WMO Training Course on Weather Forecasting - and beyond - for Regional Meteorological Centers - 17–28 November 2025

Program

Day 1 - Monday, 17 November 2025

Time Activity Responsible
8:30 Registration Julia Carvalho / Marilia de Abreu / Gregorio Barbosa Lemes
9:00 Opening CGCT Coordination José Antônio Aravéquia
9:15 WMO Region III/IV Presentation Daniel Vila
9:30 DIIAV presentation Celso von Randow
9:45 DIPTC presentation - pdf Enver Ramirez
10:00 DISSM presentation Renato Galante
10:15 MONAN introduction Pedro Leite da Silva Dias
10:30 Break  
11:00 DIMNT/MONAN Presentation - pptx Saulo Freitas
11:30 Marinha do Brasil Fellipe Romão
11:45 INMET Morgana Almeida
12:00 Round table Ariane Frassoni / Rosio Camayo
12:30 Lunch  
14:00 Poster session João Messias / Rosemary Odorizi
15:30 Break  
16:00 NWP Overview – Data reception and processing - pdf Eduardo Barbosa
16:30 Data assimilation + Initial condition (50 min) - pdf Carlos Bastarz
17:20 Numerical Weather and Climate prediction products (20 min) - pptx José Alberto Ferreira
18:00 End of the day  

Day 2 - Tuesday, 18 November 2025

Time Activity Responsible
8:00 Daily Briefing Gustavo Escobar / Diego Pedroso / Fellipe Romão / José Manuel Galvez
9:00 Dynamic Core - pdf
- Basic concepts of the governing equations
- Basic concepts of the grid discretization method, and operators used by MONAN
Pedro Peixoto / Guilherme Mendonça / Danilo Couto de Souza
10:30 Break  
11:00 Hands-on grid generation Pedro Peixoto
12:00 Lunch  
14:00 Hands-on MONAN (idealized case)
- Case presentation
- Install, compile, configure and run a simple case with idealized initial conditions
Pedro Peixoto / Paulo Kubota / Guilherme Mendonça / Danilo Couto de Souza
15:30 Break  
16:00 Hands-on MONAN (idealized case)
- Install, compile, configure and run a simple case with idealized initial conditions
Pedro Peixoto / Paulo Kubota / Guilherme Mendonça / Danilo Couto de Souza
18:00 End of the day  

Day 3 - Wednesday, 19 November 2025

Time Activity Responsible
8:00 Daily Briefing Gustavo Escobar / Diego Pedroso / Fellipe Romão / José Manuel Galvez
9:00 Physical Parametrizations Paulo Kubota
10:00 Break  
10:30 Hands-on MONAN (real case)
- Case presentation
- Install, compile, configure and run real-case simulation with a grid built by the participants and real-data initial conditions
Danilo Couto de Souza / Guilherme Mendonça / Paulo Kubota / Pedro Peixoto
12:00 Lunch  
14:00 Hands-on MONAN (real case)
- Install, compile, configure and run a real-case simulation with a grid built by the participants and real-data initial conditions
Danilo Couto de Souza / Guilherme Mendonça / Paulo Kubota / Pedro Peixoto
15:30 Break  
16:00 Hands-on MONAN (real case)
- Install, compile, configure and run a real-case simulation with a grid built by the participants and real-data initial conditions
Danilo Couto de Souza / Guilherme Mendonça / Paulo Kubota / Pedro Peixoto
18:00 End of the day  

Day 4 - Thursday, 20 November 2025

Time Activity Responsible
8:00 Daily Briefing Gustavo Escobar / Diego Pedroso / Fellipe Romão / José Manuel Galvez
10:00 Break  
10:30 End of the day  

Day 5 - Friday, 21 November 2025

Time Activity Responsible
8:00 Daily Briefing Gustavo Escobar / Diego Pedroso / Fellipe Romão / José Manuel Galvez
10:00 Break  
10:30 Daily Briefing José Manuel Galvez
12:00 Lunch  
14:00 Tornado occurrences in Brazil - pdf Ernani L. Nascimento
16:00 Break  
17:00 End of the day  

Day 6 - Monday, 24 November 2025

Time Activity Responsible
8:30 Daily Briefing Gustavo Escobar / Diego Pedroso / José Manuel Galvez
9:30 Multiscale prediction of extreme events:
Short-term
- Nowcasting (introduction, definition, applications, data sources/models, techniques, limitations)
- Operational nowcasting products using AI
Thiago Biscaro
10:30 Break  
11:00 Cordoba Case - pdf 1 e pdf 2
- Diagnoses & Impacts
- Simulation
- Evaluation
Thiago Biscaro
12:00 Lunch  
14:00 MJO Analysis - pptx Lais Fernandes
15:30 Break  
16:00 Rio Grande do Sul Rainfall Case - pptx1 e pptx2
- Diagnoses & Impacts
- Simulation
- Evaluation
Gustavo Escobar / Morgana Almeida / Luiz Kondraski / Lais Fernandes
18:00 End of the day  

Day 7 - Tuesday, 25 November 2025

Time Activity Responsible
8:30 Daily Briefing Gustavo Escobar / Diego Pedroso / José Manuel Galvez
9:30 MET - pdf Julio Pablo Fernandez
10:30 Break  
11:00 MET - pdf Julio Pablo Fernandez
12:00 Lunch  
14:00 MODE/MET Exercise - pdf Glícia Garcia / Victor Antunes Ranieri
15:30 Break  
16:00 Zonda Case - pptx1 e pptx2
- Diagnoses & Impacts
- Simulation
- Evaluation
Federico Otero / Luiz Kondraski
17:30 End of the day  

Day 8 - Wednesday, 26 November 2025

Time Activity Responsible
8:30 Daily Briefing Gustavo Escobar / Diego Pedroso / José Manuel Galvez
9:30 Zonda Case - pptx
- Diagnoses & Impacts
- Simulation
- Evaluation
Federico Otero / Luiz Kondraski
10:30 Break  
11:00 Cyclone Yaku - pdf
- Tools
- Diagnoses & Impacts
- Simulation
- Evaluation
José Manuel Galvez / Diogo Arsego / Marcos Vianna / Lais Fernandes
12:00 Lunch  
14:00 Cyclone Yaku - pptx e pdf
- Diagnoses & Impacts
- Simulation
- Evaluation
José Manuel Galvez / Diogo Arsego / Marcos Vianna / Lais Fernandes
15:30 Break  
16:00 Heat Wave Case
- Diagnoses & Impacts
- Simulation
- Evaluation
Glicia Garcia / Ariane Frassoni / Morgana Almeida / Lais Fernandes
18:00 End of the day  

Day 9 - Thursday, 27 November 2025

Time Activity Responsible
8:30 Daily Briefing Gustavo Escobar / Diego Pedroso / José Manuel Galvez
9:30 Heat Wave Case - pdf
- Diagnoses & Impacts
- Simulation
- Evaluation
Glicia Garcia / Ariane Frassoni / Morgana Almeida / Lais Fernandes
10:30 Break  
11:00 Heat Wave Case- pdf
- Diagnoses & Impacts
- Simulation
- Evaluation
Glicia Garcia / Ariane Frassoni / Morgana Almeida / Lais Fernandes
12:00 Lunch  
14:00 Julia Hurricane - pptx
- Diagnoses & Impacts
- Simulation
- Evaluation
José Manuel Galvez / Marcos Vianna / Lais Fernandes
15:30 Break  
16:00 Julia Hurricane - pdf1 e pdf2
- Diagnoses & Impacts
- Simulation
- Evaluation
José Manuel Galvez / Marcos Vianna / Lais Fernandes
18:00 End of the day  

Day 10 - Friday, 28 November 2025

Time Activity Responsible
8:30 Daily Briefing Gustavo Escobar / Diego Pedroso / José Manuel Galvez
9:30 Participant Presentations Cuba / El Salvador / Ecuador / Uruguay / Costa Rica
10:30 Break  
11:00 Participant Presentations Paraguay / República Dominicana / Bolívia / Panamá
12:00 Lunch  
14:00 Participant Presentations México / Brasil / Costa Rica / Colombia / Perú / Argentina / Chile
15:30 Break  
16:30 Closing session  
18:00 End of the day