Polar Coupled Analysis and Prediction for Services

About Polar Coupled Analysis and Prediction for Services:

• Aim: It aims to increase and improve weather, water, ice, and climate information about the Arctic and Antarctic.
• The project will help develop observation systems and Earth system models and advocate for improved forecasting services.
• It is part of WMO's World Weather Research Programme(WWRP).

Key facts about World Weather Research Programme 

• It promotes research to improve weather prediction, and its impacts on society, for minutes to months ahead.
• WWRP's key objectives are:
  • Advance research of the Earth system on times scales from minutes to months.
  • This research, through the science-for-services value cycle approach provides locally and regionally actionable weather information.
  • Improve the warning process to account for increasing risks and the evolving nature of extreme weather impacts.
  • Quantify and reduce uncertainty in predictions on time scales from minutes to months.