Meteorological simulators have been used for quite many years in training events. The simulators present a saved weather situation, that the meteorologist investigates by using the given meteorological data, preparing forecasts while the time goes on and more data comes in.
The objective of these simulator exercises is to give an opportunity for meteorologists to work with a real data for a real case, and to prepare forecasts and verify them. By doing this, they will have a more engaging learning experience than just by viewing a case study presentation.
For the meteorological trainers and assessors, the simulators offer a way to assess the participants' competencies, and to help the participants practice in a safe environment the correct procedures during high impact weather events. An important part of simulation is to offer an authentic working environment, where the data flows in as it does in an operational environment. To build such an authentic working environment may be tedious. It takes time to retrieve the meteorological data for the case, to build the user interface and to organize the data in the interface.
EUMETSAT has recently developed a simple meteorological simulator that runs on European Weather Cloud (EWC), allowing the simulator to be available for anyone willing to build such exercises. During the webinar, we will demonstrate our simulator at the workshop and exchange experiences with webinar attendees.
It will be presented by Natasa Strelec Mahovic and Vesa Nietosvaara (EUMETSAT).
