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Newsletter January 2024

The full version of HIWeather Newsletter January 2024
Jan 2024
January 2024

May I start by wishing everyone a very happy and productive 2024.

The start of a new year is always a good time to take stock and to redirect our efforts towards the most important priorities. This is a particularly significant year for HIWeather as it will be our last. HIWeather will finish, formally, at the end of the year, which means we have only a limited time left to achieve our goals. There are key pieces of work that need to be finished – publications from the Impact-Based Forecasting project, the Value Chain project, and the Citizen Science project; the social science experiment in the Paris2024 RDP; and the Value Chain database. Most important in this final year will be the Knowledge Transfer activities that will maximise the legacy from HIWeather and hence its long-term impact. Much of that legacy will lie in the new WWRP projects, which will be spinning up this year. Those involved in the new projects will have the opportunity to bring HIWeather concepts to bear in new contexts, especially in the Hydrology, PEOPLE, and African Nowcasting projects (see elsewhere in this newsletter for more on the new projects).

This year’s conferences and workshops will be our opportunity to tell our colleagues and stakeholder communities what we have learned and why it is important. Our own final conference in Germany in September will be especially significant as an opportunity to look back at a decade of successful research, to review the progress that has been made and the extent to which it has influenced forecasting, warning and disaster management, and to look forward to future challenges in a world where early warning and early action are growing in importance as a key adaptation to climate change. Nowhere is this learning more needed than in meeting the UN Secretary General’s challenge for everyone to be protected by weather warnings by 2027.

Please put the conference dates (9 – 13 September) in your diary and sign up to be sent more information as it is produced. I look forward to seeing many of you there. We shall also be producing an end of project summary document to celebrate the impact of HIWeather on the forecasting and warning of high impact weather around the world, so please keep us informed of any activities you are aware of that have been influenced by HIWeather.

Brian Golding

Co-chair of HIWeather

Flagship Activities

NEWS

Relevant Meetings

HIWeather Final Conference

The final conference of HIWeather will be held from 9 to 13 September 2024 in Germany!

Over the past 10 years the HIWeather project in the World Weather Research Programme of WMO has focused the attention of researchers across the world and across many disciplines on the challenges of making forecasts and warnings more effective in saving lives and reducing damage and disruption from weather-related hazards.

In this conference we bring together these diverse groups to celebrate its successes, share new understanding, and look forward to a future in which early warnings and early action will save many more lives and livelihoods.



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PROCESSES & PREDICTABILITY

AEOLUS CAMPAIGN WILL TAKE PLACE IN SEPTEMBER 2021

After two postponements, the Aeolus Tropical Campaign will finally take place inSeptember 2021 on the Cape Verde Islands, off the coast of West Africa. The German (German Aerospace Center, DLR) and French (Service des Avions Français Instrumentés pour la Recherche en Environnement, SAFIRE) Falcon aircraft will fly out of Sal airport, while the US American DC-8 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA) will be stationed on the US Virgin Islands and visit Cape Verde for intensive measurement periods. The research flights will be accompanied by radiosonde launches operated by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and by ground-based dust remote sensing measurements from the island of Mindelo (ASKOS: https://askos.space.noa.gr). In addition to Cal/Val activities for the space-borne wind and aerosol lidar on the Aeolus satellite, scientific investigations will target African Easterly and other Equatorial Waves, tropical cyclogenesis, dust outbreaks from the Sahara and mesoscale convective systems.


Preparing equipment for an Aeolus overpass in Mindelo

After two postponements, the Aeolus Tropical Campaign will finally take place inSeptember 2021 on the Cape Verde Islands, off the coast of West Africa. The German (German Aerospace Center, DLR) and French (Service des Avions Français Instrumentés pour la Recherche en Environnement, SAFIRE) Falcon aircraft will fly out of Sal airport, while the US American DC-8 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA) will be stationed on the US Virgin Islands and visit Cape Verde for intensive measurement periods. The research flights will be accompanied by radiosonde launches operated by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and by ground-based dust remote sensing measurements from the island of Mindelo (ASKOS: https://askos.space.noa.gr). In addition to Cal/Val activities for the space-borne wind and aerosol lidar on the Aeolus satellite, scientific investigations will target African Easterly and other Equatorial Waves, tropical cyclogenesis, dust outbreaks from the Sahara and mesoscale convective systems.

After two postponements, the Aeolus Tropical Campaign will finally take place inSeptember 2021 on the Cape Verde Islands, off the coast of West Africa. The German (German Aerospace Center, DLR) and French (Service des Avions Français Instrumentés pour la Recherche en Environnement, SAFIRE) Falcon aircraft will fly out of Sal airport, while the US American DC-8 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA) will be stationed on the US Virgin Islands and visit Cape Verde for intensive measurement periods. The research flights will be accompanied by radiosonde launches operated by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and by ground-based dust remote sensing measurements from the island of Mindelo (ASKOS: https://askos.space.noa.gr). In addition to Cal/Val activities for the space-borne wind and aerosol lidar on the Aeolus satellite, scientific investigations will target African Easterly and other Equatorial Waves, tropical cyclogenesis, dust outbreaks from the Sahara and mesoscale convective systems.

After two postponements, the Aeolus Tropical Campaign will finally take place inSeptember 2021 on the Cape Verde Islands, off the coast of West Africa. The German (German Aerospace Center, DLR) and French (Service des Avions Français Instrumentés pour la Recherche en Environnement, SAFIRE) Falcon aircraft will fly out of Sal airport, while the US American DC-8 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA) will be stationed on the US Virgin Islands and visit Cape Verde for intensive measurement periods. The research flights will be accompanied by radiosonde launches operated by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and by ground-based dust remote sensing measurements from the island of Mindelo (ASKOS: https://askos.space.noa.gr). In addition to Cal/Val activities for the space-borne wind and aerosol lidar on the Aeolus satellite, scientific investigations will target African Easterly and other Equatorial Waves, tropical cyclogenesis, dust outbreaks from the Sahara and mesoscale convective systems.

After two postponements, the Aeolus Tropical Campaign will finally take place inSeptember 2021 on the Cape Verde Islands, off the coast of West Africa. The German (German Aerospace Center, DLR) and French (Service des Avions Français Instrumentés pour la Recherche en Environnement, SAFIRE) Falcon aircraft will fly out of Sal airport, while the US American DC-8 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA) will be stationed on the US Virgin Islands and visit Cape Verde for intensive measurement periods. The research flights will be accompanied by radiosonde launches operated by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and by ground-based dust remote sensing measurements from the island of Mindelo (ASKOS: https://askos.space.noa.gr). In addition to Cal/Val activities for the space-borne wind and aerosol lidar on the Aeolus satellite, scientific investigations will target African Easterly and other Equatorial Waves, tropical cyclogenesis, dust outbreaks from the Sahara and mesoscale convective systems.