1. Enabling Skills for NWP Training
Dr Mick Pope.

2. What are Competencies?
… "define the skills and knowledge to operate effectively and how they need to be applied to perform effectively in a workplace context" – Australian Skills Quality Authority
Forecasts of weather phenomena and parameters are prepared and issued in accordance with documented requirements, priorities and deadlines.
Performance criteria follow
Used to assess forecasters
SKA
CC Singapore Airlines

3. What are Enabling Skills?
SKAD – the role of deep knowledge that underpins the competency knowledge
WMO 1083 pre-requisites
Enabling skills as underpinning skills to fulfil competencies e.g. satellite interpretation, NWP interpretation

4. The Quiet Revolution of NWP
'Useful' forecasts
Verification of 500 hPa heights against analysis. Bauer, Thorpe, Brunet, Nature (2015)

5. Intelligent use of NWP
conceptual models … and the dynamical reasoning on which they are based, are necessary if the forecaster is to be more than a helpless observer of the unfolding atmospheric evolution and its simulated model counterparts. EB Carroll, "Use of dynamical concepts in weather forecasting," Meteorological Applications (1997)

6. Enabling skills in NWP

7. NWP Training in BOM Mixture of face to face & interactive modules
"NWP Essentials"
Currently mostly modules. 'Death by COMET'

8. NWP Essentials interactivity

9. Moving forward
Changing roles – automation, high impact, customer focus
New models – global and city ensemble, CAM
Enabling skills need to reflect statistics, more on ensembles, less on 'model of the day', using CAM well
Assessment more closely aligned with skills

10. Dr Mick Pope. mick.pope@bom.gov.au
Thank you
Dr Mick Pope.