Key Outcomes from the First Summit included:

Keeping a strong link between YOPP and MOSAiC despite a delay in the start date for MOSAiC, extending YOPP to include the MOSAIC campaign in addition to three IOPs;

Increasing the visibility of YOPP activities in the Southern Hemisphere;

An offer from Met Norway to host the YOPP Data Portal to ensure that access to YOPP observations would be part of the PPP/YOPP legacy;

Including Intensive Observing Periods (IOPs) as part of the YOPP Core Phase;

Agreement that user engagement and associated social science studies are necessary to serve the YOPP objectives;

Encouraging real-time verification against GTS observations during YOPP by exploiting existing resources/facilities already available in major operational centers;

Assessing the impacts of YOPP enhanced prediction from the polar regions to mid-latitudes, uncertainty associated with observations and analyses should be accounted for in verification practices, and compared with model uncertainties;

Balance the emphasis in YOPP research on fundamental polar-non polar latitude process linkages with applications and analyses driven by specific user problems and prediction requirements;

More emphasis on microphysics and radiation modelling activities, since these play a key role for the YOPP;

Modellers should strive to archive model tendencies during IOPs for detailed diagnostic studies;

That effective cross-disciplinary communication among scientists would be key to make the Year of Polar Prediction effective and successful;

An endorsement process should be developed to recognise studies that will support YOPP objectives.

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