Polar Coupled Analysis and Prediction for Services

About Polar Coupled Analysis and Prediction for Services: 

• Aim: It aims to increase and improve weather, water, ice, and climate information about the Arctic and Antarctic.
• The project will help develop observation systems and Earth system models and advocate for improved forecasting services.
• It is part of WMO's World Weather Research Programme (WWRP).

Key facts about World Weather Research Programme 

• It promotes research to improve weather prediction, and its impacts on society, for minutes to months ahead.
• WWRP's key objectives are:
  • Advance research of the Earth system on times scales from minutes to months.
  • This research, through the science-for-services value cycle approach, in providing locally and regionally actionable weather information,
  • Improve the warning process to account for increasing risks and the evolving nature of extreme weather impacts, and
  • Quantify and reduce uncertainty in predictions on time scales from minutes to months.

Q1: World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)?

It is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN). It is the UN system's authoritative voice on the state and behavior of the Earth's atmosphere, its interaction with the oceans, the climate it produces, and the resulting distribution of water resources.

Source: New WMO project to improve weather forecasts in Arctic and Antarctic