Data infrastructure

The EUMETNET Forecasting Programme aims at the support of the weather forecasting processes of its members, the national weather offices in Europe. In six separate projects we cooperate to enhance several aspects of the forecasting process: coordination of the numerical weather prediction (NWP) consortia, nowcasting and very short range forecasting in which the forecaster plays a central role, issuing weather and hydrological warnings (www.meteoalarm.eu ), training the forecaster (http://www.eumetcal.org/courses/ ). To optimize the results we are in close contact with the Heads of Forecasting of the national offices and with the Working Group on Cooperation of European Forecasters which is the main forum of operational weather forecasters in Europe.