Republic of Indonesia (BMKG)
Republic of Indonesia (BMKG)
From the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) circular letter dated 28 January 2021 ref. 97/2021/MS/ETFD about the WMO Education and Training Opportunities (2021), which announced that in 2021 and 2022 WMO will organize blended group training on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) in different WMO Regions and in the official languages.
The course is aimed at personnel whose work relates to NWP as it will equip participants with knowledge and practical skills in this field. The blended courses will be composed of two parts, namely, the online phase and the follow-up on-campus part in the Regional Training Centre (RTC) premises. The online part will focus mainly on theory. The on-campus part will consolidate the theoretical knowledge and conduct the practical curricula which are difficult to instruct online.
I am pleased to inform you that after intensive discussions with RTC the first online part of the blended group training on NWP at RTC Indonesia hosted by the Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics of the Republic of Indonesia (BMKG) will be held from 20 May to 2 July 2021. The course will be conducted in English.
WMO Members of Regional Association V are invited to nominate candidates for the tailored courses to build the capacity of service delivery personnel. To ensure the teaching quality, Members are invited to kindly nominate up to three candidates. Applications from women and men are equally sought. The nomination will commit to guaranteeing that participants will be available to attend all live sessions, and have sufficient time allocated for the completion of all self-study modules. The time commitment for each participant is expected to be around 20 hours per week for attending live sessions and completing self-study modules and exercises. Each participant needs to have access to an individual computer or laptop, with a reliable internet connection, which allows streaming of videos and sound, as well as connection to remote servers to complete self-study modules.
Please note that the on-campus participants will only be selected from the online session participants. The on-campus session will be announced to the selected participants in due course.
Candidates should first apply to RTC Indonesia with the BMKG Application Form (Annex III) and send the form to apply.rtcbmkg@bmkg.go.id no later than 7 May 2021 to acquire the admission letter, then send to WMO the Fellowship Nomination Form (FNF) and the admission letter to fel@wmo.int no later than 14 May 2021. The detailed course plan and related information are in Annexes I and II.