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.
