Inaugural session of the Third Pole Climate Forum (TPCF-1) and meeting of Third Pole Regional Climate Centre Network (TPRCC-Network) Task Team

General Documents

• Agenda
• Information Note

Background: the concepts of WMO Regional Climate Centres and Regional Climate Forums and their relevance to the Third Pole:

• The RCC and RCF concept in the context of the Climate Services Information System (CSIS) and their relevance to the Third Pole, Kumar Kolli
• Role of TPRCC-Network and Third Pole Climate Forum concept and content, Lijuan Ma

Overall data requirements and availability at global and regional scale:

• WMO Integrated Processing and Prediction System (WIPPS) operational infrastructure its Designated Centres for sub-seasonal to decadal climate, Eunha LIM
• Overall data requirements for the development of TPCF and TPRCC-Network Climate data, products and services, Vijay Kumar SONI
• Global Cryosphere Watch (GCW)  protocols, observations, datasets, terminology in support of the provision of operational climate, Vasily Smolyanitsky
• Hydrological data availability, requirements, and importance at national scale (example of Mongolia), Khalzan Purevdagva
• EO data products for the cold region operations, Yubao QIU
• Access and availability of data and automated IBF to support TPRCC-Network, Sanjay Sirvastava
• Introduction of New S2S Prediction Technologies and Methods in BCC-CMA, Guo Li

Recent scientific advances: techniques of climate and cryosphere monitoring and prediction in High Mountain Asia (HMA) region, incl. extreme events, hazards, and risks:

• Essential Mountain Climate Variables, Maria Shahgedanova
• Climate monitoring and seasonal summaries what are the products and how support forecasting and consensus statement are developed, Vasily Smolyanitsky

Global and Regional Perspectives

• Monitoring and seasonal outlook of large-scale circulation patterns and focus on TP region, Gaeun Kim
• Seasonal Climate Review in the Third Pole region December 2023-April 2024, WANG Pengling, MA Lijuan, LIU Yanju, WANG Dongqian
• North EurAsiaClimate Center Arctic RCC-Network, Vasily Smolyanitsky

National Perspectives

• Seasonal Climate Outlook in China for JJAS 2024, Sun Leng, Li Xiang, Zheng Zhihai
• The current climate conditions and a national outlook in Kazakhstan, Tursun Tillakarim
• Climate monitoring and seasonal forecast, Nasrina Hurosonieva
• Rainfall Temperature Outlook for JJAS 2024 Pakistan, Gohar Ali 
• Climate change in Afghanistan, Soma Popalzai 

Development of Consensus Outlook for JJAS 2024

TPCF1 Consensus Statement and outlook JJAS 2024: national and regional users, and regional partners perspectives:

• UNESCAP experience on the applications and DRR, Sanjay Sirvastava
• Progress of RA II WG-I and potential cooperation between ETs, Lijuan Shi

TPCF1 recommendations and way forward

• First Third Pole Climate Forum consensus statement