European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
The first workshop devoted to setting up TIGGE was held on March 1–3, 2005, at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). The final report of the workshop laid out a plan for setting up the THORPEX TIGGE-GIFS working group as soon as possible and for setting up the infrastructure for TIGGE over the next few years, in time to contribute to proposed real-time THORPEX support for the International Polar Year field campaigns in 2007-08 and the 2008 Beijing Olympics WWRP Research and Development Project.