Polar Prediction Resources
For the project, we collected a number of interesting resources on the topic of polar prediction. If you know of any others that we should add, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
There is an excellent introductory video about why we need Polar Prediction developed by the World Meteorological Organisation:
There are a wide variety of different online courses related to Polar prediction available. Some good places to start looking for more specific training material are:
- COMET MetEd
- NASA EarthData webinars and tutorials
- ECMWF training resources
- ECMWF seminars
- UCAR GIS tutorial for atmospheric sciences
- WCRP summer school on model development
There are also many online learning platforms that offer more general courses of relevance to Polar predictions. These include:
- The code academy
- edX
- Coursera
- Udacity
- study.com
- MIT open course ware
- Yale Open Courses
- Web Development courses
Some further interesting resources include:
- The Polar Prediction Matters blog (this has many articles written by users of Polar predictions, so makes for interesting reading)
- You can find some amazing animations of current weather here
- WMO Lead Centre for Annual-to-Decadal Climate Prediction
- Some more general information about weather forecasting can be found here
- Webinar Series: Climate Change and the transition to a zero-emisson society
- MOSAiC, the largest polar expedition in history to gather data and knowledge about Arctic climate
- International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere
- Bootstrapping explained
