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World Meteorological Organization CONSULTANCY: Long range forecasting calibration in ICPAC Switzerland WMO Jobs 2024

World Meteorological Organization looking for “CONSULTANCY: Long range forecasting calibration in ICPAC”. Applicants with a Bachelor’s degree may apply on or before 14-Jul-24.

The World Meteorological Organization has published a job vacancy announcement on 04/07/2024 for qualified applicants to fill in the vacant post of CONSULTANCY: Long range forecasting calibration in ICPAC to be based in , Switzerland. For more jobs, please visit https://unjoblink.org

Company Name: World Meteorological Organization

Job Title: CONSULTANCY: Long range forecasting calibration in ICPAC

Duty Station: , Switzerland

Country: Switzerland

Application Deadline: 14-Jul-24

Responsibilities:

The objective of the consultancy is to lead work to develop and implement the Kharin et. al. 2017 scheme, and specifically to assist, coach and provide guidance to RCC-IGAD (ICPAC) personnel to:

1) Install in the RCC-IGAD forecasting suite a scheme to calibrate the GPC model precipitation outputs that returns measurably reliable monthly and seasonal probability forecasts (e.g., Kharin et al 2017, Monthly Weather Review);

2) Conduct experimentation to select optimum spatial and temporal averaging in construction of calibration coefficients;

3) Assess and compare the reliability of the new calibration procedure against that of the current operational system;

4) Implement the scheme in the RCC-IGAD operational suite for 12 rolling 3-month seasons and for 1- 2- and 3-month lead times, with capability to also calibrate forecasts for 4-month seasons (e.g., JJAS) as well as 1-month forecasts. The scheme to be implemented for all GPCs used by RCC-IGAD;

5) Operate and maintain the scheme and plan its extension to calibration of temperature forecasts;

6) Carry out other relevant duties as required.

Requirements: