Poster session on Monday afternoon
We will have a poster session on Monday afternoon during the drink reception. Participants to the course are strongly invited to bring their poster describing the activity of their NMHS and how ECMWF forecast products and data are used. If you are attending the course together with a colleague, you may wish to prepare a joint contribution. If you are coming the the Train the Trainer edition of the course, please make sure that the poster addresses activities related to training.
The aim of the session is to share experiences of ECMWF products and to provide feedback to ECMWF. We will run a small competition for the best poster based on the poster content and layout.
Posters do not need to be complicated and high quality, a simple poster showing your NMHS and its use of ECMWF data would be sufficient.
If you are not familiar with making a poster, the following links may be useful but remember that you may be able to find information on how to create a poster by simply searching on the internet. Have a look at:
Examples of posters:
http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/ExamplePosters.html
How to put together the content for the poster:
http : //www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/sciences/learning_and_teaching/SSposter.htm (link no longer maintained at staffs.ac.uk)
How to create a poster with powerpoint:
Ideas for the poster:
- Your poster could be about a weather event where ECMWF products have been either useful or misleading in producing your forecast. For example, if you have been involved in forecasting an extreme event, we would like to know briefly why you selected that event, which ECMWF products you have found most useful/misleading, why you consider them most useful/ misleading and what have you learned by using them. It would also be interesting to hear from you if you have suggestions on how to improve those products to make them more appealing to you and your colleagues.
- Alternatively, you or your colleagues may have been involved in creating new products (weather indices, new clustering techniques, fancy evolution of EPSgrams, weather type classifications, etc.) based on ECMWF model output and you would like to share this new development with the course participants. In this case, in your poster you could include a description of the new product, a description of situations in which the products might be useful and who would benefit from using it.
- If you are more involved on the research side, you may want to show some numerical weather prediction applications of ECMWF data (for example downscaling, etc). Your presentation could include a description of the research aim and the methodology to achieve your goals using the ECMWF data.
This is a simple example of a poster made up of 6 sheet of paper format A3 (Format A1 and easy to transport on the aeroplane!). The poster has a title and the authors, describes the NMHS duties, tasks and collaboration with other organisations or meteorological offices. It shows the ECMWF data used and present a case study with some reflections on what the author of the poster has learned from it.
Please note that this is just an example, if you have other ideas they are welcomed 
