36th EWGLAM and 21st SRNWP Meeting

29 Sep-2 Oct Offenbach Germany

Agenda, presentations and posters

Monday, 29th September
08:30-09:00Registration and Poster set-up
09:00-09:10 Opening by the President of DWD, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Adrian
09:10-09:15 NWP Programme Manager C-SRNWP membership changes, introduction of "newcomers", introduction to the meeting's programme and Info slides
Consortia Presentations (chair: Detlev Majewski)
09:15-09:30 Piet Termonia ALADIN
09:30-09:45 Michal Ziemianski COSMO
09:45-10:00 Jeanette Onvlee HIRLAM
10:00-10:15 Yong Wang LACE
10:15-10:30 Mike Bush Met Office
10:30-11:00 Martin Leutbecher ECMWF
11:00-11:30coffee break
Review talks (chair: Claude Fischer)
11:30-12:00 Vanessa Stauch Link with Applications: Weather information tailored to the needs of the renewable energy sector
12:00-12:30 Mathieu Nuret Data Assimilation: HyMeX field campaign and AROME re-analysis and Evaluation of the 1st AROME-WMED reanalysis of HYMEX-SOP1, plans for the 2nd AROME-WMED reanalysis
12:30-13:30lunch break
13:30-14:00 Chiara Marsigli Predictability and EPS: Experiments related to the extension of the ECMWF BC project to EPS LBCs
14:00-14:30 Laura Rontu Surface Aspects: Representation of snow in NWP and Cloud cover over Lake Ladoga
14:30-15:00 Clive Wilson Verification: Verification issues with Convective permitting models and ensembles and Mesoscale Verification Inter-Comparison over Complex Terrain (MesoVICT)
15:00-15:30coffee break
Poster Session (chair: Bruce Macpherson)
15:30-17:00 Introduction to posters
Japan: Jun-ichi Ishida, Ukraine: Shpyg Vitalii, Austria: Christoph Witmann, Belgium: Alex Deckmyn, Bulgaria: Tsenova Boryana, Croatia: Alica Bajic, Czech Republic: Radmila Brozkova, Denmark: Bent Hansen Sass, Finnland: Sami Niemela, France: Patricia Pottier, Germany: Detlev Majewski, Hungary: Gergely Bölöni, Israel: Yoaov Levi, Netherlands: Sander Tijm, Norway: Jorn Kristiansen, Poland ALADIN: Marek Jercynski, Poland COSMO: Joanna Linkowska, Portugal: Nuno Moreira, Romania: Alexandra Craciun, Russia: Rivin Gdaly and Inna Rozinkina, Slovakia: Maria Derkova, Slovenia: Neva Pristov, Spain: Javier Calvo, Sweden: Heiner Körnich, Switzerland: Philippe Steiner, Turkey: Alper Güser and United
Kingdom: Mike Bush
Michael Tsyrulnikov and A. Rakitko A Hierarchical Bayes based approach to Ensemble-Variational Data Assimilation
Richard Swinbank, Tiziana Paccagnella
and Richard Mladek
TIGEE-LAM archive and Poster intro
17:00-18:00Icebreaker and poster viewing session
Tuesday, 30th September
Thematic sessions of Expert Teams: link with applications, dynamics, upper-air physics, verification
Session on link with applications: renewable energy (chair: Jeanette Onvlee)
09:00-09:20 Richard Keane Producing probabilistic weather forecasts for renewable energy applications
09:20-09:40 Kristian Horvath Weather Intelligence for Wind Energy in Complex Terrain of Croatia
09:40-10:00 Heiner Körnich Aspects of winter climate for wind energy production (icing)
10:00-10:20 Jose Luis Casado Solar power forecasting in Spain: customer needs and recent work done in AEMET
10:20-10:50coffee break
Session on link with applications - renewable energy (chair: Pierre Eckert)
10:50-11:10 Carmen Kõhler and Annika Schomburg Improving solar radiation in NWP models (see the dust animation )
11:10-11:30 Rooholah Azad (Norway) NWP in hydropowerResearch for operations at Met Norway
11:30-11:50 Clive Wilson Wind resources: NWP and fine resolution models, variability and trends
11:50-12:10discussion
12:10-13:10lunch break
Session on dynamics and lateral boundary conditions (chair: Piet Termonia)
13:10-13:30 Mohamed Zerroukat The Met Office dynamical core
13:30-13:50 Daniel Klocke LES-type simulations with the new ICON modelling framework
13:50-14:10 Martin Leutbecher (on behalf of Nils Wedi) Development of the ECMWF dynamical core
14:10-14:30 Michael Baldauf Current dynamical core activities in the COSMO model
14:30-14:50 Petra Smolikova Last developments in LACE dynamics
14:50-15:00discussion
15:00-15:20coffee break
Session on upper-air physics (chair: Sander Tijm)
15:20-15:40 Yves Bouteloup Evolution of Météo-France operational models
15:40-16:00 Radmila Brozkova and Neva Pristov : ALARO Physics Developments
16:00-16:20 Matthias Raschendorfer Recent developments in COSMO physics
16:20-16:40 Mike Bush Met Office physics developments
16:40-16:50discussion
Session on verification (chair: Clive Wilson)
16:50-17:00 Christoph Zingerle HARP: Developments in the Hirlam-Aladin verification project
17:00-17:20 Clive Wilson (on behalf of Rebecca Stretton) Lightning forecasts verification
17:20-17:40 Gdaly Rivin, Inna Rozinkina,
Elena Astachova and Andrea Montani
Operational meteorological support to the Winter Olympic Games Sochi 2014 and findings from the COSMO priority project CORSO
170-17:50discussion
18:00-20:00ALADIN LTM meeting
Wednesday, 1st October
Thematic sessions of Expert Teams: data assimilation, predictability
Session on data assimilation (chair: Maria Derkova)
08:40-09:00 Christoph Schraff Status of the KENDA project
09:00-09:20 Jelena Bojarova Overview of data assimilation activities in HIRLAM
09:20-09:40 Claude Fischer Evolution in DA suites at MF: Arpége and Arome-France
09:40-10:00 Mate Mile Recent Developments within LACE Data Assimilation Activities
10:00-10:20 Bruce Macpherson Met Office convective scale data assimilation developments
10:20-10:30discussion
10:30-11:00coffee break
Session on predictability (chair: Susanne Theis)
11:00-11:20 Theresa Schellander-Gorgas LAM-EPS in LACE: Strategies for research and application
11:20-11:40 Chiara Marsigli Ensemble developments in COSMO
11:40-12:00 Richard Swinbank and Susanna Hagelin Developments to the high-resolution UK ensemble, MOGREPS-UK
12:00-12:20 Inger-Lise Frogner GLAMEPS and HarmonEPS for Sochi Olympics
12:20-12:40 Alex Deckmyn GLAMEPS
12:40-12:50discussions
12:50-14:00lunch break
14:00-22:00Excursion and dinner
Thursday, 2nd October
Thematic sessions of Expert Teams: surface aspects, system aspects, EWGLAM final discussion SRNWP business meeting and SRNWP Advisory Committee meeting
Session on surface and system aspects (chair: Laura Rontu)
09:00-09:20 Ekaterina Kourzeneva HIRLAM land surface developments
09:20-09:40 Jürgen Helmert Review of the COSMO land-surface activities
09:40-10:00 Massimo Milelli Reference Version and Implementation in COSMO
10:00-10:10discussion
10:10-10:40coffee break
10:40-11:10 chair: Gergely Bölöni EWGLAM final discussion
11:10-12:10 SRNWP business meeting
Gergely Bölöni actual coordination activities within C-SRNWP (15 minutes)
Jeanette Onvlee feedback and discussion on the initiative for coordinating the use of geospatial data (25 minutes including discussions)
Bartolomé Orfila News on the SRNWP EPS project (15 minutes)
12:10Closure of the "official" part of the meeting
12:10-13:10lunch break
13:10-14:30SRNWP Advisory Expert Team Meeting