This course focuses on the application and interpretation of severe weather alerts released by the South African Weather Service to Disaster Management structures

The 1-Day Basic Meteorological Understanding course is designed to facilitate an understanding of some basic meteorological concepts for persons without a background in meteorology.  It serves as background for understanding atmospheric processes and as well as the interpretation of weather systems in the Southern Hemisphere, and is regularly presented to new members of staff and key stakeholders.  Primarily, the course seeks to;

• Promote a basic level of meteorological and climatological understanding
• Promote an understanding of the different types of weather instruments and various weather data collection tools, as well as to
• Improve the interpretation of SAWS products

The course included presentations on the following areas of focus;

• The structure and composition of the atmosphere
• The characteristics of surface and upper air circulation
• The classification of different cloud types and precipitation associated with them
• Understand how the meteorological data information is collected, and how it is used in the compilation of a weather forecast, and
• Interpretation of the weather forecast issued by the Weather Service.

CoComm 2018

The Eumetsat Satellite workshop aims to cover basic satellite image interpretation as well as to introduce new techniques in visualizing and manipulating satellite data. This years' course will be more practical and "hands on". the Online phase will run from the 13th October until the 19th November. The workshop itself will be hosted in Pretoria, South Africa, from the 1st to the 5th December 2014.  

An Introductory course on Coastal Meteorology aimed at those that seek to understand the characteristic nature of the coastal environment and its weather.  In order to bring about the optimal and harmonious use of this resource by the vast cross-section of users, there needs to be a sound understanding of it, and the basic meteorological and oceanographic processes that take place within it.

The course will assist the participants in understanding;

• circulation within the coastal ocean,
• coastal atmospheric circulation (including the marine atmospheric boundary layer), as well as 
• ocean-atmosphere interaction processes.

It is hoped that at the end of this course, participants will have attained an enhanced knowledge & understanding of the coastal zone to support strategy and decision-making.  More specifically, participants are expected to gave gained:

• An enhanced knowledge of meteorological processes specific to the coastal zone,
• Improved understanding of the impact of meteorological events on the coastal zone

A platform created for the WMO RA1 Marine Forecaster interaction and capacity building

Meteorological basics for industry

This is a course focusing on the continuous training needs of the SAWS weather forecasters. the course contains material dealing with NWP, Satellite, Forecasting and Radar training.

The course format includes online quizzes, tasks and discussion forums. All forecasters are welcome to partake in the course.

This course is aimed at testing your current satellite knowledge and being able to ask satellite meteorology-related questions. feel free to share interesting cases as well and help each other (and me) to learn.

This is a Pre Assessment to identify possible knowledge gaps

Weather SMART training for weather SMART presenters

This is a short course on small portion (Tropical Cyclones) of Tropical Meteorology

Upper air data and coded messages

WMO/ICAO Aeronautical Meteorological Observer (AMO) Competency Criteria

1. Monitor continuously the weather situation.

2. Observe and record aeronautical meteorological phenomena and parameters.

3. Ensure the quality of the performance of systems and of meteorological information.

4. Communicate meteorological information to internal and external users.

This module looks at the general and scientific definitions of temperature as used in Meteorology. We also look at different instuments used to measure temperature along with their means of operation, how the temperature varies in one day as well as its impacts on atmospheric stability.

A basic refresher module on the interpretation of wind roses for use by Meteorological Technicians.

A brief online learning module on fog and mist

Interpretation of Tephigrams from an observation aspect

This topic goes through the definition, formation, movement and weather impacts of a coastal low over the coast of South Africa.

This course is presented within the RTC Pretoria as part of the Post Graduate Certificate: Weather Forecasting

It has 2 components: A Theory component (5 days) and a practical component  (6 months)

The 5 specific outcomes of the Aeronautical Meteorological Forecasters (AMF) course are:

1. Analyse and monitor continuously the weather situation.

2. Forecast aeronautical meteorological phenomena and parameters.

3. Warn of hazardous phenomena.

4. Ensure the quality of meteorological information and services.

5. Communicate meteorological information to internal and external users.

Complete a forecasting based research project

Decode and interpret surface observational weather data and integrate data with knowledge on Climate, Geography and topography of South Africa

Integrating and interpretation of all observational and remotely sensed data

This course will focus on the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) Satellite and its products. This satellite provides South Africa with the best Geo-Stationary satellite imagery available. The MSG system is established under cooperation between EUMETSAT and the European Space Agency (ESA), to ensure the continuity of meteorological observations from geostationary orbit. Software and data for the course will be obtained directly from Eumetsat. 

The following concepts will be covered in the course:

•	Basics of remote Sensing
•	Introduction to all 12 Channels of the MSG satellite
•	Introduction to Channel difference and Brightness Temperature Differences (BTD)
•	Introduction to channel combinations (RGB)
•	Basic cloud type identification
•	Accessing Data
•	Introduction to data manipulation using appropriate software

This is the commercial AMF course for SADC delivered to: 

Mozambique participants: Oct 2018

Lesotho participants: Oct/Nov 2019

Namibia participants: Oct 2019

This survey is aimed at gathering data on the operational use of the FFG products in the SAWS forecasting offices.

A needs analysis survey to determine training needs for Aviation Weather Forecasters

This is a survey for the supervisors of the newly employed forecasters

This is a survey for the supervisors of the newly employed forecasters

This is a survey to establish the regional forecasting training needs in the SADC region

This course provides a brief introduction to the concepts of Total Quality Management