The primary objective is to coordinate weather modeling and verification with a view to enhance the capacity of the UNMA to generate and evaluate weather outlook by providing more detailed operational forecasts and improve accuracy.

The tasks include:

• Enhance operational forecasters’ capacity in weather modeling and verification.
  
  
• Develop and run empirical statistical and dynamical models.
  
  
• Downscaling global forecasts to regional/national level that takes into account the local climatology
  
  
• Generate short-range weather forecasts
  
  
• Assessment and quantification of the relationship between forecasts and observations.
  
  
• Enhance sub-regional scientific collaboration in NWP activities through joint projects.