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Year 2011, Issue 03
September 2011
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Dear Reader

Summer has ended and autumn is now proceeding rapidly with ongoing and upcoming courses. Especially aviation forecasters will have an opportunity to join  the "Forecasters meet Aviation Users" online course in November. The registration for this course will be open until 12 October. In this letter you find information about the most recent and forthcoming activities.

The Eumetcal Team
Eumetcal Course FORECASTERS MEET AVIATION USERS

The Eumetcal Aviation Weather Course "FORECASTERS MEET AVIATION USERS" will take place in November-December 2011. This introductory course will offer training in a yet unexplored but very important topic in aviation meteorology: COMMUNICATION with aviation users. This topic addresses one of the five top competencies for aeronautical forecasters defined by WMO. The course main goal is to improve the skills of aviation forecasters in communicating and understanding the needs of aviation users. Eumetcal will sponsor up to 4 participants from each member organization.

The registration is open until 12 October and there are still seats available. More information you can find HERE.
Eumetcal/EUMeTrain Satellite Course Module III

EUMeTrain and Eumetcal are organizing a satellite course "Mesoscale and Synoptic Analysis of Satellite Images" that will take place in October-December. This course has 25 participants and the first online lecture will take place on October 4.

The course will end with a classroom phase in Langen, Germany from 5 to 9 December 2011.

The course is designed for operational forecasters and meets the competencies written down by WMO. The course is supported by EUMETSAT.

More information can be found at: http://eumetrain.org/courses/synoptic_mesoscale.html

Eumetcal VII Workshop 5 - 9 March 2012

The next Eumetcal training workshop will be held in Exeter, UK, on a kind invitation by UK Met Office. The workshop will take place 5-9 March 2012. Friday 9 March is reserved for steering group and other meetings.

The objectives of this workshop are to improve the skills of Eumetcal national trainers and to improve the training interaction and cooperation within Eumetcal.

In this workshop we will particularly focus on assisting the trainers to improve their training skills through various learning sessions and practical exercises. This event will be an ideal opportunity for participants to network with the other trainers and subject matter experts and to be involved in establishing the new thematic Working Groups for the next Eumetcal Programme phase, beginning 2013.

Eumetcal VII workshop will be the main event for Eumetcal trainers in 2012. UK Met Office offers a fantastic venue for an inspiring workshop. We hope to see many of you in Exeter in March 2012!

Some financial support for participants coming from Eumetcal member institutes will be available.
Eumetcal Moodle 2.0 tutorial
This Moodle 2.0 tutorial will be part of the Eumetcal E-learning tutorials 2011. It will also be an introductory session for the EUMETSAT Moodle course participants. The online tutorial will take place on 9 November at 12 UTC.
EMS/Eumetcal course in High Impact Weather
EMS/Eumetcal course with the title "Tools for Forecasting High Impact Weather"  was held in Berlin, 11 September and got a lot of interest, and the course became fully booked by registration deadline.
This course had all together 24 participants.
The next issue will come out in January. The deadline for articles for newsletter 04/11 is 15 December 2011. Email your news, stories and articles to Lisa Haga

Thank you for reading,

Lisa Haga
Vesa Nietosvaara