Theme

The 2020 Bureau of Meteorology Annual Research and Development Workshop will be held online during 23-26 November 2020. The workshop will explore the theme “A Land of Storms, Floods and Bushfires: Seamless and Integrated Forecasting”. Australia is a land of extremes, and in recent years the country has experienced several high impact weather and climate events. The devastating bushfire season of 2019-2020 and recent mass bleaching events damaging the Great Barrier Reef are just two examples. Improved preparation for the challenges posed by the increasingly extreme environment requires comprehensive, trusted and timely weather, climate and water information to be delivered to the Australian community and business sectors.

Motivated by the release earlier this year of R&D Plan , this workshop provides a forum for researchers, operational staff and end users to explore innovations and collaborations that enhance our numerical environmental and weather-climate prediction and extreme event forecasting capabilities.

Topics

Driven by the demand for risk-based decision-making tools for the protection of life and assets, the rapidly evolving state of high-performance computing infrastructure, and the sharp increase in data volume in observations and forecasts, the Bureau’s new Research and Development Plan outlines the following four objectives for the next decade:

• Customised impact-based forecasts and warnings when and where it counts: more localised, timely and better information for cities and regional areas,
• Reliable and trusted forecasts: enhanced assimilation of observations for more accurate predictions,
• An earth system numerical prediction capability: fully integrated atmosphere, ocean, sea-ice and hydrology models,
• Seamless weather and climate insights: historical observations to predictions, from minutes to decades.

Updates

Registration is open now. Closing date: 31 October 2020. For any further information, please email Mandy Mitrevski.

For those who wish to submit an E-Poster, please send an email to Francois Delage with a draft title by 16 October.

Workshop Program is available to download now. For any further information about the program, please email Hongyan Zhu .

Workshop abstract is available to download now.

Guidelines for the speakers and session chairs is available to download now.