ECMWF Activities Connected to Polar Prediction Project

ECMWF is contributing in several ways to the World Meteorological Organisation's Polar Prediction Project (PPP), which aims to improve weather prediction and services for the polar regions. For example, during the Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP), ECMWF is providing an extensive global data set of coupled forecasts for the community. The data set includes model tendencies to facilitate process evaluation. As a part of EU-H2020 project APPLICATE, which supports YOPP and PPP, ECMWF is also assessing how the observation network in the Arctic helps to improve weather forecasts, developing a new snow scheme for the Integrated Forecasting System, performing targeted verification for the Arctic and developing new diagnostic tools. This poster will highlight all these different activities related to PPP, and its core activity YOPP.