Observatory staff lectured at Shanghai for the World Meteorological Organization

7 June 2010

At the invitation of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Mr Lee Lap-shun, Senior Scientific Officer of the Hong Kong Observatory gave a lecture on tropical cyclone forecasting in a training workshop held in Shanghai during the last week of May 2010. The objective of the workshop is to enhance the ability of weather forecasters in tropical cyclone forecasting, especially the provision of better forecast services for the World Expo 2010. More than twenty forecasters and researchers from the meteorological services of Shanghai and neighbouring cities participated in the workshop. Apart from Mr. Lee, tropical cyclone experts from other meteorological services in China, Japan and USA, as well as from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts also lectured at the workshop. The workshop stimulated enthusiastic responses and sharing of experience between the lecturers and participants.