Change/African High Level Expert Panel on Climate Change (AHLEPCC), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 19-23 October 2009;

• Meeting of the Directors of West Africa NMHSs, Banjul, Gambia, 3-5 February 2010;

• Meeting of the Heads of Meteorological Services in EAC, Kigali, Rwanda, 22-28 May 2010;

(3) Meetings, Workshops and Training Courses

• Capacity Building Workshop for Heads of NMHSs and the LDC National Focal Points, Entebbe, Uganda; September 2007,

• WMO Expert Meeting on Marine Meteorology in West Africa, Dakar, Senegal; February

2008

• Expert meeting on the organization of a roving seminar on Weather and Climate for Farmers, Niamey, Niger, April 2008

• GAT meeting, Cape Verde, 1 July 2008

• Workshop on the management and meeting of the Directors of National Meteorological and

Hydrological Services of West African Countries, Niamey, Niger, 11- 14 November 2008

• Mid–Term Validation Workshop on the formulation of Action Programme on the Reduction

of Vulnerability of West Africa to Climate Change, Banjul, Gambia, 2 - 4 March 2009

• International Workshop on Adaptation to Climate Change in West African Agriculture, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 27–30 April 2009;

• 12th Regional climate outlook forum (PRESAO-12) tagged “Seasonal Climate Prediction as

a tool for Water Resources Management, Food Security and Risk Management” for Central and West Africa, Niamey, Niger, 21-22 May 2009;

• The Twentieth Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN),

Johannesburg, South Africa, 7-12 June 2008;

• The First Meeting of the Steering Committee of the AMESD Programme, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 6-10 July 2008;

• The 12th Southern Africa Regional Climate Outlook Forum (SARCOF-12), Pretoria, South

Africa, 26-29 August 2008;

• The 22nd Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum (GHACOF-22), Nairobi, Kenya, 28-29 August 2008;

• The Statistics in Applied Climatology Course (F-SIAC), Nairobi, Kenya, 18 August– 12

September 2008;

• The Statistics in Applied Climatology Course (F-SIAC), Nairobi, Kenya, 22 September–10 October 2008;

• The First Scientific Conference of the Ethiopian Meteorological Society, Addis Ababa,

Ethiopia, 14-17 October 2008;

• Weather Eye-to-Eye Media Course, Nairobi, Kenya, 3-7 November 2008;

• The 2nd Annual General meeting of the Meteorological Association of Southern Africa (MASA), Ezulwini, Swaziland, 4-7 November 2008;

• The Meeting of the CAgM Expert Team on Collection and Evaluation of Operational

Agrometeorological Tools and Methodologies, Nairobi, Kenya, 21-24 November 2008;

• Basic Meteorological Instruments Course (BMIC), Nairobi, Kenya, 3 November– 4 December 2008;

• EUMETSAT Satellite Applications Course (ESAC), Nairobi, Kenya, 24 November–

5 December 2008;

• Applied Hydrodynamic Modelling Training for W Indian Ocean Region, Nairobi, Kenya, 24 November to 5 December 2008;

• Media Weather Presentation Skills (MWPS) Course, Nairobi, Kenya, October-December

2008;

• The Preparatory Meeting for the 2nd Platform Consultation and Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, 1-5 December 2008;

• Course in Applied Agricultural Met (CAAM), Nairobi, Kenya, 16 June – 4 December 2008;

• Advanced Forecasting Course (AFC), Nairobi, Kenya, 8 September– 4 December 2008;

• The Kenya Meteorological Society Annual General Meeting, Nairobi, Kenya, 10 December

2008;

• The Twenty-fifth Session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum of the UNEP, Nairobi, Kenya, 16-20 February 2009;

• The 23rd Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum (GHACOF 23), Mombasa, Kenya,

2-6 March 2009;

• The EAC Meeting of Meteorological, Aviation and Airport authorities, Arusha, Tanzania, 6-8 April 2009;

• The WMO Management Workshop for NMHSs for LDCs in Eastern and Southern Africa,

Maseru, Lesotho, 4-6 May 2009;

• The MASA Extraordinary Meeting, Swakopmund, Namibia, 10-12 May 2009;

• The Third Special Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) on Climate Change, Nairobi, Kenya, 25-27 May 2009;

• Second Africa Regional Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction Consultative Meeting, Nairobi,

Kenya, 5-7 May 2009;

• Advanced Met Technicians Course (AMTC 9), Nairobi, Kenya, June 2008-May 2010;

• Advanced Met Technicians Course (AMTC 10), Nairobi, Kenya, January 2008-December 2011;

• Weather Eye-to-Eye Media Course, Nairobi, Kenya, 27-31 October 2009

• WMO Management Workshop for NMHSs for LDCs in Eastern and Southern Africa,

Maseru, Lesotho, 3-8 May 2009;

• MASA 2009 Extraordinary Meeting, Swakopmund, Namibia, 11 May 2009;

• Twelfth Regional Climate Outlook Forum (PRESAO-12) “Seasonal Climate Prediction as a tool for Water Resources Management, Food Security and Risk Management” for Central and West African ACMAD, Niamey, Niger, 21-22 May 2009;

• Special Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) on

Climate Change, Nairobi, Kenya, 24-29 May 2009;

• Technical Validation Workshop on the Sub-Regional Action Programme on the reduction of Vulnerability of West Africa to Climate Change, Accra, Ghana, 2-4 July 2009;

• Meeting on the activities of Niamey Action Plan under the Cooperation Program WMO/AEMET for West Africa, Dakar, Senegal, 14-17 July 2009;

• Twenty-fourth Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum, Nairobi, Kenya, 24-25 August 2009;

• Thirteenth Southern Africa Climate Outlook Forum (SARCOF-13), Harare, Zimbabwe, 26-27August 2009;

• Ninth Kenya Meteorological Society International Workshop, Kisumu, Kenya, 21-24 September 2009;

• EAC Meeting of the Sectoral Council on Transport, Communications and Meteorology,

(East African Community-EAC), Arusha, Tanzania, 8-12 February 2010;

• Consultative Meeting amongst NMHSs, GHF, WMO and Fairmount on the Weather Info for All, Entebbe, Uganda, 18-19 February 2010;

• Twenty-fifth Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum, Nairobi, Kenya, 25-

26 February 2010;

• Africa Environment Day Celebration on Africa Resilience to Climate Change: Protecting Biodiversity and Enhancing Traditional Knowledge, Arusha, Tanzania, 3-4 March 2010;

• Expert Meeting on the Validation of the Regional Strategy and Action Plan to Reduce

Vulnerability to Climate Change in West Africa and the Ministerial Meeting on the Adoption of the Regional Strategy and the Action Plan, Accra, Ghana, 15-18 March 2010;

• MASA Strategic Planning Workshop, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 15-19 March 2010;

• First Conference of Ministers Responsible for Meteorology in Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, 12-16

April • 2010;

• Rwanda Strategic Plan Validation Workshop, Kigali, Rwanda, 29 April 2010;

• Twenty-sixth session of LAS Permanent Committee for Meteorology, Tripoli, Libya, 25-29 April 2010.

(4) Other RA I Events

• UN Country Team meeting, Cape Verde, 30 June 2008, • Meeting for the finalization of RAI Strategic Plan, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 25-

29 January 2010.

REGIONAL ASSOCIATION II (ASIA)

LIST OF REGIONAL EVENTS IN RA II (June 2007 – May 2011)

(1) Constituent Body Sessions and RA II Technical Conferences / Regional Seminars

• WMO Regional Seminar on Strategic Capacity Development of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) in Regional Association II (Asia), Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 3-4 December 2008

• Fourteenth session of Regional Association II (Asia), Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 5-11 December

2008 • Fifth Technical Conference on Management of Meteorological and Hydrological Services in

RA II (Asia), Daegu, Republic of Korea, 29 November - 3 December 2010 (2) RA II Subsidiary Bodies Meetings

• Meeting of the RA II Working Group on Agricultural Meteorology, Hanoi, Viet Nam, 17-19 December 2007

• Meeting of the RA II Working Group on Climate-related Matters, Tokyo, Japan, 7-8 August

2008 • First session of the RA II Management Group, Geneva, Switzerland, 10 June 2009

• Second session of the RA II Management Group, Geneva, Switzerland, 16 June 2010

• Meeting of the RA II Working Group on Hydrological Forecasts and Assessments, Seoul, 23-

26 November 2010

• Meeting of the Sub-Group on Climate Applications and Services, Working Group on Climate Services, Adaptation and Agrometeorology, Daegu, Republic of Korea, 30 November - 2 December 2010

• Meeting of the Working Group on Disaster Risk Reduction and Service Delivery, Daegu,

Republic of Korea, 1-3 December 2010

(3) Meetings, Workshops and Training Courses

• Meeting of the CBS OPAG/PWS Implementation Coordination Team (ICT), Muscat, Oman, June 2007

• Roving Seminars (six) on Weather, Climate and Farmers, Andhra Pradesh, India, 22-28 June

2007 • SIGMET Seminar for Asia/Pacific Region, Bangkok, Thailand, 11-13 July 2007

• Twenty-ninth Meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Sub-

Committee on Meteorology and Geophysics (SCMG), Manila, Philippines, 17-19 July 2007

• Seventh Typhoon Operational Forecasting Training at RSMC Tokyo - Typhoon Center, Tokyo, Japan, 18-27 July 2007

• International Training Course on "Coastal Zone Natural Disaster Prevention and Warning",

Beijing, China, 25 July-8 August 2007 • Training of two storm surge experts from Oman and Maldives (on the Implementation and

Running of a PC based High-resolution Storm Surge model) at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India, 20 August-2 September 2007

• International Training Course on "Agrometeorological Services for Sustainable Agriculture",

Beijing, China, 27 August-7 September 2007 • Symposium on Strengthening Cooperation among WMO and NMHSs, Beijing, China, 3-13

September 2007 • Typhoon Committee Roving Seminar, Manila, Philippines, 5-8 September 2007

• Implementation Coordination Meeting on the WIS and GTS in RA II, Khabarovsk, Russian

Federation, 10-12 September 2007 • Third Typhoon Committee "Integrated Workshop on Social-economic Impacts of Extreme

Typhoon-related Events", Bangkok, Thailand, 10-14 September 2007 • Fifth session of the RA II/WG-PIW, Khabarovsk, Russian Federation, 12-15 September 2007 • Expert Meeting on the Applications of Probabilistic Forecasts, Shanghai, China, 24-28

September 2007 • First JCOMM Scientific and Technical Workshop on Storm Surges, Seoul, Republic of Korea,

2-6 October 2007 • Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop on GEOSS Information Access, Beijing, China, 10-11

October 2007 • International Training Course on Weather Modification, Nanjing, China, 13 October- 11

November 2007 • Training Workshop on Climsoft, Climate Data Homogenization and Climate Change Indices,

Hanoi, Viet Nam, 12 November-7 December 2007 • Technical Seminar on Preparation of Terms of Reference for a Regional Drought Centre in

Central Asia, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 20-21 November 2007

• 40th session of the ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee, Macao, China, 21-26 November 2007

• Training Course on Automatic Weather Station Network, Hong Kong, China, 26-30 November

2007 • WMO Seminar on Climate Extremes and Indices back-to-back with a Workshop on Climate

Data Management System (CLIMSOFT), Hanoi, Viet Nam, 12 November-7 December 2007 • WMO CCl/CLIVAR/JCOMM Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices

(ETCCDI) Workshop, Hanoi, Viet Nam, 3-7 December 2007

• Workshop on the GTS Exchange of Tsunami Warnings, Related Information and other Warnings in the Indian Ocean, Bangkok, Thailand, 18-20 December 2007

• Attachment of three forecasters from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Thailand for the On-the-job on

Operational Analysis and Forecasting of Tropical Cyclone in RSMC-tropical cyclones New Delhi, India, 14-25 January 2008

• Third WCRP Reanalysis Conference, Tokyo, Japan, 28 January-1 February 2008 • Preliminary Meteorology Course (BIP-MT programme), Karachi, Pakistan, 25-28 February

2008 • CBS Expert Team on Extended and Long-range Forecasting, Beijing, China, 7-10 April 2008 • Third Typhoon Committee Working Group Meeting for Disaster Prevention and Preparedness

on Typhoon Committee Disaster Information System (TCDIS) and Future Activities, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 10-11 April, 2008

• Workshop of Advisers on External Relations and Field Study for RA II (Asia) and RA V

(South-West Pacific), Jeju, Republic of Korea, 28 April-2 May 2008 • Thirty-fifth Session of the WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclones , Manama, Bahrain, 5-9

May 2008 • Meeting of Public Weather Services Implementation Coordination Team, Shanghai, China

12-16 May 2008 • International Training Course on Agrometeorology, Nanjing, China, 19 May-17 June 2008

• Thirtieth Meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Sub-Committee on

Meteorology and Geophysics (SCMG), Singapore, 24-29 May 2008 • Second Workshop on Preparation of the Terms of Reference (ToR), Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 29-

30 May 2008 • WMO/UKMO Aviation Seminar, Muscat, Oman, 5-9 July 2008 • Eighth Typhoon Operational Forecasting Training at RSMC Tokyo - Typhoon Center, Tokyo,

Japan, 23 July-1 August 2008 • International Symposium on Climate Change and Food Security in South Asia, Dhaka,

Bangladesh, 25-30 August, 2008

• International Training Course on Satellite and Radar Meteorology, Nanjing, China, 15 September-29 October 2008

• Typhoon Committee Integrated Workshop on "Coping with Climate Change in the Typhoon

Committee Area", Beijing, China, 22-26 September 2008 • International Symposium on Climate Change and Food Security in South Asia, Dhaka,

Bangladesh, 25-30 August, 2008 • The Integrated Workshop on "Coping with Climate Change in the Typhoon Committee Area",

Beijing, China, 22-26 September 2008

• WMO Coordination and Capacity Building Workshop for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in Asia-Pacific, Port Vila, Vanuatu, 6-10 October 2008

• International Training Course on "Satellite Meteorology", Beijing, China, 8-17 October 2008 • Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) Seminar on Management for the Directors of NMHSs in

Asia and the Pacific, Tokyo, Japan, 13-17 October 2008 • Symposium on Strengthening Cooperation among WMO and NMHSs, Beijing, China, 13-23

October 2008 • International Training Course on "Weather Modification", Beijing, China, 27 October - 7

November 2008 • First Meeting of the Regional Steering Group for the Node in RA II discussing Further Steps

in Implementing the SDS-WAS, Beijing, China, 7-9 November 2008

• ASEAN-ROK Training Workshop on Aviation Meteorology, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 10-14 November 2008

• Training of two storm surge experts from Myanmar and Sri Lanka at the Indian Institute of

Technology, Delhi, India, 10-21 November 2008 • WMO VCP Training Course on the Use and Interpretation of City-specific Numerical Weather

Prediction Products, Hong Kong, China 1-5 December 2008 • Meeting of the Interim Scientific Steering Group (SSF) of the World Expo Nowcasting Service

Demonstration Project (WENS) and WENS Working Group, Shanghai, China, 15-20 December 2008

• GURME International Workshop on Air Quality Forecasting, Pune, India, 8-

12 December 2008 • Forty-first Session of the ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 19-

24 January 2009 • League of Arab States Workshop on the Role of NMHSs in Disaster Risk Reduction,

Manama, Bahrain, 16-17 February 2009, co-organized with the Bahrain Meteorological Service and UNDP Office in Bahrain

• Thirty-sixth session of the WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclones, Muscat, Oman, 2-6

March 2009 • First International Conference on Indian Ocean Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change,

Muscat, Oman, 8-11 March 2009 • Thirty-first Meeting of the ASEAN Sub-Committee on Meteorology and Geophysics (SCMG),

Bangkok, Thailand, 8-10 April 2009 • Twenty-fourth session of the Permanent Committee for Meteorology, League of the Arab

States (LAS), Alger, Algeria, 6-10 May 2009 • WMO/UKMO Aviation Seminar, Muscat, Oman, 5-9 July 2008 • International Training Course on Satellite and Radar Meteorology, Nanjing, China, 15

September-29 October 2008

• International Training Course on "Satellite Meteorology", Beijing, China, 8-17 October 2008 • International Training Course on "Weather Modification", Beijing, China, 27 October- 7

November 2008

• Attachment of forecasters from the Region to the RSMC Tokyo - Typhoon Centre, Tokyo, Japan, 23 July - 1 August 2008

• Attachment of storm surge experts from the Members of WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical

Cyclones to the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India, 10-21 November 2008 • WMO VCP Training Course on the Use and Interpretation of City-specific Numerical Weather

Prediction Products, Hong Kong, China, 1-5 December 2008 • Attachment of forecasters from the Region to the RSMC New Delhi - Tropical Cyclone Centre,

India, 9-20 February 2009 • International Training Course on Weather Modification, Beijing, China, 6-17 June 2009 • International Training Course on Multi-Hazard Early Warning, Nanjing, China, 8-26 June

2009 • Seventh International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC), Yokohama, Japan, 29 June-3

July 2009 • Attachment Training for Typhoon Forecasters from China and Malaysia, Tokyo, Japan, 22-31

July 2009 • GURME Air Quality Modeling Training Workshop, Shanghai, China, 16-18 September 2009 • Attachment Training for Storm Surge Forecasters from Bangladesh and Pakistan, New Delhi,

India, 28 September-10 October 2009 • WMO Symposium on Meteorological Service in Support of Decision-Making and Field Study,

Beijing, China, 13-22 October 2009 • IRI-WMO Workshop on the Tailoring of Seasonal Climate Forecasts: Training Experts in the

Climate Predictability Tool, Beijing, China, 19-30 October 2009 • Workshop on the Implementation of the WMO SDS-WAS Asia Node, Seoul, Republic of

Korea, 28-30 October 2009 • Regional Workshop on Improving Weather, Climate and Hydrological Service Delivery, and

Reducing Vulnerability to Disasters in Central Asia and Caucasus, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 10-12 November 2009

• WMO Workshop on Climate Monitoring Including the Implementation of Climate Watch

System in RA II with a Focus on Monsoon Affected Areas, Beijing, China, 10-13 November 2009

• Typhoon Committee Roving Seminar, Nanjing, China, 16-19 November 2009

• International Training Course on Agrometeorology, Nanjing, China, 16 November- 4

December 2009

• International Conference on Nurturing Arid Zones for People and the Environment Issues and Agenda for the 21st Century, Jodhpur, India, 24-28 November 2009

• International Training Course on Basic Operation of Weather Radar and Use of Radar

Products, Hong Kong, China, 30 November-4 December 2009 • Forty-second Session of ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee, Singapore, 25-29 January 2010 • JMA Seminar for Directors of NMHSs in Asia and the Pacific, Tokyo, Japan, 1-6 February

2010 • Workshop on Severe Weather Forecasting Demonstration Project Development in RA II,

Hanoi, Viet Nam, 2-5 February 2010 • Thirty-seventh Session of the WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclones, Phuket, Thailand,

15-19 February 2010 • Meeting of WMO Expert Team on Weather Modification Research, Abu Dhabi, 22-24 March

2010 • Sub-regional Workshop on Storm Water Management, Kuala Lumpur, 3-4 May 2010 • Study Tour and WMO Symposium on Meteorological Service Delivery and Disaster Risk

Reduction, Beijing, China, 6-15 May 2010

• Thirty-second Meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Sub-Committee on Meteorology and Geophysics (SCMG), Da Nang, Viet Nam, 10-12 May 2010

• International Training Course on Multi-hazard Early Warning, Nanjing, China, 10-28 May

2010 • Sixty-sixth Session of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

(ESCAP), Incheon, Republic of Korea, 13-19 May 2010 • JMA/WMO Workshop on Quality Management in Surface, Climate and Upper-air

Observations in RA II (Asia), Tokyo, Japan, 27-30 July 2010 • Meeting of the Commission for Basic Systems/OPAG on Public Weather Services

Implementation Coordination Team on Public Weather Services, Shanghai, China, 4-8 October 2010

• Forty-third Session of ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee, Jeju, Republic of Korea, 17-22

January 2011

• Meeting of the Coordinating Group of the RA II Pilot Project to Develop Support for NMHSs in Satellite Data, Products and Training, Tokyo, Japan, 21-23 February 2011

• Thirty-eighth Session of the WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclones, New Delhi, India, 21-

25 February 2011 (4) Other RA II Events

• Survey on the Basic Capability of National Meteorological Services (NMSs) in Regional Association II [2005-2008] (2005 and 2008)

• Survey on Progress Evaluation for the Enhancement of National Hydrological Services (NHSs) in Regional Association II [2006-2008] (2008)

• Survey on Public Weather Services (PWS) in Regional Association II (2008)

• Survey on Drought and Extreme Temperatures in Regional Association II (2008)

• Fact-finding Mission to Uzbekistan to Assess the Current Status and make

Recommendations on the Enhancement of the Hydrometeorological Services in Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 4-7 December 2007

• DPP Expert Mission related to the TCDIS Project to Lao People's Democratic Republic,

Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam, 12-19 May 2008

• Emergency Assessment Mission to Yangon, Myanmar following the Tropical Cyclone Nargis in May 2008, Yangon, Myanmar, 15-18 May 2008

• Fact-finding Mission to Myanmar, Yangon and NayPyiTaw, Myanmar, 9-13 February 2009

• Fact-finding Mission to Bhutan, Thimphu, Bhutan, 7-12 March 2010

• Fact-finding and Needs-assessment Mission to Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan, 4-8 November

2010

• Fact-finding Mission to Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, 18-25 March 2011

• Fact-finding Missions to Japan following the massive earthquake on 11 March 2011, Tokyo,

Japan, 25 and 29 March and 18-19 April 2011

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REGIONAL ASSOCIATION III (SOUTH AMERICA)

LIST OF REGIONAL EVENTS IN RA III (2007-2011)

(1) CONSTITUENT BODY SESSIONS AND RA III TECHNICAL CONFERENCES / REGIONAL SEMINARS

• Fifteenth session of Regional Association III (South America), Bogota, Colombia, 22-29 September 2010

• Technical Conference on NMHSs and Civil Protection Agencies working together for Disaster Risk Reduction, Bogota, Colombia, 20-21 September 2010

(2) RA III Subsidiary Bodies Meetings

• Working Group on Long Distance Training, Lima, Peru, 1-3 July 2008

• Sixth Meeting of the Conference of Directors of the Ibero-american countries, Panama City, Panama, 27-29 November 2008

• WG on Internal Matters of RA III, Caracas, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, 26-27

October 2009

• Seventh Meeting of the Conference of Directors of the Ibero-american countries, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 26-28 November 2009

• Tenth Session of the RA III WG on Hydrology and Water Resources, Santiago, Chile, 1-4

March 2010

• Eleventh Session of the Working Group on Hydrology and Water Resources in RA III, Santiago de Chile, Chile, 22-25 March 2010.

• Fifth Session of the Working Group on the Planning and Implementation of the WWW in

RA III, Asuncion, Paraguay, 19-23 April 2010

• Joint meeting RA III – RA IV Management Group, Geneva, Switzerland, 14 June 2010

• Eight Meeting of the Conference of Directors of the Ibero-american countries, Santiago de Chile, Chile, 17-19 November 2010

• Meeting of the Conference of Directors of the Ibero-american countries, San Jose, Costa

Rica, 5 March 2011

(3) MEETINGS, WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING COURSES • Training course on Integrated Flood Management, Cochabamba, Pluri-national State of

Bolivia, 3-7 March 2008 • Training Course on Climate Change Scenarios and Seminar on Climate Change in Ibero-

america, Bogota, Colombia, 31 March – 4 April 2008

• Training Course on the Evaluation of Methods of Socio-Economic Benefits and

Hydrometeorological Information of NMHSs, Lima, Peru, 31 March – 4 April 2008 • Workshop on Monitoring, Prediction and Early Warning of Meteorological Events, Curitiba,

Brazil, 16-18 April 2008 • Forum on Evaluation of Methods of Socio-Economic Benefits of Hydrometeorological

Information and Meeting of the Dirección Meteorológica of Chile with users, Santiago de Chile, Chile, 2-5 June 2008

• Roving Seminar on Operation and Maintenance of Automatic Meteorological and

Hydrometric Stations, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 21 July - 1 August 2008, and Montevideo, Uruguay, 4-8 August 2008

• Workshop for Instructors on Integrated Flood Management, Lima, Peru, 6-10 October 2008 • Ibero-american Seminar on Seasonal Prediction, Guayaquil, Ecuador, 21-23 October 2008 • Meeting on the Use and Interpretation of Products, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 24-28

November 2008 • Meeting on the Extension of the Virtual Centre for RA III, Fortaleza, Brazil, 2-4 March 2009 • Meeting on Meteorological Communications, Brasilia, Brazil, 2-6 March 2009 • Training Course on Operation and Maintenance of Automatic Meteorological and

Hydrometric Stations, Bogotá, Colombia, 11-22 May 2009 • Training course on Integrated Flood Management, Salto, Uruguay, 29 June – 3 July 2009 • Course on Management of Climate Data, Lima, Peru, 17-21 August 2009 • Training Course on the Use, Installation and Maintenance of Hydrometeorological

Automatic Stations, Santiago de Chile, Chile, 5-16 October 2009 • Ibero-american Seminar on Seasonal Prediction, Guayaquil, Ecuador, 16-20 November

2009 • Training Course on Operation and Maintenance of Automatic Meteorological and

Hydrometric Stations, Caracas, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, 16-27 November 2009 • Meeting on Climate Change Scenarios, Caracas, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, 23-25

November 2009 • Meeting on Hydrometeorological Forecasting and Urban Floods – PROHIMET, San

Salvador, El Salvador, 30 November-4 December 2009 • Regional Workshop for the Integration of Seasonal Forecasts and Hydrological Information

for Water-related Sectors in the Western Coast of South America. Guayaquil, Ecuador, 25- 28 January 2010

• Meeting on Meteorological Support to Air Navigation, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Pluri-

national State of Bolivia, 12-16 April 2010 • Training course on Integrated Flood Management, Santa Fe, Argentina, 26-30 April 2010

• Meeting on Means of Communications between the Ibero-american NMHSs, San Jose, Costa Rica, 31 May-4 June 2010

• Meeting on Climate Services, Mexico DF, Mexico, 5-6 July 2010 • Conference of Water for the Ibero-american Directors, Mexico DF, Mexico, 7-9 July 2010 • Meeting on Regional Hydrometeorological Information Systems – PROHIMET, San Jose,

Costa Rica, 19-23 July 2010 • Meeting on the Use and Interpretation of Products, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 6-17

September 2010

(4) Other RA III Events

• Installation of the MCH database, Montevideo, Uruguay, 20-31 July 2009

REGIONAL ASSOCIATION IV (NORTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN)

LIST OF REGIONAL EVENTS IN RA IV

(2008-2011) (1) CONSTITUENT BODY SESSIONS AND RA IV TECHNICAL CONFERENCES / REGIONAL SEMINARS

• Fifteenth session of Regional Association IV (North America, Central America and the Caribbean), Nassau, Bahamas, 24 April to 1 May 2009

(2) RA IV SUBSIDIARY BODY MEETINGS • Sixth Meeting of the Conference of Directors of the Iberoamerican countries, Panama City,

Panama, 27-29 November 2008 • Seventh Meeting of the Conference of Directors of the Iberoamerican countries, Santo

Domingo, Dominican Republic, 26-28 November 2009

• RA IV Hurricane Committee, Thirty-first Session, Nassau, Bahamas, April 2009

• WG on Internal Matters of RA III, Caracas, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, 26-27 October 2009

• RA IV Hurricane Committee, Thirty-second Session, Hamilton, Bermuda, 8-12 March 2010 • Joint meeting RA III – RA IV Management Group, Geneva, Switzerland, 14 June 2010

• Eight Meeting of the Conference of Directors of the Iberoamerican countries, Santiago de

Chile, Chile, 17-19 November 2010

• RA IV Meeting on Experts in Hydrology, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 6-10 December 2010

• Meeting of the Conference of Directors of the Iberoamerican countries, San Jose, Costa

Rica, 5 March 2011

• RA IV Hurricane Committee, Thirty-third session, George Town, Cayman Islands, 8-12 March 2011

(3) MEETINGS, WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING COURSES

• Training Course on Climate Change Scenarios and Seminar on Climate Change in Iberoamerica, Bogota, Colombia, 31 March – 4 April 2008

• Joint WMO/AEMET mission to discuss an Early Warning System Project Proposal, Haiti

and Dominican Republic, 31 March-4 April 2008 • Seminar on Climate Change in Iberoamerica, Bogota, Colombia, 3-4 April 2008 • Advanced CLIDATA Training for Countries in the Caribbean with the CLIDATA system,

CIMH, Barbados, 19-30 May 2008

• Training Course on the Operation of the EUMETCast Stations, Mexico DF, Mexico, 9-13 June 2008

• Seminar on the relation between means of communication and the NMHSs, Santo

Domingo, Dominican Republic, 11-13 June 2008

• International Workshop on Advances in Operational Weather Systems for Fire Danger Rating, Edmonton, Canada, 14-16 July 2008

• Meeting on National GEO, San Salvador, El Salvador, 24 July 2008 • Workshop on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation to Agriculture, Forestry and

Fisheries at the National and Regional Levels, Orlando, Florida, United States of America, 18-21 November 2008

• Meeting on the Use and Interpretation of Products, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 24-28

November 2008 • RA IV Workshops on Hurricane Forecasting and Public Weather Services, Miami, Florida,

United States of America, 23 March-3 April 2008 • RA IV Workshop on Hurricane Forecasting and Warnings and PWS, Miami, Florida, United

States of America, 16-21 April 2008 • Meeting on the Panama Action Plan, Panama City, Panama, 16-20 March 2009 • Training Course on Operation and Maintenance of Automatic Meteorological and

Hydrometric Stations, Bogotá, Colombia, 11-22 May 2009 • Meeting on the Use and Interpretation of Products, Antigua, Guatemala, 16-25 September

2009 • Seminar on the Development of Applications for the Visualization of Meteorological

Information, San Jose, Costa Rica, 28 September – 9 October 2009 • Training Course on Operation and Maintenance of Automatic Meteorological and

Hydrometric Stations, Caracas, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, 16-27 November 2009 • Meeting on Climate Change Scenarios, Caracas, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, 23-25

November 2009 • Meeting on Hydrometeorological Forecasting and Urban Floods – PROHIMET, San

Salvador, El Salvador, 30 November-4 December 2009 • Meeting on Means of Communications between the Iberoamerican NMHSs, San Jose,

Costa Rica, 31 May-4 June 2010 • Meeting on Climate Services, Mexico DF, Mexico, 5-6 July 2010 • Conference of Water for the Iberoamerican Directors, Mexico DF, Mexico, 7-9 July 2010 • Meeting on Regional Hydrometeorological Information Systems – PROHIMET, San Jose,

Costa Rica, 19-23 July 2010 • Training Course on the Use, Installation and Maintenance of Hydrometeorological

Automatic Stations, San Jose, Costa Rica, 19-30 July 2010 • Technical Conference on NMHSs and Civil Protection Agencies working together for

Disaster Risk Reduction, Bogota, Colombia, 20-21 September 2010 • VI Technical Conference on Meteorological Management Services in RA III and RA IV, San

Jose, Costa Rica, 3-4 March 2011

(4) OTHER RA IV EVENTS

• Mission to submit the final project proposals and to discuss with the national counterparts

authorities the implementation of the CLIBER Project, Panama City, Panama, 20-21 October 2008

• Mission to submit the final project proposals and to discuss with the national counterparts

authorities the implementation of the CLIBER Project, San Salvador, El Salvador, 27-28 October 2008

• GCOS Action Plan Meeting, Belize City, Belize, 28-30 January 2008

• WMO/UNFCCC Expert Meeting, Mexico D.F., Mexico, 4-7 March 2008

• Third Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and other

Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions, Panama City, Panama, 12-14 March 2008

• The Second Planning Meeting for Central American Project on Multi-Hazard Early Warning

System, Orlando, Florida, United States of America, 22 April 2008

• CCl Expert Team on Research needs for Intraseasonal, Seasonal and Interannual Prediction including application of those predictions, NOAA HQ, Silver Spring, United States of America, 23-26 September 2008

REGIONAL ASSOCIATION V (SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC)

LIST OF REGIONAL EVENTS IN RA V (June 2007 – May 2011)

(1) Constituent Body Sessions and RA V Technical Conferences / Regional Seminars

• Fifth Technical Conference on Management of Meteorological and Hydrological Services in RA V, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 20-24 April 2009

• Fifteenth Session of RA V, Bali, Indonesia, 30 April - 6 May 2010

(2) RA V Subsidiary Bodies Meetings

• Second Session of RA V Management Group (MG-2), Geneva, Switzerland, 23 June 2008 • Twelfth Session of RA V Tropical Cyclone Committee for the South Pacific and South-East

Indian Ocean, Alofi, Niue, 11-17 July 2008 • Extraordinary Session of RA V Management Group (MG-Ext), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 24

April 2009 • Third Session of RA V Management Group (MG-3), Geneva, Switzerland, 5 and 12 June

2009 • Session of RA V Sub-Group on Regional Aspects of Information Systems and Services (ISS)

and Global Telecommunication System (GTS), Hawaii, USA, 2-5 December 2009 • Fifth Session of the Working Group on the Planning and Implementation of the World

Weather Watch (WWW) in RA V, Hawaii, USA, 7-10 December 2009 • Seventh Session of RA V Working Group on Hydrology, Bandung, Indonesia, 14-18

December 2009 • Eighth Session of RA V Working Group on Climate-Related Matters, Nadi, Fiji, 8-11 February

2010 • Thirteenth Session of RA V Tropical Cyclone Committee for the South Pacific and South-East

Indian Ocean, Bali, Indonesia, 26-29 April 2010

• Fourth Session of RA V Management Group (MG-4), Geneva, Switzerland, 10 June 2010

• Fifth Session of RA V Management Group (MG-5), Citeko, Indonesia, 20-22 September 2010 (3) Other Meetings, Workshops and Training Courses

• National and Regional Training Workshops for Pacific Islands under the Pacific Islands Climate Prediction Project (PI-CPP): Enhanced Application of Climate Prediction in Pacific Islands Countries (funded by AusAid and implemented by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology), 2007 - 2009

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS) Pacific International Training Desk, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2007–May 2010

• Pacific Communication Steering Committee (PCSC) Meeting (co-organized by National

Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS) and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)/Pacific Islands Global Climate Observing Systems (PI-GCOS)), Rarotonga, Cook Islands, 29-30 June 2007

• Twelfth Regional Meeting of Meteorological Service Directors (12RMSD) in the Pacific (co-

organized with the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)), Rarotonga, Cook Islands, 30 June - 6 July 2007

• World Health Organization (WHO) Workshop on Climate Change and Health in South-East

and East Asian Countries, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2-5 July 2007 • Twenty-ninth Meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Sub-

Committee on Meteorology and Geophysics (SCMG), Manila, Philippines, 17-19 July 2007 • WMO Training Workshop on Nowcasting, Cairns, Australia, 1-4 August 2007 • First World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Coordinated Energy and Water Cycle

Observations Project (CEOP) Annual Meeting, Bali, Indonesia, 6-8 September 2007 • Seventh Southern Hemisphere Training Workshop on Public Weather Services (PWS) and

Tropical Cyclones, Melbourne, Australia, 10-21 September 2007 • Regional Training Course on Operational Weather Forecasting for the Pacific Islands (co-

organized by the Government of Fiji and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)), Nadi, Fiji, 10 September – 5 October 2007

• Eighteenth Meeting of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

(SPREP) Officials, Apia, Samoa, 11-14 September 2007 • Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)-World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)

and IGBP (International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme) Workshop “Learning from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4)”, Sydney, Australia, 4-6 October 2007

• International Training Course on Marine Meteorology for the South Pacific National

Meteorological Services (NMSs) (co-organized with Météo-France), Tahiti, French Polynesia, 8-12 October 2007

• Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) Sixteenth Smaller Island States (SIS) Leaders’

Summit, Nuku’alofa, Tonga, 15 October 2007 • Tenth International Workshop on Wave Hindcasting and Forecasting and First Coastal

Hazard Symposium, Hawaii, USA, 11-16 November 2007 • Pacific Communication Steering Committee (PCSC) Meeting (co-organized by National

Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS) and Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)/Pacific Islands Global Climate Observing System (PI-GCOS)), Melbourne, Australia, 12-15 November 2007

• National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) Technicians Training (co-

organized by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, MetService New Zealand Ltd, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS) and USA

Global Climate Observing System (USA GCOS), and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)/Pacific Islands Global Climate Observing System (PI-GCOS)), Melbourne, Australia, 12-20 November 2007

• Attachment Training on Operational Tropical Cyclone Forecasting, Nadi, Fiji, 3-13 December

2007 • Technical Working Group (TWG) Meeting: Review of Meteorological Services in the Pacific

Region, Suva, Fiji, 11 February 2008 • Technical Evaluation Meeting for the Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Low-Rate

Information Transmission (LRIT) Project (with the WMO Voluntary Cooperation Programme (VCP) assistance by the USA)), Apia, Samoa, 4-7 March 2008

• Sixty-fourth Session of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

(ESCAP), Bangkok, Thailand, 24-30 April 2008 • Pacific Regional Workshop on Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty Organization

(CTBTO) International Cooperation, Apia, Samoa, 8-9 May 2008 • Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR)/Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)

Indian Ocean Panel Meeting - Fifth Session, Bali, Indonesia, 12-14 May 2008 • Thirtieth Meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Sub-Committee on

Meteorology and Geophysics (SCMG), Singapore, 24-29 May 2008 • Workshop on Global Environment Facility (GEF) Programme on Sustainable Integrated

Water Resources and Wastewater Management (IWRM), European Union (EU) Water Facility Programme and Pacific Hydrological Observing System (Pacific-HYCOS) (co-organized with the Secretariat of the Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC), Alofi, Niue, 18-22 July 2008

• Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) Seventeenth Smaller Island States (SIS) Leaders’

Summit, Alofi, Niue, 25 July 2008 • Thirty-ninth Pacific Islands Forum, Alofi, Niue, 19-20 August 2008 • Nineteenth Meeting of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

(SPREP) Officials, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, 4-12 September 2008 • WMO Coordination and Capacity Building Workshop for Least Developed Countries (LDCs)

in Asia-Pacific, Port Vila, Vanuatu, 6-10 October 2008 • Regional Training Course in Aviation Meteorology for the Pacific Islands National

Meteorological Services (NMSs), (co-organized with Météo-France), Noumea, New Caledonia, 20-24 October 2008

• Eleventh Session of the Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay (AMDAR) Panel Meeting and Fifth

AMDAR Science and Technology Workshop, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, 17-21 November 2008 • Fifth Tropical Cyclone Programme (TCP) and WMO/IOC Joint Commission for

Oceanographic and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM) Workshop on Storm Surge and Wave Forecasting, Melbourne, Australia, 1-5 December 2008

• Seventh Session of World Meteorological Organization/Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (WMO/IOC) Joint Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM) Management Committee, Melbourne, Australia, 8–12 December 2008

• First Meeting of the Storm Surge Scheme Action Team for Regional Association V (South-

West Pacific), Melbourne, Australia, 15-16 December 2008 • Forty-first Session of ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee, Chian Mai, Thailand, 19-24 January

2009 • World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Climate Variability and Predictability

(CLIVAR)/Climate and Cryosphere Project (CliC) Southern Ocean Panel Meeting, Sydney, Australia, 16-18 February 2009

• Regional Training Course on Climate Prediction and Applications (co-organized by the

Government of Fiji and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)), Nadi, Fiji, 16-20 February 2009

• Regional Training Workshop on Integrated Flood Management (IFM), Jakarta, Indonesia, 24-

28 February 2009 • Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) Pacific Panel Meeting - Fifth Session, Perth,

Australia, 27-28 March 2009 • Thirty-first Meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Sub-Committee

on Meteorology and Geophysics (SCMG), Bangkok, Thailand, 8-10 April 2009 • Meeting of the Severe Weather Forecasting and Disaster Risk Reduction Demonstration

Project (SWFDDP) for the planning of the Regional Subproject in WMO RA V, Wellington, New Zealand, 21-24 April 2009

• Sixty-fifth Session of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

(ESCAP), Bangkok, Thailand, 23-29 April 2009 • Thirteenth Regional Meeting of Meteorological Service Directors (13RMSD) in the Pacific (co-

organized with the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)), Nadi, Fiji, 5-8 May 2009

• First Joint Meeting of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

(SPREP) Regional Meeting of Meteorological Service Directors (RMSD) and the Secretariat of the Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC) Disaster Reduction and Risk Management and Partnership (co-organized with SPREP and SOPAC), Nadi, Fiji, 10 May 2009

• International Workshop on Content, Communication and Use of Agrometeorological Products

and Services for Sustainable Agriculture, Toowoomba, Australia, 18-21 May 2009 • Open Programme Area Group (OPAG)/Public Weather Services (PWS) Meeting - Expert

Team on PWS in Support of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DPM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 25-29 May 2009

• Third World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Coordinated Energy and Water Cycle

Observations Project (CEOP) Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Australia, 19-21 August 2009 • Sixth International Scientific Conference on the World Climate Research Programme

(WCRP) Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment and Second iLEAPS (the land-

atmosphere core project of IGBP) Science Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 24-28 August 2009

• First Training Workshop on Implementation of Quality Management System (QMS) for

Aviation Weather Services (co-organized by Finland Meteorological Institute (FMI) and Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) through Finland/SPREP Pacific Project), Apia, Samoa, 14–18 September 2009

• Eighth Southern Hemisphere Training Course on Tropical Cyclones and Public Weather

Services, Melbourne, Australia, 29 September – 9 October 2009 • Eighth Training Course on Public Weather Services, Melbourne, Australia, 12-16 October

2009 • Training Workshop on Severe Weather Situations for Forecasters from Pacific Islands

National Meteorological Services (NMSs) (co-organized with Metéo-France), Tahiti, French Polynesia, 13-21 October 2009

• Twentieth Meeting of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

(SPREP) Officials, Apia, Samoa, 17–20 November 2009 • Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) Workshop XXXII - Mitigation and

Management of Disasters through Communications, Hawaii, USA, 30 November 2009 • Attachment Training on Operational Tropical Cyclone Forecasting, Nadi, Fiji, 23 November –

4 December 2009 • Joint DiDaH and WMO-CCl/CLIVAR/JCOMM Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and

Indices (ETCCDI) Workshop on Exploring Changes in Temperature and Precipitation Extreme Indices for Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines, Bogor, Indonesia, 7-11 December 2009

• Training Workshop on Low Flow Estimation and Prediction, Bandung, Indonesia, 18

December 2009 • Forty-second Session of ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee, Singapore, 25-29 January 2010 • Training Workshop on Communicating with Users of Meteorological Services, Nadi, Fiji, 1-5

February 2010 • Third Session of the WMO/IOC Joint Commission for Oceanographic and Marine

Meteorology (JCOMM) Expert Team on Marine Climatology (ETMC), Melbourne, Australia, 8-12 February 2010

• Commission for Hydrology (CHy) Advisory Working Group - Second Session, Brisbane,

Australia, 19-23 April 2010

• Thirty-second Meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Sub-Committee on Meteorology and Geophysics (SCMG), Da Nang, Viet Nam, 10-12 May 2010

• Twenty-first SPREP Officials Meeting, Madang, Papua New Guinea, 6-10 September 2010 • Pacific Environment Ministers Meeting, Madang, Papua New Guinea, 10 September 2010

• Eleventh WMO Symposium on Education and Training, Citeko, Indonesia, 25-29 October

2010

• Pacific Climate Change Round Table (PCCR), Alofi, Niue, 14-18 March 2011 • Third Regional Workshop on Quality Management System (QMS) of NMSs in the Pacific,

Nadi, Fiji, 1-5 April 2011 • Planning Workshop for the Australian Climate and Ocean Programs in the Pacific, Port Vila,

Vanuatu, 11-15 April 2011 • Training Workshop on the Pacific Subregional UN Development Assistance Framework

(UNDAF) 2013-2017 Roll-Out Process. Nadi, Fiji, 2-5 May 2011 • Joint UN Country Teams Fiji and Samoa Retreat. Nadi, Fiji, 6 May 2011

(4) Other RA V Events

• Fact-finding Mission to Fiji, Nadi and Suva, Fiji, 9-13 July 2007

• WMO Membership and Fact-finding Missions to Palau and Marshall Islands, Koror, Palau, 16-17 November 2009 and Majuro, Marshall Islands, 19-20 November 2009

• WMO Membership and Fact-finding Missions to Tuvalu, Funafuti, Tuvalu, 26-28 April 2011

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REGIONAL ASSOCIATION VI (EUROPE)

LIST OF REGIONAL EVENTS IN RA VI (June 2007 – May 2011)

(1) Constituent Body Sessions and RA VI Technical Conferences / Regional Seminars

• WMO Regional Conference on the Implementation of the RA VI Strategic Plan,

Brussels, Belgium, 16-17 September 2009;

• Fifteenth Session of Regional Association VI (Europe), Brussels, Belgium, 18-24 September 2009;

(2) RA VI Subsidiary Bodies Meetings

• 2nd Meeting of the RA VI Management Group (MG), Madrid, Spain, 20 March 2007;

• Meeting of the Sub-group on Regional Aspects of PWS in RA VI, Langen, Germany,

August 2007; • 4th Meeting of the RA VI Network of International Advisors and Focal Points (INTAD-

6), St Gallen, Switzerland, 29 October 2007; • 1st Meeting of the RA VI WG on Natural Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, March

2008, Helsinki, Finland; • 3rd Meeting of the RA VI Management Group, Geneva, Switzerland, 24 June 2008; • Sixth Session of the Working Group on Planning and Implementation of the WWW

in Region VI (Europe), Toulouse (France), 15-19 September 2008; • Meeting of the RA VI Working Group on Climate-related matters, Bucharest,

Romania, 3-6 November 2008; • Meeting of the RA VI Task Team on Strategic Planning, Prague, Czech Republic,

25-26 November 2008; • 4th meeting of the RA VI MG, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 22 March 2009; • Eleventh Session of the RA VI Working Group on Hydrology, Toulouse, France, 25-

27 March 2009; • 5th Meeting of RA VI MG, Geneva, Switzerland, 8 June 2009; • Meeting of the RA VI Working Group on Agricultural Meteorology, Vienna, Austria,

24 June 2009; • 2nd Meeting of the (new) RA VI MG, Geneva, 17-18 February 2010; • Meeting of the RA VI Task Team on Strategic and Action Plan, Geneva, Switzerland,

18-19 October 2010; • First Session of the RMDCN Task Team, Prague, Czech Republic, 20 - 21 May

2010; • 3rd Meeting of RA VI MG, Geneva, Switzerland, 15 June 2010;

• 1st meeting of the RA VI Working Group of Service Delivery and Partnership,

Offenbach, Germany, 6 - 8 September 2010; • 22nd Session of the Inter-governmental Council on Hydrometeorology of the

Commonwealth of the Independent States (ICH/CIS), 5-6 October 2010, Baku, Azerbaijan;

• 1st Meeting of the RA VI Working Group of Technology Development and

Implementation, Offenbach, Germany, 27 - 28 October 2010; • 1st Meeting of RA VI Task Team on WIS implementation, Offenbach, Germany, 28-

29 October 2010; • 1st Meeting of the Working Group of Climate and Hydrology, Offenbach, Germany,

29 - 30 October 2010; • 4th Meeting of RA VI MG, Geneva, Switzerland, 2-3 March 2011;

(3) Meetings, Workshops and Training Courses

• Workshop on Flash Flood Management in Europe, Krakow, Poland, October 2007; • Technical Conference on RA VI Action Plan, St Gallen, Switzerland, 29-30 October

2007; • First International Steering Committee meeting of the Drought Management Centre

for South-East Europe (DMCSEE), Bled, Slovenia, March 2008; • Workshop for WMO Information and Public Affairs Focal Points of RA VI, Warsaw,

Poland, May 2008; • First Southeast European Climate Outlook Forum, Zagreb, Croatia, June 2008. • Workshop “CLIPS in Polar Regions: Climate Product Generation, User Liaison and

Training”, Russian Federation, September 2008;

• RA VI Technical Conference “Role of the NMHSs in the prevention and mitigation of the natural hazards impact”, Republic of Moldova, October 2008;

• Technical Conference on Meteorological Instruments and Methods of Observations;

Exhibition of Meteorological Instruments, Related Equipment, and Services, Russian Federation, November 2008;

• Partners Workshop for the development of the concept of a Helpdesk for Integrated

Flood Management, Geneva, November 2008; • 8th WHYCOS International Advisory Group Meeting, Geneva, February 2009; • Training Course for East European Trainers on Climate and Water Affairs, the

former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, April 2009. • Targeted Training Activity: Predictability of Weather and Climate (Theory and

Applications to Intra-seasonal Variability) and South Asian Climate Outlook Forum (co-sponsored), Trieste, Italy, 27 July - 7 August 2009;

• CLIDATA FORUM 2009, Prague, Czech Republic, 8 -11 September 2009; • CBS Expert Team on Ensemble Prediction Systems, Exeter, United Kingdom,

28 September-2 October 2009; • WMO - Met Office Aviation Seminar 2009, Alanya, Turkey, 28 September - 2

October 2009; • Twenty-fifth Session of the Data Buoy Cooperation Panel and Twenty-ninth Session

of the Argos Joint Tariff Agreement, Paris, France, 28 September - 3 October 2009; • Training Workshop on Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems with focus on

Institutional Coordination and Cooperation, Pula, Croatia, 1 - 3 October 2009; • Seminar on Curriculum Development in Aeronautical Meteorology, Alanya, Turkey,

5 - 9 October 2009; • ECMWF Training Course for WMO Members (co-sponsored), Reading, United

Kingdom, 12 -16 October 2009; • Second Meeting of Joint Steering Group for the IODE Ocean Data Portal and the

WIGOS Pilot Project for JCOMM, Ostend, Belgium, 15 -16 October 2009; • Training Course on Agrometeorology, Alanya, Turkey, 19 - 23 October 2009; • Second South-East European Climate Outlook Forum, Budapest, Hungary, 23 -

27 November 2009; • Technical Conference on Changing Climate and Demands for Climate Services for

Sustainable Development, Antalya, Turkey, 16 -18 February 2010; • Fifteenth Session of the Commission for Climatology, Antalya, Turkey, 19 -

24 February 2010; • MSG MetOp Applications and Nowcasting, Alanya, Turkey, 15 - 19 March 2010; • Training Course on Upper Air Observing Systems, Istanbul, Turkey, 12 - 16 April

2010; • Metrology Training Workshop for South-Eastern Europe NMHSs, Ljubljana,

Slovenia, 10 - 14 May 2010; • Training Course on Weather Radars, Istanbul, Turkey, 12 -16 May 2010; • Regional Training Seminar for National Trainers of RA VI, Sibiu, Romania, 17 -

28 May 2010; • Advanced International Workshop on Operation of Meteorological and

Agrometeorological Station Networks - Conventional and Automatic, RTC Bet Dagan, Israel, 1 - 15 June 2010;

• International Polar Year Oslo Science Conference, Oslo, Norway, 8 - 12 June 2010;

• Training on Meteoalarm system, Salzburg, Austria, 30 Jun - 1 Jul 2010;

• Training workshop on drought risk assessment for the agricultural sector, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 20 - 24 Sep 2010;

• Training workshop on flood risk assessment, Istanbul, Turkey, 27 Sep - 1 Oct 2010;

• Workshop on Disaster Risks: Learning from Floods Examples, Hincesti, Moldova, 11 October 2010;

• Data Access for Western Balkans and Eastern Europe (DAWBEE) - Training

workshop on the use of DAWBEE Stations - a joint initiative of EUMETSAT and WMO (supported by the DRR/SEE project), EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany, 18 - 22 Oct 2010;

• Fourth South-East European Climate Outlook Forum, Belgrade, Serbia, November 2010;

• Regional Meeting for Strengthening Regional Cooperation in Meteorology,

Hydrology and Climate Services for Disaster Risk Management, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 28 - 29 Mar 2011;

• DRR/SEE Project Wrap-up Meeting, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 29 - 30 Mar 2011;

• EUMETSAT Workshop for Western Balkan, Eastern European and Caucasian countries, Skopje, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 6 - 7 April 2011.

(4) Other Events in RAVI

• The WB/UNISDR/WMO meeting on SEE Hydromet initiative, Zagreb, Croatia,

November 2007;

• WMO Fact-finding Mission to Belarus, Minsk, 22-25 April 2008; • CAREC/WB/ISDR/WMO study on cost-effectiveness of NMHSs in Central Asia and

Caucasus, March – April 2009;

• DRR/SEE Project Review Meeting with Directorate General Enlargement, European Commission, 11 – 12 February 2010

• WMO Fact-finding Mission to Albania, Tirana, 29 June-2 July 2010