First Session of the MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATE OUTLOOK FORUM (MedCOF-1)

Belgrade, Serbia, November 18-19, 2013

Climate experts from WMO RA VI RCC Network Nodes on long-range forecasting (Meteo France, France), WMO RA VI RCC Network Node on climate monitoring (Deutscher Wetterdienst, Germany), WMO Nord Africa RCC Network Nodes on long-range forecasting (Directorate of National Meteorology, Morocco), WMO Nord Africa RCC Network Node on climate monitoring (National Institute of Meteorology, Tunisia), Global Producing Centre ECMWF, Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the Italian National Research Council (Italy), Institute of Biometeorology (Italy), South East Europe Virtual Climate Change Centre (SEEVCCC, Serbia) and National Hydrometeorological Services of MedCOF region provided their valuable contribution to the successful implementation of MedCOF-1 by developing the relevant documents and providing scientific guidance and recommendations.

The MedCOF-1 comprised of the following Steps:

• Step 1:

  Assessment of the current state of the climate including large-scale climate patterns worldwide and assessments of its likely evolution in the course of the next months.

• Step 2:

  Building the consensus forecast for 2013/2014 winter season.