Proceedings of the Hydrometeorological Research Centre of the Russian Federation

(Proceedings of the Hydrometcentre of Russia)

The scientificl journal  "Proceedings of the Hydrometeorological research center of Russian Federation" has been periodically published since 1947.  It provides a platform for publication of the main results in the area of fundamental and applied hydrological and meteorological  research encompassing following subjects: new and improved methods of hydrometeorological forecasts with different lead-time; including forecast methods of dangerous meteorological phenomena; hydrological and  agro-meteorological forecasts; development of the atmosphere, ocean,  upper layer of the soil, models  coupled atmosphere-ocean models as well as models of  hydrological processes on the continents; scientific reviews of leading scientists in the field of numerical weather forecasts, aviation meteorology, hydrological and marine hydrological forecasts; reports of international and national scientific conferences held by the Hydrometcentre of Russia; the most significant scientific results achieved by young specialists and scientists.

The scope of the journal is Earth Sciences (code 25.00.00), with topics  of specific interests in meteorology, climatology, agro meteorology, oceanology, physics of atmosphere and hydrosphere, hydrology and water resources.

The chief editor is Roman M. Vilfand, the Honored meteorologist of the Russian Federation, doctor of technical Sciences, Director of the FSBI «The Hydrometcentre of Russia».

In 1979, the journal had been granted an International Standard Serial Number: ISSN 0371-7089.

Since 2011, the Proceedings of hydrometcentre of Russia – subscription edition ( 64291 index Catalog no edition STI bodies of the Agency "Rospechat").

The journal can be helpful for scientists, specialists, post-graduates, senior students interested in the field of the theory and practice of hydrometeorological forecasting.

Open access electronic version of the jissues can be  found using  the link:
http://method.meteorf.ru/publ/tr_en/tr_en.html

Notes:
1) The averaging period: 1961-1990.
2) Daily norms were calculated by interpolation of monthly norms.

Anomalies of geopotential height of the 500 gPa surface

Anomalies of temperature at the mean sea level

Geopotential height of the 100 gPa surface

Mean sea level pressure

Temperature at the 100 gPa level

Anomalies of mean sea level pressure

Geopotential height of the 500 gPa surface

Temperature at the 500 gPa level

Temperature at the mean sea level

Anomalies of temperature at the 500 gPa level

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

In the framework of the WMO Integrated Processing and Prediction System (WIPPS) the Hydrometcentre of Russia maintains its international commitments as:

• World Meteorological Centre "Moscow" (WMC Moscow);

• WMO Designated Centre (WIPPS-DC) "Moscow" for limited area deterministic short-range numerical weather prediction (RSMC Moscow);

• Global Producing Centre "Moscow" (GPC Moscow).

More specific information on the functions of WMCs, WIPPS DCs and GPCs is available in the Manual on the WMO Integrated Processing and Prediction System (WMO-No.485).

The North EurAsia Climate Centre (NEACC)

The NEACC was established by the Intergovernmental Council for Hydrometeorology of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) at its 18th Session held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 4-5 April 2007, with the aim to provide regional climate-related services to CIS countries.

In the WMO Regional Association VI (Europe) NEACC works as one of Long-Range Forecast nodes of the RA-VI Regional Climate Centre Network.
In the WMO Regional Association II (Asia) NEACC works as a Multifunctional Regional Climate Center.

 Projects

WMO Severe Weather Forecast Demonstration Project for the Central Asia (SWFDP-CA);

WMO Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Prediction Project (S2S);

WMO Polar Prediction Project (PPP);

APCC MME project;

WMO World Weather Information Service;

and other projects

Analysis of mean 10-days sea surface temperature
Objective analysis of the Hydrometcentre of Russia.
Updated daily about 10.00 (Moscow time).

DEFINITIONS OF METEOROLOGICAL FORECAST RANGES

1.  Nowcasting                              A description of current weather parameters and 0 -2 hours 
                                            description of forecasted weather parameters
 
2.  Very short-range weather forecasting    Up to 12 hours description of weather parameters
 
3.  Short-range weather forecasting         Beyond 12 hours and up to 72 hours description of weather parameters
 
4.  Medium-range weather forecasting        Beyond 72 hours and up to 240 hours description of weather parameters
 
5.  Extended-range weather forecasting      Beyond 10 days and up to 30 days description of weather parameters, 
                                            usually averaged and expressed as a departure from climate values for that period.
 
6.  Long-range forecasting                  From 30 days up to two years
 
6.1 Monthly outlook                         Description of averaged weather parameters expressed 
                                            as a departure (deviation, variation, anomaly) 
                                            from climate values for that month (not necessarily the coming month).
 
6.2 Three month or 90 day outlook           Description of averaged weather parameters expressed 
                                            as a departure from climate values for that 90 day period 
                                            (not necessarily the coming 90 day period).
 
6.3 Seasonal outlook                        Description of averaged weather parameters expressed 
                                            as a departure from climate values for that season.
  
Notes:
 a) In some countries, long-range forecasts are considered to be climate products
 
 b) Season has been loosely defined as Dec/Jan/Feb - Winter; Mar/Apr/May - Spring; etc...
    in the northern hemisphere. In the tropical areas seasons may have different durations. 
    Outlooks spanning several months such as multi-seasonal outlooks or tropical rainy season outlooks may be provided.
  
7.  Climate forecasting                      Beyond two years
 
7.1 Climate variability prediction           Description of the expected climate parameters associated with the variation 
                                             of inter-annual,decadal and multi-decadal climate anomalies.
7.2 Climate prediction                       Description of expected future climate including the effects 
                                             of both natural and human influences.

48-hour forecast of the regional model of the Hydrometcentre of Russia (author - V.M.Losev):
precipitation rate [mm/hour] and pressure at the sea level [hPa]

Precipitation rate [mm/hour] is characterized by the color bar at the right.
The territory of the Central Federal District is shown by red contour.

The forecast is updated twice a day by 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. of Moscow time (initial data - for 00 and 12 hr UTC correspondingly).

Hydrometeorological Research Center of Russian Federation (Hydrometcenter of Russia)

Address: 13, building 1, Bolshoy Predtechensky lane, Moscow, 123376, Russia
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 Director - Sergei V. Borsch

 Scientific supervisor - Roman M. Vilfand

 Deputy Director - Dmitry B. Kiktev

 Deputy Director - Valentina M. Khan

 Deputy Director - Yuri A. Simonov

 Scientific Secretary - Natalia A. Shestakova

Principal tasks of the Hydrometcentre of Russia:

• Investigation of the Atmosphere-Ocean-Land system for the purposes of hydrometeorological forecasting;
• Provision of the population, policy makers and national economy with operational hydrometeorological information, including warnings on adverse and disastrous weather phenomena.

Principal areas of research:

• Weather forming processes
• Modeling and monitoring of atmospheric circulation
• Modeling of the oceanic processes, investigation of the atmosphere-ocean interaction and hydrological processes on continents
• Development of hydrometeorological forecasting methods
• Development and putting into operation new information technologies

Structure

There are 18 departments and laborotaries and 11 other administrative and managing elements at Hydrometcentre of Russia.