Course length: 10 days

Location: Courses are held in the Met Office College facilities at our Exeter headquarters or at a location of your choice.

Aim: To update and extend the student's meteorological knowledge and, where appropriate, facilitate career development.

On completion of this course you will be able to:

• understand and apply the fundamental principles of synoptic meteorology to analyse synoptic observations, satellite and radar imagery and basic numerical weather prediction output;

• outline the principles of operational Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) systems, describing recent updates to NWP products and the limitations of NWP;

• interpret weather satellite and rainfall radar imagery, stating their strengths and weaknesses;

• combine the new understanding of theory, NWP and observational systems to explain current weather conditions.

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