7-18 September / Montevideo
The Ibero-American course is a well-established annual two-week course, which has already trained more than 350 forecasters and climatologists in the Central and South American region. This year itfocused on mid-latitudes nowcasting and forecasting, supported by satellite diagnostics. Meteosat is an excellent satellite at the geostationary orbit ,with Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay completely included in its field of view. Argentina and northern Chile are also covered by Meteosat, at a similar horizontal resolution as Finland. The data is used operationally in Bolivia, Cuba and Paraguay, due to its excellent temporal refresh of 15 minutes. Unfortunately, the EUMETCast-Americas dissemination service is foreseen to stop end of 2016.