APEC Climate Center (APCC) held a technical cooperation workshop with 4 climate prediction officers from the Sri Lanka Meteorological Department on 23-25 April 2019 at APCC headquarters in Busan, Korea.

The workshop aimed to strengthen the capacity to produce and verify downscaled seasonal climate prediction information in Sri Lanka.

This workshop was held as a response to Sri Lanka Meteorological Department’s request for APCC’s technical cooperation and support to strengthen its technical capacity in the climate sector. The Sri Lanka Meteorological Department is also currently participating in the Green Climate Fund project entitled ‘Climate Resilient Integrated Water Management Project (CRIWMP)’.

The 4 climate prediction officers from the Sri Lanka Meteorological Department were able to learn, directly from APCC researchers, how to conduct seasonal prediction in Sri Lanka utilizing the CLimate Information toolKit (CLIK, www.apcc21.org/ser/clik.do?lang=eng). 

They not only learned how to extract downscaled prediction information, which reflects the terrain and climate characteristics in Sri Lanka, but also how to verify the degree of correspondence between two pieces of information by comparing and evaluating predicted information with observations.

The participants also had the opportunity to increase their knowledge on the Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation (BSISO). This information can be used to produce Subseasonal-to-Seasonal (S2S) prediction information in Sri Lanka.