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What are WMO RCCs?
WMO Regional Climate Centers (RCCs) are centres of excellence that create regional products including long-range forecasts that support regional and national climate activities, and thereby strengthen the capacity of WMO Members in a given region to deliver better climate services to national users.
Mandatory RCC Functions
WMO RCCs perform the following set of mandatory functions covering the domains of long-range forecasting (LRF), climate monitoring, data services and training.
Operational Activities for Long-range Forecasting
Interpret and assess relevant LRF products from GPCs, distribute relevant information to RCC Users, and provide feedback to GPCs.
Generate regional and sub-regional tailored products, relevant to RCC user needs, including seasonal outlooks etc.
Perform verification of RCC quantitative LRF products, including the exchange of basic forecast and hindcast data.
Generate consensus statement on regional or sub-regional forecasts.
Operational Activities for Climate Monitoring
Perform climate diagnostics including analysis of climate variability and extremes, at regional and sub-regional scales.
Establish a historical reference climatology for the region and/or sub-regions.
Implement a regional climate watch.
Operational Data Services, to support operational LRF and climate monitoring
Develop quality controlled regional climate datasets, gridded where applicable.
Provide climate database and archiving services.
Training in the use of operational RCC products and services
Provide information on methodologies and product specifications for mandatory RCC products, and provide guidance on their use.
Coordinate training for RCC Users in interpretation and use of mandatory RCC products.
ABOUT NCC
National Climate Centre (NCC), Pune which was established in 1995 by India Meteorological Department (IMD) with an objective to provide various climate related services to the country (India). NCC has been carrying out many India specific climate related activities like Climate Monitoring and Analysis, Climate Data Management, Climate Research and Climate Prediction (Seasonal Forecasts). NCC is bringing out climate diagnostic bulletins regularly and different climate data products are prepared for the user community. Operational Seasonal forecast for rainfall over the country is another important activity of the NCC.
From May 2013, NCC has started to work as WMO recognized RCC (Pilot Phase) for the south Asia. For this, NCC started to prepare several climate monitoring and long range forecast products for south Asia. These products include monthly and seasonal rainfall and 2m temperature anomaly maps for the south Asia, season forecast outlook for temperatures and rainfall for south Asian countries, ENSO and IOD forecast bulletin etc. These products are updated every month.
SASCOF
IMD has taken responsibility for the preparation of annual regional forecast outlook for the SW Monsoon Season rainfall under the regionalforum known as the South Asian Climate Outlook Forum (SASCOF). The idea of establishing SASCOF was originated in a meeting convened by WMO, the Directors General of the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) in South Asia and Permanent Representatives (PRs) of the respective countries with WMO, at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, on 6 August 2009. The PRs of south Asian nations with the WMO had unanimously agreed to implement SASCOF for southwest monsoon season from 2010 onwards. The first three (during 2010-2012) and fifth (during 2014) meetings of SASCOF was hosted by India Meteorological Department and held at Pune. The fourth session (in 2013) of the SASCOF was held at Kathmandu, Nepal and sixth session (in 2015) was held at Dhaka, Bangladesh. SASCOFs are generally conducted during the 3rd week of the April month each year. The main activity during all the SASCOFs was the preparation and issuing of a consensus outlook for the southwest monsoon rainfall over South Asia. Associated with last 5 SASCOFs, Training workshops on seasonal prediction were also held.
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CLIMTE MONITORING (DIAGNOSTIC)
•CLIMATOLOGY AND OBSERVED PROUCTS OVER SOUTH ASIA, SST, OLR ETC.
•El Niño Monitoring – NINO INDICES
ELNIO EQUINO SOI
CLIMATE PREDICTION (MODEL FORECAST)
SFM AND CFS FORECASTS AND VERIFICATION
CLIMATE OF INDIA
(RAINFALLAND TEMPERAUTRES STATISTICS & PRODUCTS, SPI, DATA ETC.)
CLIMATE BULLETIN
ANNUAL CLIMATE SUMMARY
RGIONAL PRODUCTS
ENSO BULLETIN
FORECAST OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH ASIA
SASCOF FORECAST OUTLOOK
TRAINING
Training materials of training workshops conducted under SASCOF
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