32nd EWGLAM and 17th SRNWP meetings

4th - 7th October 2010, Exeter-United Kingdom

agenda, presentations and posters
Monday, 4th October
08:30-09:00Registration and Poster set-up
09:00-09:10 Opening, introduction. Alan Dickinson, Director of Technology
09:10-09:15 SRNWP Programme Manager, Andras Horanyi - summary of SRNWP membership changes introduction of "newcomers", main structure of the programme
Consortia presentations, chair: Bruce Macpherson
09:15-09:30 Jean-Francois Geleyn ALADIN consortium R&D progress
09:30-09:45 Marco Arpagaus COSMO status report
09:45-10:00 Jeanette Onvlee HIRLAM status highlights and challenges
10:00-10:15 Dijana Klaric LACE status report
10:15-10:30 Mike Bush Met Office model developments
10:30-11:00 Nils Wedi ECMWF overview
11:00-11:30tea/coffee break
Review talks, chair: Detlev Majewski
11:30-12:00 Nils Gustafsson Review talk on data assimilation - Overview of EUCOS
12:00-12:30 Jean-François Mahfouf Review talk on surface issues
12:30-13:00 Sander Tijm Review talk on physics
13:00-14:00lunch break
14:00-14:15 Jeanette Onvlee Review talk on link with applications
14:15-14:45 Chiara Marsigli Review talk on predictability
14:45-15:15 Terry Davies Review talk on dynamics 1st ,
M. Baldauf and 2nd
15:15-15:45tea/coffee break
15:45-16:15 Ulrich Schaettler Review talk on system aspects
Rachel North Review talk on SRNWP Interoperability programme. SRNWP-I Programme Manager
16:15-16:45 Clive Wilson Review talk on SRNWP-verification programme SRNWP-V Programme Manager
16:45-17:00 Clive Wilson Discussion of SRNWP-V results & their publication
Posters, chair: Philippe Steiner, Introduction to national posters
17:00-18:00 Austria: Yong Wang, Belgium: Alex Deckmyn, Croatia: Tomislav Kovacic, Czech Republic: Alena Trojakova, Denmark: Bent Sass, Finland: Carl Fortelius 1st & 2nd, France: Yann Seity, Germany: Detlev Majewski 1st & 2nd, Greece: Panagiotis Skrimizeas, Hungary: Gergely Boloni, The Netherlands: Gerrit Burgers, Norway: Dag Bjorge 1st & 2nd, Poland (Warsaw): Joanna Linkowska, Poland (Krakow): Marek Jerczynski, Romania: Doina Banciu, Slovakia: Richard Habrovsky, Slovenia: Neva Pristov, Spain: Bartolomé Orfila, Sweden: Lars Meuller, Switzerland: Philippe Steiner 1st & 2nd, Turkey: Ersin Kucukkaraca, UK: Jorge Bornemann 1st & 2nd
18:00-19:00Poster session
18:00-19:00Icebreaker
Tuesday, 5th October
09:00-10:00 Session on system (interoperability) including discussion (Chair: Ulrich Schaettler)
09:00-09:20 Progress of each consortium in the Interoperability Programme: one speaker per consortium
09:20-09:35 Glenn Greed Testing code changes for the Met Office UM
09:35-09:50 Ulrich Schaettler Preparing the COSMO-Model for future HPC Architectures
09:50-10:00Discussion
10:00-10:30Session on verification (Chair: Clive Wilson)
10:00-10:15 Marco Arpagaus PPT1 New developments in verification in COSMO
Francis Schubiger 2nd presentation
10:15-10:30 Marion Mittermaier,
Clare Bysouth, Ric Crocker
Identifying "best" forecasts in EPS for Strategic Intervention
10:30-11:00tea/coffee break
11:00-13:00 Session on link with applications including discussion (Chair: Jeanette Onvlee)
11:00-11:20 Pierre Eckert Stratified verification of high resolution models and guidelines to forecasters
11:20-11:40 Yong Wang INCA-CE: the challenge of severe weather warnings. Iceland Eyjafjallajökull volcano event
11:40-12:00 Theodór Freyr Hervarsson The Eyjafjallajökull eruption and its aftermath: the monitoring and guidance process
12:00-12:20 Detlev Majewski Modelling the volcanic ash episode: experiences with COSMO-ART
12:20-12:40 Matthew Hort Volcanic ash forecasting and warning experiences at MetOffice and VAAC
12:40-13:00Discussion
13:00-14:00lunch break
14:00-16:00 Session on upper air physics including discussion (Chair Bent Hansen Sass)
14:00-14:20 Neva Pristov ALARO physics developments
14:20-14:40 Federico Grazzini Diagnostic and physics developments in COSMO
14:40-15:00 Sander Tijm HIRLAM and HARMONIE physics developments
15:00-15:25 Valery Masson Improvements of physics in ARPEGE ALADIN and AROME
15:25-15:50 Mike Bush Unified Model physics developments
15:50-16:00Discussion
16:00-16:30tea/coffee break
16:30-18:30 Session on data assimilation including discussion (Chair: Bruce Macpherson)
16:30-16:45 Christoph Schraff Review of the COSMO Data Assimilation Activities and KENDA project
16:45-17:00 Claude Fischer Recent developments in ARPEGE and AROME data assimilation
17:00-17:15 Gergely Bölöni Overview of LACE data assimilation activities
17:15-17:20 Nils Gustafsson Poster introduction - A hybrid variational ensemble data assimilation for HIRLAM
17:20-17:35 Mikhail Tsyrulnikov Challenges and issues of meso-scale data assimilation for Sochi-2014 Winter Olympics
17:35-17:50 Francois Montagner Eumetsat short term plans for improving services to NWP
17:50-18:10 Andras Horanyi Observations Roadmap
18:10-18:30Discussion
Wednesday, 6th October
09:00-10:30 Session on dynamics and lateral boundary conditions including discussion (Chair: Filip Vana )
09:00-09:20 Terry Davies Grid-scale forcing and its effect on larger scales in environmental flows
09:40-10:00 Mariano Hortal HIRLAM-B dynamics plans
10:00-10:05 Nils Wedi Non-hydrostatic modelling on the sphere
10:05-10:30 Junichi Ishida Poster introduction
10:45-11:00Discussion
10:30-11:00tea/coffee break
11:00-13:00 Session on predictability including discussion (Chair: Chiara Marsigli)
11:00-11:20 Claude Fisher Ensemble activities at Meteo-France
11:20-11:40 Trond Iversen Results from GLAMEPS and other EPS-activities in HIRLAM
11:40-12:00 Susanne Theis Current Status of COSMO-DE-EPS
12:00-12:20 Yong Wang Evaluation of the added values of LAMEPS
12:20-12:40 Warren Tennant MOGREPS status and activities
12:40-13:00Discussion
13:00-14:00lunch break
14:00-23:00 Excursion to Dartmouth & Dinner at Dartington Hall
Thursday, 7th October
09:00-11:00 Session on surface including discussion (Chair: Alena Trojakova)
09:00-09:20 Jean-François Mahfouf Developments on soil analysis within SURFEX for AROME
09:20-09:40 Christoph Schraff Final report on the COLOBOC project
09:40-10:00 Bruce Macpherson Assimilation of ASCAT soil wetness
10:00-10:20 Sander Tijm HIRLAM and HIRLAM-SURFEX surface developments
10:20-10:40 Jean-François Mahfouf Land surface modelling and data assimilation at ECMWF
10:40-10:50 Sander Tijm A few thoughts about the definition of weather parameters with surface schemes including tiles
10:50-11:00 Discussion
11:00-11:30tea/coffee break
11:30-12:00 Chair: Marco Arpagaus EWGLAM final discussion and minutes
12:00-13:00 Chair: Andras Horanyi SRNWP business meeting and minutes
13:00Closure of the "official" part of the meeting
13:00-14:00lunch break
14:00-15:30 SRNWP Advisory Committee Meeting (for the ET chairpersons and for heads of Consortia) Room FG4
15:30-16:00tea/coffee break
16:00-17:00SRNWP Advisory Committee Meeting (continuation)