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The new WMO RA VI Regional Climate Centre on Climate Monitoring (Europe and Middle East)
Regional Climate Centres (RCCs) are institutions with the capacity and mandate by WMO to develop high quality regional-scale products using global products and incorporating regional information. Recently a pilot network of three RCC consortia was established for the WMO region RA VI (Europe and Middle East):
- RCC node on climate data,
- RCC node on climate monitoring,
- RCC node on long-range forecasting.
RCCs provide online access to their products and services to national meteorological and hydrological services and to other regional users. Vice versa, RCCs receive data, products, know-how and feedbacks from the meteorological services as a main source for regional information. By the same time, they provide regional data, products and feedbacks to Global Production Centres and Lead Centres for respective verification and product optimisation of the global-scale information.
The WMO RA VI Regional Climate Centre on Climate Monitoring (RCC-CM) will perform basic functions covering the domain of climate monitoring:
- Annual and monthly climate diagnostic bulletins,
- Monthly monitoring maps: global, RAVI, Eastern Mediterranean, South Caucasus,
- Reference climatologies and trend maps,
- RA VI climate monitoring WebPortal,
- Climate watches,
- Training; Research and Development (R&D).
RCC-CM provides products for the following climate variables:
- temperature
- precipitation
- sunshine duration
- drought
- surface air pressure
- cloud cover
- water vapour content (precipitable water)
- radiation
- snow
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