Day 2: Wednesday, 21 November 2018 09:00-09:45 SWFDP-Eastern Africa – Practices & Experience Guidance product development process and interpretation of guidance product Case studies – lessons learned, success stories and failures David Koros (45 min) 09:45-10:30 SWFDP-Eastern Africa – Verification Experience Forecast verification process at RSMC Nairobi SWFDP Evaluation form David Koros (45 min) 10:30-11:00 Coffee/ Tea Break 11:00-12:30 Global NWP products for SWFDP-West Africa NOAA/NCEP products through African Desk: an overview (access demo), interpretation and in forecasting ECC Canada – availability of data and products: an overview (access demo), interpretation and usage in forecasting TBD – NOAA/NCEP (45 min) Andre Giguere (45 min) 12:30-13:30 Lunch Break 13:30-13:45 Current weather discussion DGMN-Togo (15 min) 13:45-14:30 MeteoFrance – availability of data and products: overview (access demo), interpretation and usage in forecasting Marjorie Bougeon (45 min) 14:30-15:30 Forecaster’s Handbook Elements Deep convection Douglas Parker (60 min) 15:30-16:00 Coffee/ Tea 16:00-17:30 Regional NWP/Limited Area Model (LAM) – Products and Services Products and services available from regional centres including their interpretation and usage (e.g. case studies) RSMC Dakar ACMAD AGRHYMET Regional Centre Abdou Aziz Diop (30 min) Elijah Adefisan (30 min) TBD-AGRHYMET (30 min) Day 3: Thursday, 22 November 2018 09:00-1030 Forecaster’s Handbook Elements Local weather Douglas Parker (90 min) 10:30-11:00 Coffee/ Tea break
11:00-12:30 Nowcasting Nowcasting concepts, basics and challenges Satellite Nowcasting: Identifying convection initiation, lightening detection, and probability of severe weather including use of RDT products Important Note: Please do the following e-learning courses by 15 November 2018 prior to the workshop: Please click on "Proceedings" at the bottom to see detailed introduction of application of Nowcasting techniques. Estimation propagation of MCC/MCS (about 30 minutes): Douglas Parker (45 min) Marjorie Bougeon & Aziz Diop (45 min) 12:30-13:30 Lunch Break 13:30-13:45 Current weather discussion DGMN-Togo (15 min) 13:45-14:30 Atmospheric instability and practical use of specific products and indices in diagnosis of deep convection and severe weather K-Index, Total Totals Index, Lifted Index, Vertical Velocity, CAPE, Precipitable water, Theta-E etc. TBD - NOAA/NCEP (45 min) 14:30-15:30 Practical Session: Satellite Nowcasting (Lecturers may consider dividing trainees into several groups for exercise) Marjorie Bougeon and Abdou Aziz Diop to lead) Douglas Parker (to assist) (60 min) 15:30-16:00 Coffee/ Tea break 16:00-17:30 Practical Session: Severe weather forecasting for Short-range Preparing forecasts for Day 1 & Day 2 (Lecturers may consider dividing trainees into several groups for exercise) Aziz Diop and David Koros (to lead) Other lecturers (to assist) (90 min) Day 4: Friday, 23 November 2018 09:00-10:30 Combining nowcast, NWP forecast & conceptual models Concept models for heavy rain with examples Blending of nowcast and NWP forecast Marjorie Bougeon (90 min) 10:30-11:00 Coffee/ Tea break 11:00-12-30 Introducing model output verification methods: contingency tables and scores (Lecture 45 minutes, practical 45 minutes) (The participants will be able to carry out contingency table verification with the help of the tools used in the session, and will understand the meaning of the most useful scores) Important Note: Please following e-learning course on forecast verification by 15 November 2018 prior to the workshop. Andre Giguere (90 min)