Online phase: 30 September to 10 November 2019
Classroom phase: 18 November – 22 November 2019 / Classroom phase in Vienna (Austria)
The national weather services of the German-speaking countries have decided to establish a yearly training course for forecasters in German language. The course comprises an online phase (six weeks) and a one-week classroom phase, held this year in Vienna.
Various topics will be covered (fronts and frontal systems, floods, convection, low clouds and weather phenomena relevant for aviation forecasters). One of these topics will be covered in depth during the classroom phase.
The course will be held each year under the varying responsibility of one of the involved weather services. In 2019, the focus will be on cyclogenesis, frontal systems, and heavy precipitation, under the lead of ZAMG. Next year the focus will be on low cloud phenomena like stratus and fog, under the responsibility of MeteoSwiss. In 2021, the main topic will be convection, under the lead of DWD. The course is supported by EUMETSAT.