WMO Symposium on Nowcasting and Very Short Range Forecasting 2009 Whistler, British Columbia, Canada 30 August – 4 Sept, SPONSORS World Meteorological Organization World Weather Research Programme Environment Canada Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society American Meteorological Society INDUSTRIAL SPONSORS Vaisala Selex-SI Gematronik GmbH Weather decision Technologies, Inc. Mardoc Inc.

Committees Programme George Isaac: Chair, Canada Paul Joe: Canada Tom Keenan: Australia Aurora Bell: Romania Barb Brown: U.S.A. Chris Collier: U.K. Beth Ebert: Australia Volker Gaertner: Germany Steve Goodman: U.S.A. Jarmo Koistinen: Finland Edwin S.T. Lai: China Jeanette Onvlee: Netherlands Roy Rasmussen: U.S.A. Stéphane Sénési: France Jian Jie Wang: China Marilyn Wolfson: U.S.A. Isztar Zawadzki: Canada Local Arrangements Paul Joe: Chair George Isaac: Program Chair Monika Bailey: Abstracts Faisal Boudala: Distribution Lists Edwin Campos: Sponsorships/Exhibits Robert Crawford: CD Desiree Dallas: Admin, Invitation Lizz Gow: Conference Kit Karen Haynes: Menus

129 papers from 29 countries submitted 141 experts from 23 countries attended 94 talks, 54 posters and 4 panel discussions on key items of interest. Sessions on nowcasting in support of Olympics (Sydney 2000, Beijing 2008 and Vancouver 2010), the role of the operational forecaster, nowcasting using numerical weather prediction models, data assimilation and ensembles, nowcasting applications, nowcasting using radars and satellites, nowcasting techniques and verification. Presentations can be found on-line at the Web Site