Education and Training

WMO has currently designated six Centres of Excellence for Satellite Education and Training, they are the RMTCS in Costa Rica, Barbados, Niamey, Nanjing and Niger, and the Bureau of Meteorology Training Centre in Australia. These six centres in partnership with NOAA/NESDIS, JMA, EUMETSAT and CMA make up the initial core of the CGMS / WMO Virtual Laboratory for Satellite Meteorology. The Virtual Lab is a web portal for Satellite Meteorology Education and Training and when fully established will offer education and training material for Satellite Meteorology specialists and Operational Forecasters as well as access to the Virtual Resource Library.

There are several entries to the Virtual Lab:

WMO
http://www.wmo.ch/hinsman/vl.htm

CIRA
http://www.cira.colostate.edu/ramm/wmovl/main.html

EUMETSAT
http://rain.eumetsat.de/cgi/VLab/start

BMTC
http://www.virtuallab.bom.gov.au