1. Bureau of Meteorology Training Centre Melbourne, Australia
CoE Presentations
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2. Objectives Review activities over the last 12 months
How can V-Lab better support us?
What worked? What didn’t work?
Future plans?
Future plans
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3. Activities - Classroom
Graduate Diploma of Meteorology
(BIP-M + specialisation)
(Feb - Nov)
2009: Australia (14), Fiji (4), Vanuatu (1), Singapore (1), Hongkong (1)
2010: Australia (22), Fiji (3), Samoa (1), Singapore (1), Hongkong (1)
Basic & advanced satellite meteorology
WMO: Southern hemisphere TC workshop (29 Sept – 9 Oct)
2009: 14 participants Australasia and Africa
Dvorak technique, microwave imagery, scatterometer data
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4. Activities
Classroom
Advanced Forecaster Course (31 May – 11 June 2010)
Vesa Nietosvaara
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5. Activities: RFG
8 June 2010: AFC - Regional satellite chart discussion held between Bureau Forecasters & Forecasters from Met Service New Zealand.
Online discussion led by: - Bodo Zeschke (BoM) - Chris Webster (Met Services NZ)
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9. What worked / did not work well?
 Support from JMA & EumetCAL & VLab team!
 The RFG is a good “vehicle” for (re)-building and reinforcing conceptual models and better use of satellite products to mitigate forecaster de-skilling (atrpohying of skills)!
Some of the best sessions on the AFC were “virtual sessions”. If used appropriately, software to support virtual sessions (such as “Goto Webinar”) can enhance learning.
  Need to revise conceptual models and use diagnostics that reinforce conceptual models.
 Beware of looping imagery in virtual sessions due to bandwidth issues / line speed!
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10. Approaches / tools that worked well
 Resources that serve as both operational & training tools will enhance the transfer of learning into the operational environment (SATrep online is a good example).
 Tools that allow for direct comparison of “like with like” (comparing apples with apples)
- Comparing synthetic satellite data from NWP models with “real satellite data”
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11. Plans – future activities
Strategic:
Developing resources and tools that support a continuous learning culture.
Re-developing training resources that have been used exclusively for ab-initio training so that they are available to a wider community of users.
E-learning strategy:
Moodle implementation: Corporately-supported internal & external servers.
Building a wider RFG community (Asia-Pacific – Southern Hemisphere)
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12. Meteorologist Course Number 56
Date
Name of training event
Topics to be addressed
Lecturers
Classroom courses
Until mid-November
Meteorologist Course Number 56
Various subjects utilising satellite imagery, including Advanced Satellite Meteorology (BZ) and Tropical Cyclone Meteorology (BZ)
Bodo Zeschke (BZ)
Distant learning
courses
Likely to commence within the next three months
Webinar sessions on Water Vapour imagery
Water Vapour imagery training disseminated to Australian Regional Forecasting Centres originally. Potential for collaboration with overseas Forecasting Centres also.
Bodo Zeschke
RFG events
Within the next two months
Updating competencies of Satellite Meteorology lectures at the Bureau of Meteorology Training Centre (BMTC)
Incorporate the updated WMO 258 Section 7.9 competencies into the Basic and Advanced Satellite Meteorology courses at BMTC
ongoing
BMTC Moodle lecture creation / multimedia integration environment.
Development of a Moodle “shopfront” to the Bureau of Meteorology Training Centre, including a VLab web interface.
Merrin Bennett, Mick-Pope (BMTC)
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13. How can help?
We need to make sure that we are proactive in selling the clear benefits of “membership” of the V-Lab program.
Clearly we are seeing:
Engagement
Sharing of expertise
Leveraging of resources
An agreed / supported process for building the RFG’s? (through the WMO PR’s?)
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