WORK SPACE for the AOC-ST2 "Forecasting sub-group"

1. Sub-group Organization - Contact
2. Conference Calls Minutes     See Minutes of the last AMMA Workshop in Toulouse
3. Capacity Building
   
4. Forecasting Forms  Status: 10 forms/20 are set up
5. Dry Run exercise: 22 August to 2 September 2005
6. Some web site proposing products for forecasting/monitoring the WAM
• http://www.marocmeteo.ma/spn for NORAF LAM model (29 km resolution) from Maroccan Met Service
• http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/african_desk/eta_fcst/wafrica/index.html for NCEP/ETA model forecasts
• http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/african_desk/index.html
• http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/hurricane/
• http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/fews/africa/index.html
• http://www.atmos.albany.edu/student/gareth/plots.html Some WAM diagnostics proposed by Gareth at SUNY
7. Meetings:  

• Leeds (July 2005) Forecasting Group presentation by JP Lafore + A 36-point action plan for TT8

• THORPEX Meeting in Cape Town (13-17 February): AMMA presentation prepared by Chris Thorncroft, Sarah Jones and J Philippe Lafore. Presented by Jean Pailleux + Abstract
• International AMMA workshop  "SOP debriefing" (6-10 Nov 2006): See presentations of forecasting activities: Zilore, Lafore, Osika, Hama         
• Second THORPEX International Science Symposium (STISS)    4-8 December 2006, Landshut, Bavaria, Germany  2 posters/extended abstracts concerning the forecast during the SOP 2006       
• Lafore et al. on WASA/F
• Nuret et al. on NWP evaluation