WWRP 2 5th COPS Workshop, Stuttgart-Hohenheim, March 2007 The History of WMO Weather Forecast Research 1998 50 th session of Executive Council established WWRP as a new programme that encompassed the original Programme on Very Short- and Short-range Weather Prediction Research and the Programme on Medium- and Long-range Weather Prediction Research that date back to the 1970s 2003 14 th session of WMO Congress established the THORPEX programme supported through extra-budgetary funds 2006 14 th session of CAS, 58 th session Executive Council and CAS Management Board led to the decision that WWRP and THORPEX should be implemented together under a common Strategic Plan and a new improved WWRP from 2007 onwards
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