NHMS Comms Workshop
Conveners:
Mike Morrissey,
Neil Fletcher
Tue, 03 Sep, 09:00–17:15 (CEST) Room Ramon y Cajal
Tue, 09:00
- Welcome - María José Rallo, President of AEMET (5 mins)
- Climate change - can we keep the 1.5C target alive? - Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, IPCC
(remote presentation) (20 mins)
- Countering mis- and disinformation - José Luis Camacho, Technical Advisor, AEMET
(20 mins)
- Ongoing challenges with misinformation - Dave Britton, Met Office (UK) (remote
presentation) (15 mins)
- Rise of AI and impact on weather and climate communication - Brigitte Perrin, WMO
(20 mins)
- Discussion - On the receiving end of mis-and disinformation campaigns - lessons
learned from NMHS? (10 mins)
10:30 - 10:45 - Coffee break
10:45 - 12:30
- EUMETSAT update on communication activities (Meteosat Third Generation, DestinE,
CO2M etc ) - Neil Fletcher (15 mins)
- NMHS presentations on communication initiatives, extreme weather communication,
etc:
o Hellenic National Meteorological Service (HNMS) - Tina Mita and Panos
Giannopoulos (remote presentation)
o Irish Meteorological Service (Met Éireann) - Eoin Sherlock
o Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET Norway) - Mai-Linn Finstad
o German Weather Service (DWD) - Uwe Kirsche
o Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) - Heli Sariola
o Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) - AnnaKarin Norberg
12:30 - 13:30 - Lunch
13:30 - 14:30
- NMHS presentations on communication activities
14:30 - 15:30
- Climate change communication, science engagement toolkit (covering misinformation
and harassment), and AI for communication activities, Liz Bentley, Royal
Meteorological Society and President of EMS (20 mins)
- Greenhouse Gas Watch Initiative, the mitigation leg of climate action at WMO -
Gianpaolo Balsamo, Director G3W, WMO and Brigitte Perrin, Head of communication,
WMO (20 mins)
- Swedish impact warnings initiative - Lisa Lind, SMHI (remote presentation) (20 mins)
15:30 - 15:45 - Coffee break
15:45 - 17:00
- Machine Learning in weather forecasting - Ana Prieto Nemesio / Mario Santa Cruz,
Scientists, ECMWF (30 mins + Q&A/discussion)
- New imagery from Meteosat Third Generation - Mark Higgins, EUMETSAT (remote
presentation) (15 mins)
- “Bridging Science and Society: Communication session at the WMO Regional Scientific
Forum” - Tanja Cegnar, Slovenian Environment Agency (15 mins)
- Discussion
17:00 - 17:30 - Wrap up
18:30 – Optional informal social event