31st EWGLAM and 16th SRNWP meetings

28th -1st October 2009, Athen-Greece

agenda, presentations and posters
Monday, 28th September
8:30-9:00Registration
9:00-9:15Opening, introduction
Consortia presentations (Chair: Panagiotis Skrimizeas)
9:15-9:30 Claude Fischer ALADIN (on behalf of Jean-Francois Geleyn)
9:30-9:45 Marco Arpagaus COSMO
9:45-10:00 Jeanette Onvlee HIRLAM
10:00-10:15 Dijana Klaric LACE
10:15-10:30 Mike Bush MetOffice
10:30-11:00 Nils Wedi ECMWF
11:00-11:30coffee/TEA break
Review talks (Chair: Detlev Majewski)
11:30-12:00 Bruce Macpherson, Christoph Schraff Review topic - Impact of High-Resolution Data Assimilation
Claude Fischer Assimilation versus spin-up model configurations tested with Arome-France
12:00-12:30 Pierre Benard Review talk on dynamics
12:30-13:00 Sander Tijm Review of workshop on moist processes in Norrkoping
13:00-14:00buffet lunch
14:00-14:30 Jeanette Onvlee Link with applications: status and plans
Pierre Eckert Why do we need (high resolution) models?
14:30-15:00 Chiara Marsigli Review talk on ensemble prediction
15:00-15:30 Ulrich Schaettler Review talk on system
15:30-16:00 Alena Trojakova Summary of recent activities on surface aspects within SRNWP
16:00-16:30coffee/tea break
16:30-17:00 Clive Wilson Review of verification activities and developments
Francis Schubiger Slides of COSMO-activities in verification in 2009
17:00-18:00 Introduction to national posters (Chair: Nils Wedi)
Yong Wang: Austria, Alex Deckmyn: Belgium, Andrey Bogatchev: Bulgaria, Stjepan Ivatek-Sahdan: Croatia, Tomas Kral: Czech Republic, Bent Hansen Sass: Denmark, Aarne Mannik: Estonia, Carl Fortelius: Finland, Olivier Riviere: France, Detlev Majewski: Germany, Panagiotis Skrimizeas: Greece, Gergely Boloni: Hungary, Adriano Raspanti: Italy, Gerrit Burgers: The Netherlands, Dag Bjorge: Norway, Marek Jerczynski: Poland ALADIN group, Joanna Linkowska: Poland COSMO group, Victor Prior: Portugal, Ljiljana Dekic: Serbia, Jozef Vivoda: Slovakia, Neva Pristov: Slovenia, Bartolome Orfila: Spain, Per Dahlgren: Sweden, Philippe Steiner: Switzerland and Mike Bush: United Kingdom.
NO status report at this time: Cyprus, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Portugal, Romania (ALADIN/LACE), Romania (COSMO), Russia, Turkey.
18:00-19:00Poster viewing session
Ice breaker
Tuesday, 29th September
9:00-11:00 Data Assimilation Session (Chair: Bruce Macpherson)
9:00-9:20 Claude Fischer Recent activities and outlook on data assimilation at Météo-France and partner ALADIN countries
9:20-9:40 Christoph Schraff Studies with COSMO-DE on basic aspects in the convective scale: Gaussianity and systematic errors
9:40-10:00 Gergely Boloni Developments in data assimilation for LACE
10:00-10:20 Nils Gustafsson HARMONIE DA progress and Hybrid VAR/Ensemble DA
10:20-10:25 Kaarel Kimmel High Resolution Re-analysis for Baltic Sea Region During the 1965-2005 Period (poster introduction)
10:25-10:35 Bruce Macpherson Progress in regional data assimilation at the Met Office
10:35-11:00 Discussion (facilitator: Claude Fischer)
11:00-11:30coffee/tea break
11:30-13:30 Predictability and EPS Session (Chair: Chiara Marsigli)
11:30-12:00 Trond Iversen GLAMEPS towards operational production
12:00-12:30 Susanne Theis Ensemble experiments based on the convection-allowing model COSMO-DE
12:30-12:45 Warren Tennant Perturbations of surface fields in MOGREPS
12:45-12:50 L. Descamps, C. Labadie,
A. Joly, E. Bazile, J. Nicolau
Ensemble Prediction at Météo France (poster introduction by Olivier Riviere)
12:50-12:55 Andrea Montani COSMO-LEPS (poster introduction by Chiara Marsigli)
12:55-13:20 Discussion
13:20-14:15buffet lunch
14:15-16:15Physics Session (Chair: Bent Hansen Sass)
14:15-14:35 Neva Pristov ALARO physics developments
14:35-14:55 Federico Grazzini COSMO physics developments
14:55-15:15 Olivier Riviere ALADIN and AROME physics developments
15:15-15:35 Sander Tijm HIRLAM and HARMONIE developments
15:35-15:55 Mike Bush High resolution (horizontal and vertical) model developments at the MetOffice
15:55-16:15Discussion
16:15-16:45coffee/tea break
16:45-18:30Verification Session (Chair: Clive Wilson)
16:45-17:05 Adriano Raspanti New results in COSMO about fuzzy verification activities and Conditional Verification with VERSUS
17:05-17:25 Isabelle Sanchez Deterministic and fuzzy verification of the cloudiness of high resolution operational models
17:25-17:40 Marek Jerczynski Weighted median filters for meteorological data analysis
17:40-18:00 Clive Wilson SRNWP-V programme status
18:00-18:30 Discussion
Wednesday, 30th September
09:00-11:00Dynamics Session (Chair: Pierre Benard)
09:00-09:20 Detlev Majewski COSMO: Conservative Dynamical Core (CDC) project
09:20-09:40 Filip Vana ALADIN/LACE progress report on dynamics
09:40-10:00 Piet Termonia Status on lateral boundary conditions and initialization
10:00-10:20 Mariano Hortal Status and plans of HIRLAM"s dynamics
10:20-10:40 Terry Davies Variable resolution and lateral boundary conditions
10:40-10:45 Ishida Junichi Development of non-hydrostatic models at the JMA (poster introduction)
10:45-11:00Discussion
11:00-11:30coffee/tea break
11:30-13:30Surface Session (Chair: Alena Trojakova)
11:30-11:50 Nils Wedi (ECMWF) Recent progress in surface modelling and data assimilation at ECMWF
11:50-12:10 Ludovic Auger (ALADIN) SURFEX and EKF surface assimilation at Météo France
12:10-12:30 Bruce Macpherson (MetOffice) Recent progress in land surface modelling and data assimilation at the Met Office
12:30-12:50 Christoph Schraff (COSMO) Status overview of the COLOBOC project
12:50-13:10 Sander Tijm (HIRLAM) Recent updates of the HIRLAM surface scheme
13:10-13:30Discussion
13:30-14:30buffet lunch
14:30-16:00 System (interoperability) Session (Chair: Ulrich Schaettler)
14:30-14:45 Ulrich Schaettler COSMO activities in the Interoperability Programme
14:45-15:05 Andrey Bogatchev, Claude Fischer ALADIN activities in the Interoperability Programme
15:05-15:25 Per Dahlgren Pre-processing of GTS-BUFR data into BUFR-templates usable by HIRLAM and HARMONIE
15:25-15:45 Detlev Majewski Convection resolving COSMO implementations in Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania and Switzerland
15:45-16:00 Discussion
16:00- Excursion (Visit of the New Museum of Acropolis and workshop dinner)
Thursday, 1st October
EWGLAM final discussion, SRNWP business meeting and Advisory Committee meeting
9:00-10:00 EWGLAM final discussion (Chair: Mike Bush)
10:00-10:30 Steve Noyes EUMETNET and SRNWP: update and some thoughts from the Executive Director
10:30-11:00coffee/tea break
11:00-12:00 SRNWP Business Meeting (Chair: Andras Horanyi)
12:00Closure of the "offical" part of the meeting
12:00-13:00buffet lunch
13:00-16:00 SRNWP Advisory Committee Meeting. Participants:
Executive Director, ET chairpersons, heads of Consortia, SRNWP PMs) Marco Arpagaus COSMO, Pierre Benard SRNWP ETdyn, Gergely Boloni, SRNWP ETDA, Terry Davies MetOffice, Piet Termonia (deputising Jean-Francois Geleyn) ALADIN, Andras Horanyi SRNWP, Dijana Klaric LACE, Chiara Marsigli SRNWP ETEPS, Steve Noyes EUMETNET Executive Director, Jeanette Onvlee HIRLAM ETapp, Ulrich Schaettler SRNWP ETsystem, Sander Tijm SRNWP ETphys and ETsfc (until 14:15), Clive Wilson SRNWP-V (SRNWP-I) SRNWP ETverif