WMO has established the Polar Prediction Project (PPP), whose mission is to “Promote cooperative international research enabling development of improved weather and environmental prediction services for the polar regions, on time scales from hours to seasonal”.

International workshop on polar-lower latitude linkages and their role in weather and climate prediction

• Working document describing the workshop
• Summary of the first teleconference of the scientific committee
• Summary of the first teleconference of the local organising committee
• Description of the three topics of the workshop.

• Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW 2015), 23-30 April 2015, Toyama, Japan
• Dynamics of Atmosphere-Ice-Ocean Interactions in the High-Latitudes, 23-27 March 2015, Bergen, Norway
• Arctic Shipping Summit, 18-19 March 2015, Montréal, Canada
• Arctic Change 2014, 8-12 December 2014, Ottawa, Canada
• Arctic Sea Ice Reduction: the Evidence, Models, and Global Impacts, 22-23 September 2014, London, UK
• Arctic sea ice reduction: the evidence, models, and global impacts - further discussion, 24-25 September 2014, UK
• 6th International Workshop on Sea Ice Modelling and Data Assimilation, 15-16 September 2014, Toulouse, France
• XXXIII SCAR Biennial Meetings and Open Science Conference, 23 August-3 September 2014, Auckland, New Zealand
• NOAA Science Challenge Workshop: Predicting Arctic Weather and Climate and Related Impacts, 13-15 May 2014, Boulder, USA
• Open Workshop: Observations of upper-ocean and sea-ice interactions in the eastern Arctic Ocean, 24-25 April 2014, Arlington, Virginia, USA
• Building International Research Partnerships in the North Atlantic–Arctic Region, 14-16 April 2014, Arlington, Virginia, USA
• Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW 2014), 5-11 April 2014, Helsinki, Finland
• Northern Hemisphere polar jet stream and links with Arctic climate change IASC/CliC/IMO/NOAA Workshop, 13-15 November 2013, Reykjavik, Iceland
• Cryosphere in a Changing Climate Grand Challenge Imperatives, 16-18 October 2013, Tromsø, Norway

• Report: Building International Research Partnerships in the North Atlantic–Arctic Region: An International Planning Workshop for a North Atlantic–Arctic Science Program.
• Report: Understanding Arctic Ocean Processes Under Changing Ice Cover: Observing Upper-Ocean and Sea-Ice Interactions in the Eastern Arctic Ocean.
• Report: US CLIVAR Variations, Summer 2014: Predictability of Arctic climate variability.
• Nature comment: Polar research: Six priorities for Antarctic science.
• Workshop summary: Linkages breakout group of the NOAA Science Challenge Workshop: Predicting Arctic Weather and Climate and Related Impacts.
• Review paper: Walsh, J., 2014. Intensified warming of the Arctic: Causes and impacts on middle latitudes. Global and Planetary Change, doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.03.003.
• Review paper: Vihma, T., 2014. Effects of Arctic sea ice decline on weather and climate: a review. Surveys in Geophysics, accepted.
• Review paper: Thomas, K., 2014. Linkages between Arctic warming and mid-latitude weather patterns: Summary of a workshop. National Research Council, Washington DC, The National Academies Press. Original link.
• Review paper: Cohen, J. et al., 2014. Recent Arctic amplification and extreme mid-latitude weather. Nature Geoscience, 7 627-637.
• Review paper: Bader, J. et al., 2011. A review on Northern Hemisphere sea-ice, storminess and the North Atlantic Oscillation: observations and projected changes. Atmospheric Research, 101, 809-834.
• Report: Northern Hemisphere polar jet stream and links with Arctic climate change, IASC/CliC/IMO/NOAA Workshop (13-15 November 2013 at Reykjavik in Iceland).
• Report: Arctic ECRA: Strategy and Work Plan.

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