World Meteorological OrganizationEXECUTIVE COUNCILSeventieth SessionGeneva, 20 to 29 June 2018

EC-70/INF. 2.4(3)Submitted by:

Secretary-General23.VI.2018

REPORT OF THE 2018 MEETINGOF THE PRESIDENTS OF REGIONAL ASSOCIATIONS (PRA 2018) AND REPORTS

BY THE PRESIDENTS OF REGIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

CONSOLIDATED LIST OF EVENTS BY REGION FOR 2017-2018 ANDPLANNED EVENTS FOR 2018-2019

REGIONAL ASSOCIATION I (AFRICA)[Amendments in this part have been made by the president of RA I.]

EVENTS CARRIED OUT FROM JUNE 2017 TO MAY 2018

Part I: WMO constituent body sessions and RA I Regional Conferences None(a) Management Group (RA I MG) Meeting held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,

10-11 September 2017;

(b) RA I Tropical Cyclone Committee – 22nd session in Seychelles, 22-27 September 2017;

(c) Working Group on Improved Weather Forecasting, Natural Disaster Reduction, Service Delivery and Communication in Nairobi, Kenya, 27-29 November 2017.

Part II: RA I subsidiary body meetings/sessions

None

Part III: Other meetings, workshops and training courses

(a) 7th MESA Programme Steering Committee Meeting in Addis Ababa from 17–19 July 2017;

(b) Consultative session for the identification and formulation of the Intra-ACP Climate Services Programme with the ECOWAS Commission, Abuja under the 11th EDF, Abuja, 8-9 June 2017;

(c) First Steering Committee of: "Satellite and Weather Information for Disaster Resilience in Africa (SAWIDRA) - Eastern Africa Pproject,28-29 June 2017, Nairobi, Kenya;

(d) EAC Meeting of Heads of Meteorological Services in Arusha, Tanzania, 19-21 June 2017;

(e) The Africa Adaptation Initiative, 22-23 June 2017, Maun, Botswana;(f) 1st Joint Conference of Ministers for Meteorology and Disaster Risk Reduction in the

Economic Community of Central Africa States (ECCAS), 13 October 2017, Brazzaville, Congo;

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(g) Meeting of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Committee of Ministers responsible for Transport and Meteorology in Lilongwe, Malawi, 30 October – 3 November 2017;

(h) Regional Training Workshop on Integrated Flood Management (IFM), Preparation and Financing of IFM Projects, 20-24 November 2017, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso;

(i) First Consultative Meeting for the Establishment of NFCS, Cotonou, Benin, 23-27 November 2017;

(j) WISER-ENACTS II Workshop, Nairobi, Kenya, 28-30, November 2017;(k) International Conference on Lake Chad, 25-28 February 2018, Abuja, Nigeria;(l) 48th Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum (GHACOF),

12-13 February 2018, Mombasa, Kenya;(m) Meteorological Association of Southern Africa (MASA) Board Meeting, Pretoria, South

Africa, 19-21 February 2018;(n) Kenya Meteorological Society (KMS) Annual General Meeting, 20-22 February 2018,

Eldoret, Kenya;(o) 2nd African Climate Talks Meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 22-23 March 2018;(p) CR4D Sub-Committee Meeting, 3-4 July 2017, Geneva;(q) CR4D Sub-Committee Meeting to finalize the CR4D 5 Year Strategic Plan,

31 July - 1 August 2017, Nairobi, Kenya;(r) Meeting of Heads of Meteorological Services for EAC, 22 – 24 May 2018, Arusha,

Tanzania.

Part IV: AMCOMET activities

(a) GFCS-ACP, Regional Coordination Meeting, 1-3 May 2017, Saly Senegal;(b) Technical Deep Dive, Africa Hydromet Programme, 4-5 May 2017, Saly, Senegal;(c) Kick-off Meeting AMDAR-Kenya Programme, 31 July - 1 August 2017, Nairobi, Kenya;(d) AMCOMET Africa Hydromet Forum, 12-15 September 2017, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia;(e) Third Bureau Meeting of AMCOMET, 13-14 September 2017, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia;(f) Specialized Technical Committee (STC) On Agriculture, Rural Development, Water

and Environment, 2-6 October 2017, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia;(g) 6th Meeting of the GFCS ACP Task Team, 10 - 12 October 2017, Geneva;(h) AMDAR Project Steering Committee Meeting, 21 November 2017, Nairobi, Kenya;(i) EAC Heads of NMHSs Meeting, 11-16 December 2017, Mwanza, Tanzania;(j) Highway Preparatory Meeting, 14 December 2017, Mwanza, Tanzania;(k) WMO-AEMET Marinement Meeting 20 February 2018, Madrid, Spain;(l) Highway Technical Workshop, Regional Stakeholder and Steering Committee

Meeting, February - 2 March 2018, Nairobi, Kenya;(m) HIGHWAY PRs Meeting, 24-25 April 2018, Geneva.

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EVENTS PLANNED FOR JUNE 2018 TO DECEMBER 2019

Part I: WMO constituent body sessions and RA I Regional Conferences (a) RA I Regional Conference (RECO) and AMCOMET, 18–19 February 2019, Cairo,

Egypt;(b) Seventeenth session of RA I/4th AMCOMET Ministerial Conference, 20-22 February

2019, Cairo, Egypt.

Part II: RA I subsidiary body meetings/sessions RA I Management Group (MG) meeting, 16–17 June 2018, Geneva.

Part III: Other meetings, workshops and training courses(a) The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will be hosting the

AMCOMET- ECOWAS Hydromet Forum from 17–19 September 2018, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire;

(b) RAIDEG, 22 – 23 September 2018, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire;(c) EUMETSAT USER Forum in Africa from 24 – 28 September 2018, Abidjan,

Cote d’Ivoire;(d) 4th Conference of Committee of Directors of NMHSs in Economic Community of

Central African States (ECCAS)- 4th quarter of 2018;(e) Launching of NFCSs in The Gambia, Togo, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Cabo Verde,

Democratic Republic of the Congo later in 2018.

Part IV: AMCOMET activities (a) 4th AMCOMET Bureau Meeting, 20-22 September 2018, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire;[(b)] 4th session of AMCOMET, 203-225 February 2019, Cairo, Egypt.

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REGIONAL ASSOCIATION II (ASIA)

EVENTS CARRIED OUT FROM JUNE 2017 TO MAY 2018

Part I: WMO constituent body sessions and RA II Regional Conferences Seventeenth session of the Commission for Agricultural Meteorology (CAgM-17), Incheon, Republic of Korea, 18–20 April 2018.

Part II: RA II subsidiary body meetings/sessions (a) RA II Working Group on Hydrological Services, Seoul, Republic of Korea,

17–19 October 2017;(b) RA II Working Group Chairs’ meeting, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates,

12–14 December 2017;(c) First Arab Climate Outlook Forum (ArabCOF-1), Beirut, Lebanon,

29 September 2017;(d) The meeting of the Coordinating Group of the RA II WIGOS Project and Eighth Asia-

Oceania Meteorological Satellite Users’ Conference (AOMSUC), Vladivostok, Russian Federation, 16–21 October 2017;

(e) KMA/WMO Regional Workshop on Impact-based Forecasts in RA II, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 7–9 November 2017;

(f) Fifth session of the East Asia winter Climate Outlook Forum (EASCOF-5), Tokyo, Japan 8–10 November 2017;

(g) Thirteenth session of the North Eurasian Climate Outlook Forum (NEACOF-13), Moscow, Russian Federation, 14–16 November 2017;

(h) Ninth session of the ASEAN Climate Outlook Forum (ASEANCOF-9), Hanoi, Viet Nam, 15–17 November 2017;

(i) WMO/ASEAN Training Workshop on Radar Data Quality and Standardization, Bangkok, Thailand, 5–13 February 2018;

(j) Second ArabCOF meeting, Cairo, Egypt, 13–14 February 2018;(k) JMA/WMO Workshop on Quality Management of Surface Observations, Tokyo, Japan,

19–23 March 2018;(l) Twelfth South Asian Climate Outlook Forum (SASCOF-12) and Training Workshop,

Pune, India, 13–20 April 2018;(m) WMO-IATA Regional Workshop on Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay (AMDAR), Hong

Kong, China, 29–30 May.

Part III: Other meetings, workshops and training courses(a) DBCP Capacity Building workshop for the North Pacific Ocean and its Marginal Seas

(NPOMS-5), Tianjin, China, 4–7 July 2017;(b) Twenty-fifth Session of the GCOS Steering Committee, Hangzhou, China,

25–29 September 2017;(c) Eighth Asia-Pacific GAW Workshop on Greenhouse Gases, Seoul, Republic of Korea,

17–18 October 2017;(d) Joint Meeting of the Implementation Coordination Team of Public Weather Services

Delivery (ICT/PWSD) and the Expert Team on Services and Products Improvement and Innovation, Beijing, China, 30 October–2 November 2017;

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(e) ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee’s 12th Integrated Workshop (IWS) and Advisory Working Group (AWG) meeting, Jeju, Republic of Korea, 30 October–3 November 2017;

(f) China-ASEAN Meteorological Disaster Prevention Workshop, Haikou, China,9–10 November 2017;

(g) LAS/Working Group on Training and Capacity Development, Cairo, Egypt,26–27 December 2017;

(h) SDS training workshop for Arab region, Cairo, Egypt, 10–12 February 2018;(i) Fiftieth session of the ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee, Hanoi, Viet Nam,

28 February–3 March 2018;(j) CBS Expert Team meeting on Operational Weather Forecasting Process and Support

(OWFPS), Beijing, China, 12–16 March 2018;(k) Thirty-fourth session of LAS Permanent Committee of Meteorology,

22–24 April 2018, Cairo, Egypt;(l) Second meeting of the LAS Ministerial Council of Ministers in Charge of Meteorology

and Climate, 26 April 2018, Cairo, Egypt;(m) Meeting of the LAS technical and scientific committee and the council of ministers

for water resources, Kuwait, Kuwait, 2–5 May 2018;(n) Fortieth Meeting of the ASEAN Sub-Committee on Meteorology and Geophysics

(SCMG), Singapore, 2–4 May 2018;(o) Second Session of the CIMO Inter-Programme Expert Team on Operational Weather

Radars (IPET-OWR-2), Seoul, Republic of Korea, 14–17 May 2018;(p) WMO-WEMC-GFCS-BCC Training Course on Climate and Energy, Shanghai, China,

18–20 May 2018;(q) Fifth International Conference Energy & Meteorology (ICEM-5), Shanghai, China, 20-

24 May 2018.

Part IV: Events of extra-budgetary projects(a) First Meeting of the “Canada-CREWS” Southeast Asia Project Steering Committee

Meeting (SeA-PSC-1), Hanoi, Viet Nam, 23 November 2017;(b) Regional Subproject Management Team (RSMT) meeting for SWFDP-SeA, jointly with

Initial Planning Meeting of the Southeast Asia Flash Flood Guidance System (SeAFFGS), Hanoi, Viet Nam, 20–23 November 2017;

(c) SWFDP-SeA Regional Training Workshop on Severe Weather Forecasting and Service Delivery, Hanoi, Viet Nam 19–30 March 2018;

(d) SWFDP-SeA Training Desk at the Regional Forecast Support Centre (RFSC) Hanoi within the National Hydrometeorological Service (NHMS) of Viet Nam, Hanoi,7–18 May 2018.

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EVENTS PLANNED FOR JUNE 2018 TO DECEMBER 2019

Part I: WMO constituent body sessions and RA II Regional Conferences (a) Forty-eighth session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 48),

Incheon, Republic of Korea, 1–5 October 2018;(b) Regional Forum for Directors of NMHSs in RA II, November 2019 (TBC).

Part II: RA II subsidiary body meetings/sessions(a) RA II Management Group Meeting, Geneva, 21 June 2018;(b) RA II Working Group on Climate Services, TBD, 2018;(c) RA II Working Group Chairs’ meeting, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates,

December 2018 (TBC);(d) RA II Management Group Meeting, Geneva, June 2019.

Part III: Other meetings, workshops and training courses(a) UNESCO Water for Sustainable Development 2018-2028 Conference, Dushanbe,

Tajikistan, 20–22 June 2018;(b) Second Central Asia and South Caucasus (CASC) Sub-regional Platform for Disaster

Risk Reduction, 26–27 June 2018, Yerevan, Armenia;(c) Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR, UNISDR Regional

Platform for DRR), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 3–6 July 2018;(d) Third Pacific Islands Training Workshop on Ocean Observations & Data Applications

(DBCP-PI-3) & Fifth JCOMM Marine Instrument WS for Asia-Pacific (RMIC/AP-5), Haikou, China, 9–12 July 2018;

(e) Forty-fifth session of the WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclones (PTC-45), Oman, 23–27 September 2018;

(f) 2018 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop, Hong Kong, China, 31 October–1 November 2018;

(g) Ninth Asia-Oceania Meteorological Satellite Users’ Conference (AOMSUC), Indonesia, 2018 (TBD);

(h) Thirteenth session of the ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee Integrated Workshop (IWS-13), Chiang Mai, Thailand, 5–9 November 2018.

Part IV: Events of extra-budgetary projectsSecond Meeting of the “Canada-CREWS” Southeast Asia Project Steering Committee Meeting (SeA-PSC-2), TBD, October 2018.

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REGIONAL ASSOCIATION III (SOUTH AMERICA)

EVENTS CARRIED OUT FROM JUNE 2017 TO MAY 2018

Part I:WMO Constituent Bodies’ Sessions and RA III Regional Conferences/Regional SeminarsNone

Part II: RA III Subsidiary Bodies’ Meetings / Sessions(a) Joint Meeting of the three Working Groups (Infrastructure, Climate and Hydrology) in

Asunción, Paraguay, October 2017;(b) RA III Management Group Meeting, Willemstad, Curacao, March 2018.

Part III: Other Meetings, Workshops and Training Courses(a) First South American School on Sub seasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Forecast Workshop

in Asunción, Paraguay, August 2017;(b) Drought Monitoring and Forecasting Workshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina,

August 2017;(c) LXI Regional Climate Outlook Forum (RCOF) in Montevideo, Uruguay, in

September 2017;(d) Severe Weather Forecasting Demonstration Project (SWFDP) Workshop in Asunción,

Paraguay, October 2017;(e) Meso-Scale Meteorology Workshop in Lima, Peru, December 2017;(f) Flashflood Guidance System for Peru, Ecuador and Colombia - Initial Planning

Meeting in Bogotá, Colombia, February 2018;(g) XIV Conference of Directors of the Iberoamerican NMHSs (CIMHET) in Willemstad,

Curacao, March 2018;(h) Training on hydro-server under WIGOS SAS/CdP in Brasilia, Brazil, March 2018;(i) La Plata Basin Hydrometeorological Forecasting and Early Warning System

consultation meeting in Brasilia, Brazil, May 2018;(j) Workshop on Data Management for Climate Services in Lima, Peru, May 2018.

EVENTS PLANNED FOR MAY 2018 TO DECEMBER 2018

Part I:WMO constituent body sessions and RA III Regional Conferences/ Regional Seminars

(a) Regional Conference of Regional Association III, Santiago, Chile, November 2018;(b) Seventeenth session of Regional Association III (RA III-17), Santiago, Chile,

November 2018.

Part II: RA III Subsidiary Body Meetings/SessionsRA III Management Group Meeting, Geneva, June 2018.

Part III: Other Meetings, Workshops and Training Courses

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(a) Workshop on Regionalized Scenarios for Climate Change, Montevideo, Uruguay, June 2018;

(b) Impact-Based Forecast and CAP training for RA III, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 2018;

(c) Regional Climate Outlook Forums, TBD.

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REGIONAL ASSOCIATION IV(NORTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN)

EVENTS CARRIED OUT FROM MAY 2017 TO MAY 2018

Part I: WMO constituent body sessions and RA IV Regional conferences/seminarsNone

Part II: RA IV subsidiary body meetings/sessions(a) RA IV Management Group Meeting, Geneva, 11 May 2017;(b) Meeting of the RA IV Experts Group on Severe Weather Forecasting Demonstration

Project (SWFDP), Miami, Florida, USA, 23-26 May 2017;(c) RA IV Management Group Meeting, Austin, USA, 10 January 2018;(d) XI Meeting of the RA IV Working Group on Hydrology, Kingston, Jamaica,

23-25 January 2018;(e) RA IV Hurricane Committee, 40th session, Martinique, France, 9-13 April 2018.

Part III: Other meetings, workshops and training courses(a) 6th WMO-GAW Expert Workshop on Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC), Boulder,

Colorado, USA, 24-26 May 2017;(b) 5th Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (WGNE) Workshop on Systematic

Errors in Weather and Climate Models, Montreal, Canada, 19-23 June 2017;(c) GAW Scientific Advisory Group on Applications, Boulder, Colorado, USA,

22-23 June 2017;(d) 3rd Meeting of RAs III-IV Coordination Group on Satellite Data Requirements,

New York, USA, 16-17 July 2017;(e) Coastal Inundation Forecasting Demonstration Project Caribbean (CIFDP-C) Training

Workshop, 20-21 July 2017;(f) WIGOS Workshop for RA IV, Panama City, Panama, 22-24 August 2017;(g) WMO International Workshop on Global Review of RCOFs, Guayaquil, Ecuador,

5-7 September 2017;(h) 4th Global Cryosphere Watch (GCW) Data Portal Meeting, Montreal, Canada,

14-15 September 2017;(i) CAP Jump-start Workshops in the Caribbean, Curaçao, Grenada, St. Lucia, Dominica,

St. Kitts and Nevis & Sint Maarten, 18 February - 14 March 2018;(j) WMO RA IV Workshop on Hurricane Forecasting and Warning, Miami, USA,

26 February - 9 March 2018;(k) Severe Weather Forecasting Demonstration Project (SWFDP) Eastern Caribbean

Workshop on NWP interpretation and Service delivery, Bridgetown, Barbados,12-15 March 2018.

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Part IV: Events of extra-budgetary projects

(a) Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop (CPASW), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 2-4 May 2017;

(b) Central America Flash Flood Guidance System (CAFFGS) First Steering Committee Meeting (SCM1), San Jose, Costa Rica, 3-5 May 2017;

(c) Installation and training on the MCH database, San Salvador, El Salvador,15-19 May 2017;

(d) Working session of the Climate Services to Reduce Vulnerability in Haiti Project, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 27 May – 2 June 2017;

(e) Working session of the National Hydrometeorological Network project, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 10-14 July 2017;

(f) Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum (CariCOF), May and November 2017 (2 sessions);(g) Course on Monitoring and Prediction of Droughts, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, 5–

9 June 2017;(h) Course on the Hydrometeorology Applications of Meteorological Radars,

Montevideo, Uruguay, 19-23 June 2017;(i) Euroclima Launching Workshop and Disaster Risk Management: droughts and

floods, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 27-30 June 2017;(j) Central American Climate Outlook Forum (CACOF), Managua, Nicaragua,

18-20 July 2017; (k) Weather Ready Nations Workshop, San Jose, Costa Rica, 8-9 August 2017;(l) Working session of the Climate Services to Reduce Vulnerability in Haiti Project,

Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 9-13 October 2017;(m) CAFFGS Training Workshop (Step 1), San Salvador, El Salvador,

14-16 November 2017;(n) Weather Ready Nations Program (WRN) Planning Meeting, Baltimore, USA,

16-21 October 2017;(o) Central American Climate Outlook Forum (CACOF), Guatemala City, Guatemala, 20-

22 November 2017;(p) Central American Hydrological Outlook Forum (CAHOF), Guatemala City, Guatemala,

23-24 November 2017;(q) Working session of the Climate Services to Reduce Vulnerability in Haiti Project,

Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 27 November – 2 December 2017;(r) Workshop on the application of the forecasting model of the European Centre for

the Tropical Meteorology, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 20 November – 1 December 2017;

(s) CAFFGS Operational Training (Step 3), San Diego, USA, 8 January - 2 February 2018;

(t) Working session of the Climate Services to Reduce Vulnerability in Haiti Project, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 4-9 February 2018;

(u) Second Steering Committee Meeting (SCM 2) of the Haiti and Dominican Republic Flash Flood Guidance System (HDRFFGS), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 12-14 February 2018;

(v) Working session of the National Hydrometeorological Network project, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 12-16 February 2018;

(w) WHO Regional Health Workshop on National Adaptation Plans to Climate Change, Panama City, Panama, 28 February – 1 March 2018;

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(x) XIV Meeting of the Conference of Directors of the Ibero-American NMHSs (CIMHET), Willemstad, Curaçao, 7-9 March 2018;

(y) Central American Climate Outlook Forum (CACOF), San Salvador, El Salvador,17-19 April 2018;

(z) Weather Ready Nations Workshop, Guatemala City, Guatemala 23-26 April 2018;(aa) Weather Ready Nations Workshop, San Salvador, El Salvador, 2-3 May 2018;(bb) Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop (CPASW), Anchorage, Alaska,

USA, 22-24 May 2018;(cc) Arctic Polar COF (PCOF) Inaugural session, May 2018, Canada.

EVENTS PLANNED FOR JUNE 2018 TO MAY 2019

Part I: WMO constituent body sessions and RA IV Regional Conferences/SeminarsNone

Part II: RA IV Subsidiary Body Meetings/Sessions(a) RA IV Management Group Meeting, Geneva, June 2018;(b) RA IV Management Group Meeting, Phoenix, USA, January 2019;(c) RA IV Hurricane Committee, 41st session, TBD, March/April 2019;(d) RA IV Management Group Meeting, Geneva, May/June 2019.

Part III: Other Meetings, Workshops and Training Courses

2018(a) Coastal Inundation Forecasting Demonstration Project Wrap-up and finalization,

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, November 2018;(b) Ninth International Workshop on Tropical Cyclones (IWTC-9), Honolulu, USA,

3-7 December 2018;(c) SWFDP Training Workshop, Q2-Q3 2018;(d) RA IV (Training) Workshop on Hurricane Forecasting and Warning, and Public

Weather Services (annual);(e) WMO Online Course for Trainers (Francophones) (tentative);(f) WMO Training Development Workshop (tentative);(g) GCW observations to products for RA IV (tentative);(h) Coastal Inundation Wave and Storm Surge training Workshop (TCP-MMO) Socio-

Economic Benefits of Meteorological (SEBs) and Hydrological Services (tentative);(i) Second WMO Workshop on Operational Climate Prediction (TBC), involvement of

RA IV Members, RCOFs, RCCs (tentative).

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2019(a) WMO RA IV Workshop on Hurricane Forecasting and Warning (annual);(b) Arctic Polar COF (PCOF) (annual).

Part IV: Events of extra-budgetary projects

2018(a) Course on the Generation of Climate Change Scenarios by Region, Montevideo,

Uruguay, 18-29 June 2018;(b) Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum (CariCOF), May and November 2018 (2 sessions);(c) Central American Climate Outlook Forum (CACOF), July and November 2018

(2 sessions);(d) HDRFFGS Regional Operational Training Workshop (Step 4), Q2-2018;(e) National Climate Outlook Forums (NCOFs) in some RA IV countries.

2019(a) Central American Climate Outlook Forum (CACOF), April 2019;(b) Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum (CariCOF), May 2019;(c) National Climate Outlook Forums (NCOFs) in some RA IV countries.(d)

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REGIONAL ASSOCIATION V (SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC)[Amendments in this part have been made by the president of RA V.]

EVENTS CARRIED OUT FROM JUNE 2017 TO MAY 2018

Part I:WMO constituent body sessions and RA V Regional ConferencesNone.

Part II: RA V Subsidiary Body Meetings/Sessions(a) Working Group on Weather Services (RA V WG-WXS), Honiara, Solomon Islands, 11

August 2017;(b) Joint GCOS/WIGOS workshop for Pacific SIDS/LDCs, Nadi, Fiji, 9–12 October 2017;(c) Working Group on Infrastructure (RA V WG-INFR), Singapore, 7–9 November 2017;(d) Working Group Leads’ and Tropical Cyclone Committee Chair’s meeting, Jakarta,

Indonesia, 28–30 November 2017;[(e)] Fiji National Climate Outlook Forum (NCOF) and National Stakeholders Consultation on

Climate Services (NSC), Suva, Fiji, 22–23 February 2018;[(f)] Tonga National Climate Outlook Forum (NCOF), Nuku’alofa, Tonga, 3–4 May 2018;[(g)] Monthly meeting via video/tele-conference of RAV WG-INFR.

Part III: Other Meetings, Workshops and Training Courses(a) Space-Based Weather and Climate Extremes Monitoring (SWCEM) Demonstration

Project (SEMDP) Workshop, Jakarta, Indonesia, 19–21 March 2018;(b) A Preparatory Meeting for SEMDP in East Asia and Western Pacific Regional

Subproject Steering Group (SG-SEMDP); Jakarta, Indonesia, 22 March 2018;(c) Regional group BIP-MT training program for Pacific SIDS/LDCs, Nadi, Fiji,

24 April – 29 June 2017;(d)[(b)] Distance learning course for field hydrology technicians for SIDS/LDCs in RA V, 22 May–

28 July 2017;(e)[(c)] Launching of the Years of the Maritime Continent Research Campaign 2017-2019,

Jakarta, Indonesia, 17 July 2017;(f) Training on National Multi-Hazards Early Warning System with Geo-Spatial

Applications for Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development, Citeko, Indonesia, 10 July – 2 August 2017;

(g) Fourth session of the Pacific Meteorological Council (PMC-4), Honiara, Solomon Islands, 14–17 August 2017;

(h)[(d)] Second Pacific Islands Ministers Meeting on Meteorology (PIMMM-2), Honiara, Solomon Islands, 18 August 2017;

(i)[(e)] Ninth ASEAN Regional Climate Outlook Forum (ASEANCOF-9), Hanoi, Viet Nam, 15-17 November 2017;

(j) Year of Maritime Continent (YMC) - Sumatra 2017 campaign, Bengkulu, Indonesia, November 2017 – January 2018 (Land-based, 16 November 2017 - 15 January 2018 and Ship on-station, 3 December 2017 – 1 January 2018;

(k) Focus Group Discussion II on (YMC IOP) between BMKG-BPPT-JAMSTEC, Bengkulu, Indonesia, 15 January 2018;

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(l) Fiji National Climate Outlook Forum (NCOF) and National Stakeholders Consultation on Climate Services (NSC), Suva, Fiji, 22–23 February 2018;

(m) Regional Workshop on Strengthening Multi-Hazards Early Warning System for Pacific Islands Countries, Bali, Indonesia, 7–8 March 2018;

(n) Niue national workshop on oceans and tides, Alofi, Niue, 19–22 March 2018;(o)[(f)] Vanuatu national public-private sector stakeholders meeting to support maritime safety

and energy efficiency, Port Vila, Vanuatu, 24–26 March 2018; (p)[(g)] Pacific Climate Change Science and Services Research Strategy Workshop, Apia,

Samoa, 12–16 April 2018; (q)[(h)] National workshop on lessons learned from tropical cyclone Gita, Nuku’alofa, Tonga, 30

April–2 May 2018;(r)[(i)] Tonga National Climate Outlook Forum (NCOF), Nuku’alofa, Tonga, 3–4 May 2018;(s) Pacific Meteorological Council (PMC) Panel on Oceans and Marines Services (PIMOS),

Nuku’alofa, Tonga, 7 May 2018;.(t) WMO Experts Mission to Fiji, 21–25 May 2018.

Part IV: Events of extra-budgetary projects(a) First Steering Committee Meeting (SCM 1) of Southeastern Asia-Oceania Flash Flood

Guidance (SAOFFG) Project, Jakarta, Indonesia, 10–12 July 2017;(b) First Meeting of the CREWS Pacific SIDS Project Steering Committee Meeting (Pacific

SIDS PSC-1), Honiara, Solomon Islands, 9 August 2017;(c)[(b)] Meeting on the Green Climate Fund (GCF) project funding proposal for “Enhancing early

warning systems to better build resilience to hydro-meteorological hazards in Pacific SIDS” (Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Timor Leste and Vanuatu), Honiara, Solomon Islands, 9 August 2017;

(d)[(c)] Inception workshop on the GCF project funding proposal for “Enhancing early warning systems to better build resilience to hydro-meteorological hazards in Pacific SIDS, Nadi, Fiji, 23–24 November 2017;

(e)[(d)] National consultation workshop on the GCF project funding proposal for “Enhancing early warning systems to better build resilience to hydro-meteorological hazards in Pacific SIDS”: Timor Leste, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea,23 November-15 December 2017;

(f)[(e)] Kick-off Meeting Weather Ready Nation Indonesia, Jakarta & Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 21 February – 1 March 2018;

(g) Inception workshop on the Green Climate Fund (GCF)/SPREP/Vanuatu Climate Information Services for Resilient Development (CISRD) Project, Port Vila, Vanuatu, 22–23 February 2018;

(h)[(f)] First meeting of the Steering Committee for the Green Climate Fund (GCF)/SPREP/Vanuatu Climate Information Services for Resilient Development (CISRD) Project, Port Vila, Vanuatu, 26 February 2018;

[(g)] Southeastern Asia-Oceania Flash Flood Guidance System (SAOFFGS) Steering Committee Meeting 2 (SCM2), Citeko, Indonesia, 3–5 May April 2018;

(i)[(h)] Final Planning Meeting and Eleventh Steering Committee Meeting for the Australian Government funded Phase 1 of the Climate and Ocean Service Programme in the Pacific (COSPPac), Nuku’alofa Tonga, 8–9 May 2018;

(j)[(i)] Pre-planning Meeting for the Australian Government funded Phase 2 of the Climate and Ocean Service Programme in the Pacific (COSPPac), Nuku’alofa Tonga,10–11 May 2018;

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(k)[(j)] Regional validation workshop on the Green Climate Fund (GCF) project funding proposal for “Enhancing early warning systems to better build resilience to hydro-meteorological hazards in Pacific SIDS”, Port Vila, Vanuatu, May 2018.

EVENTS PLANNED FOR JUNE 2018 TO DECEMBER 2019

Part I:WMO constituent body sessions and RA V Regional Conferences[(a)] Seventeenth session of Regional Association V (RA V-17), Nuku’alofa, Tonga,

15–17 October November 2018;[(b)] Seventh Regional Conference for NMHSs in RA V, Nuku’alofa, Tonga,

12-13 OctoberNovember 2018;(a)[(c)] Regional Forum for Directors of NMHSs in RA V, November 2019 (TBD).

Part II: RA V Subsidiary Body Meetings/Sessions(a) RA V Management Group Meeting, Geneva, 23 June 2018;(b) Seventeenth session of the RA V Tropical Cyclones Committee, Noumea,

New Caledonia, 23–26 July 2018;(c) Preparatory RA V Management Group Meeting, Indonesia, 2018 (TBD);(d) RA V Management Group Meeting, Geneva, June 2019;(e) Monthly meeting via video/tele-conference of the Working Group on Infrastructure

(RA V WG/INFR).

Part III: Other Meetings, Workshops and Training Courses(a) Pacific SIDS preparatory meeting for the review of the S.A.M.O.A Pathway,

Nuku’alofa, Tonga, 19–21 June 2018;(b) Third Pacific Islands Training Workshop on Ocean Observations & Data Applications

(DBCP-PI-3) & Fifth JCOMM Marine Instrument WS for Asia-Pacific (RMIC/AP-5), Haikou, China, 9–12 July 2018;

(c) OSCAR/Surface Training, Citeko, Indonesia, 18–20 September 2018;(d) Ninth Asia/Oceania Meteorological Satellite Users' Conference (AOMSUC-9) Jakarta,

Indonesia, 6–11 October 2018;(e) Inter-regional SIDS preparatory meeting for the review of the S.A.M.O.A Pathway,

Apia, Samoa, October 2018;(f)[(d)] Conjoint WMO Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre Best Practices workshop (VAAC BP-6) and

WMO/IUGG Volcanic Ash Scientific Advisory Group meeting (VASAG-8), Wellington, New Zealand, 5–9 November 2018;

(g)[(e)] Meetings of the Pacific Meteorological Council’s Panels via video/teleconferences, 2018 & 2019;

(h) Twenty-ninth SPREP meeting of officials and Environment Ministers meeting, Apia, Samoa, 2019;

(i)[(f)] Fifth session of the Pacific Meteorological Council, Apia, Samoa, 2019.

Part IV: Events of extra-budgetary projects(a) Meeting of the Regional Subproject Management Team (RSMT) for the SWFDDP for

the South Pacific Islands, Noumea, New Caledonia, 27–28 July 2018; (b) Second Meeting of the CREWS Pacific SIDS Project Steering Committee Meeting

(Pacific SIDS PSC-2), TBD, October 2018.

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(c) Weather Ready Nation Indonesia, Semarang, Indonesia, TBD, June/July 2018.

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REGIONAL ASSOCIATION VI (EUROPE)

Events carried out from June 2017 to May 2018

(1) RA VI Constituent and Subsidiary Bodies meetings(a) RA VI Regional Conference (RECO), 5-6 February 2018, Geneva;(b) Seventeenth session of RA VI, 7-9 February 2018, Geneva.

(2) Conferences and Specialized For a

2017(a) Final Conference of the Phase I of the project "SEE-MHEWS-A", June, Ljubljana,

Slovenia;(b) Ninth session of the Mediterranean Climate Outlook Forum, November, Zagreb,

Croatia;(c) Eighteenth session of South East European COF, November, Zagreb, Croatia;(d) Thirteenth session of North Eurasian Climate Outlook Forum, November, Moscow,

Russian Federation;(e) EUMETNET 19th Assembly meeting, November, Budapest, Hungary.

(3) Meetings, Workshops and Training Courses2017

(a) Multi-Agency meeting of the Istanbul Urban Flash Flood Early Warning System, August, Istanbul, Turkey;

(b) Multi-Agency meeting of Harsit Riverine Routing of the Black Sea Flash Flood Guidance System, August, Trabzon, Turkey;

(c) The Fifth European Communications Workshop for NMHSs, September, Dublin, Ireland;

(d) South East Europe Flash Flood Guidance System Second Steering Committee Meeting, September, Podgorica, Montenegro;

(e) International workshop on Middle East (Regional) Dust Sources and Their Impacts, October, Istanbul, Turkey;

(f) Sixth Training Course on WMO Sand Dust Storm-WAS Products, October, Istanbul, Turkey;

(g) Joint RA II and RA VI Workshop on WIGOS, October, Minsk, Republic of Belarus;(h) Central Asia Region Flash Flood Guidance System Follow-up Operational Workshop,

October-November, Astana, Kazakhstan;(i) Regional Workshop on Aircraft meteorological Data Relay for Eastern Europe,

December, Budapest, Hungary.

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(4) Other activities

2017(a) 80th Anniversary Celebration of the Israeli Meteorological Service, September,

Bet Dagan, Israel;(b) 15th Session ICSEED, October, Belgrade, Serbia;(c) Sixteenth session of the Informal Conference of South-East European NMHSs

Directors, October, Belgrade, Serbia.

EVENTS PLANNED FOR JUNE 2018 TO DECEMBER 2019

2018SEE-MHEWS-A Project Technical Team meetings (TT-Obs, TT-Mod, TT-ICT).

2019(a) 4th RA VI Hydrology Forum, (Q1);(b) SEE-MHEWS-A Project Phase II Steering Committee meeting, May;(c) SEE-MHEWS-A Project Technical Team meetings (TT-Obs, TT-Mod, TT-ICT, TT-CD).

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