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The Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC), in conjunction with the Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training (COMET®), will hold its inaugural Winter Weather Forecasting Course February 11 to 23. The course will be held at COMET located in Boulder, Colorado, USA. The one-time funding for this course was acquired through the Environment Canada Learning Fund. It is envisioned that the course will be used as an impetus for the development of winter weather distance learning modules and to foster their use in MSC weather centres. It is hoped that, through a comprehensive evaluation, the need for future classroom courses, as a complement to distance learning, will be demonstrated.
Participants in the First MSC/COMET Winter Weather Course include representatives from all five MSC Regions, from Aviation and Defence Services and from the Canadian Meteorological Centre. In addition, as part of an ongoing effort to partner with the National Weather Service (NWS) on mutually beneficial training, four NWS forecasters will participate on the course. One representative from each of Alaska, Western, Central and Eastern Regions have been confirmed.
The course will focus on hazardous winter season meteorology, from the synoptic scale to the mesoscale. The ultimate goal of the course is for participants to increase their understanding of winter weather phenomena and then to transfer this knowledge to local forecast centre meteorologists.
MSC/COMET Winter Weather Course
11-23 February 2001
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For information on the MSC/COMET Winter Weather Course or on any other COMET Course, contact Dr. Greg Byrd @ byrd@comet.ucar.edu or for help in other areas:
Last Updated 14 December 2001
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