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LOCATION OF WMCs AND RSMCs WITH GEOGRAPHICAL SPECIALIZATION AND

RSMCs WITH ACTIVITY SPECIALIZATION

1. The WMCs are located at:

Melbourne (southern hemisphere only)

Moscow

Washington

2. The RSMCs with geographical specialization are located at:

Algiers Khabarovsk Pretoria

Beijing Melbourne Rome

Brasilia Miami Tashkent

Buenos Aires Montreal Tokyo

Cairo Moscow Tunis/Casablanca

Dakar Nairobi Washington

Darwin New Delhi Wellington

Exeter Novosibirsk Jeddah

Offenbach

Broadened RSMC functions:

Offenbach – Provision of ultraviolet-index forecasts for Region VI (Europe)

3. The RSMCs with activity specialization are the following:

RSMC Nadi – Tropical Cyclone Centre

RSMC New Delhi – Tropical Cyclone Centre

RSMC Miami – Hurricane Centre

RSMC Tokyo – Typhoon Centre

RSMC La Réunion – Tropical Cyclone Centre

RSMC Honolulu – Hurricane Centre

RSMC European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (RSMC ECMWF)

Provision of atmospheric transport modelling (for environmental emergency response and/or backtracking)

RSMC Beijing

RSMC Exeter

RSMC Melbourne

RSMC Montreal

RSMC Obninsk

RSMC Offenbach (backtracking only)

RSMC Tokyo

RSMC Toulouse

RSMC Vienna (backtracking only)

RSMC Washington

Global Producing Centres for Long-range Forecasts

GPC Beijing

GPC CPTEC (Brazil)

GPC Exeter

GPC Melbourne

GPC Montreal

GPC Moscow

GPC Pretoria

GPC Seoul

GPC Tokyo

GPC Toulouse

GPC Washington

GPC ECMWF

Regional Climate Centres providing regional long-range forecasts and other regional climate services

RCC Beijing (RA II)

RCC Tokyo (RA II)

RCC-Network (Region) ‘CITYNAME’ Node 1

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‘CITYNAME’ Node n

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