37th EWGLAM and 22st SRNWP Meeting

5-8 Oct. 2015, Belgrade-Serbia

Agenda, presentations and posters

Monday, 5th October
08:30-09:00Registration and Poster set-up
09:00-09:10 Opening by the Director of RHMS of Serbia, Professor Jugoslav Nikolic
09:10-09:15 NWP Programme Manager C-SRNWP membership changes, introduction of "newcomers", introduction to the meeting's programme ,
09:15-09:30 Dick Blaauboer Developments in EUMETNET: new Projects, preparation of new Programme Phase (2018-2022); EUMETNET Forecasting Programme
Consortia Presentations (chair: Bruce Macpherson)
09:30-09:45 Piet Termonia ALADIN
09:45-10:00 Michal Ziemianski COSMO
10:00-10:15 Jeanette Onvlee HIRLAM
10:15-10:30 Yong Wang LACE
10:30-10:45 Mike Bush Met Office
10:45-11:15coffee break
11:15-11:30 Slobodan Nickovic SEEVCCNWP
11:30-12:00 Richard Forbes ECMWF
12:00-12:20 WMO presentation, Milan Dacic and Abdoulaye Harou
12:20-13:20lunch break
Review talks (chair: Philippe Steiner)
13:20-13:50 Ekaterina Kurzeneva Surface Aspects: COST Action ES1404 and Lake2015 Workshop: cooperation for snow and lakes in NWP
13:50-14:20 Jean-François Caron Data Assimilation: Ensemble-Variational Data Assimilation at Environment Canada
14:20-14:50 Predictability and EPS
Jose A. Garcia-Moya Zapata SRNWP EPS Phase II
Andrea Montani Intercomparison of the ensembles of the TIGGE-LAM archive
14:50-15:20 Pierre Eckert Applications: Fog forecasting: synoptical methods, aerosols and 1D models
15:20-15:40coffee break
15:40-15:55 Zavisa Janjic NMMB model
15:55-16:25Introductory short talks of observer countries
16:50-18:20 Open discussion about modelling activities and plans in SEEVCCC and Eastern European countries
16:25-16:50 Poster Session (chair: Michal Ziemianski)
Introduction to posters
Japan: Jun-ichi Ishida, Austria: Florian Meier, Armenia: Ninel Zakaryan, Albania: Metodi Marku, Belgium: Alex Deckmyn, Bulgaria: Tsenova Boryana, Croatia: Martina Tudor, Czech Republic: Alena Trojakov, Denmark: Bent Hansen Sass, Finnland: Sami Niemela, France: Patricia Pottier, Germany: Detlev Majewski, Georgia: Nato Kutaladze, Greece: Flora Gofa, Hungary: Balázs Szintai, Italy: Francesca Marcucci, Lebanon: Wissam Abdallah and Maps, Netherlands: Sander Tijm, Montenegro: Angel Marcev, Morocco: Hassan Haddouch, Norway: Jorn Kristiansen, Poland ALADIN: Marek Jercynski, Poland COSMO: Joanna Linkowska, Portugal: Maria Monteiro, Romania ALADIN: Simona Tascu, Romania COSMO: Cosmin Barbu, Russia: Gdaly Rivin and Inna Rozinkina, Serbia: Ljiljana Dekiæ, Slovakia: Maria Derkova, Slovenia: Neva Pristov, Spain: Javier Calvo, Sweden: Heiner Körnich, Switzerland: Philippe Steiner, Turkey: Alper Güser, Ukraine: Vitalii Shpyg and United Kingdom: Mike Bush.
18:20-19:00Icebreaker and poster viewing session
19:00-20:00Expert Team on Predictability meeting
Tuesday, 6th October
Thematic sessions of Expert Teams: predictability, links with applications, dynamics, system and verification
Session on predictability (chair: José Antonio Garcia-Moya)
08:30-08:50 Inger-Lise Frogner New developments in HarmonEPS and GLAMEPS
08:50-09:10 Susanna Hagelin MOGREPS-UK: new developments and future plans
09:10-09:30 Martin Bellus Recent activities on LAM-EPS in LACE
09:30-09:50 Chiara Marsigli Ensemble activities in the COSMO Consortium
09:50-10:10 Robert Osinski Recent MeteoFrance work on Arome-EPS
10:10-10:15 José Antonio Garcia-Moya Strategy for Lateral Boundary Conditions in mesoscale EPS (poster)
105-10:25discussions
10:25-10:50coffee break
Session on upper-air physics (chair: Sander Tijm)
10:50-11:10 François Bouyssel Recent developments on fog modelling at Météo-France
11:10-11:30 Richard Forbes Recent developments in forecasting high impact surface-weather in the ECMWF model (heavy rain, freezing rain and fog)
11:30-11:50 Matthias Raschendorfer Current activities in COSMO physics
11:50-12:10 Neva Pristov ALARO Physics Developments
12:10-12:20discussion
12:20-13:20lunch break
Session on dynamics and lateral boundary conditions and system aspects (chair: Piet Termonia)
13:20-13:40 Petra Smolikova Dynamics in LACE
13:40-14:00 Michael Baldauf Review about the current dynamical core and other numerics developments in the COSMO model
14:00-14:20 Nils Wedi, Richard Forbes The modelling infrastructure and strategy at ECMWF: Recent advances ∓ future challenges
14:20-14:40 Mariano Hortal Latest developments in dynamics in HIRLAM
14:40-15:00 Philippe Steiner Co-designing a system for operational numerical weather prediction on GPU based hardware
15:00-15:10discussion
15:10-15:40coffee break
Session on verification (chair: Ulf Andrae)
15:40-16:00 Flora Gofa Verification in COSMO
16:00-16:20 Marielle Amodei, Isabelle Sanchez Evaluation of the new AROME-PI model for nowcasting purpose at Météo-France
16:20-16:40 Bojan Kašiæ Utilisation of Meteosat SEVIRI data in the evaluation of NMMB operational numerical model forecast
16:40-17:00 Gema Morales, Javier Calvo Verification of Low Clouds and Fog using a Spatial Verification Method
17:00-17:20 Christoph Zingerle HARP activities
17:20-17:25 Robert Osinski Verification of modeled radar reflectivities by the mesoscale ensemble forecast model PEAROME (poster)
17:25-17:35discussion
17:50-19:50ALADIN LTM meeting
Wednesday, 7th October
Thematic sessions of Expert Teams: data assimilation, surface aspects
Session on data assimilation (chair: Jean-Francois Caron)
08:40-08:55 Jelena Bojarova Data assimilation on convective scales in HIRLAM-B: the status and the challenges
08:55-09:10 Christoph Schraff Recent results in the KENDA project
09:10-09:25 Claude Fischer Recent results with the regional Arome-France data assimilation and forecast system
09:25-09:40 Mate Mile ALARO and AROME DA systems in LACE consortia
09:40-09:55 Bruce Macpherson Met Office convective scale data assimilation developments
09:55-10:10 Cisco de Bruijn Wind measurements from airborne platforms and their impact on data assimilation in HARMONIE
10:10-10:15 Michael Tsyrulnikov and Alexander Rakitko Hierarchical Bayes Ensemble Kalman Filter (poster)
105-10:30discussion
10:30-11:00coffee break
Session on surface aspects (chair: Laura Rontu)
11:00-11:20 Christoph Schraff, Jean-Marie Bettems Soil and surface activities in the COSMO consortium
11:20-11:40 Ekaterina Kurzeneva Surface aspects in HIRLAM
11:40-11:50discussions
11:50-12:40Lunch
12:40-22:00Excursion and dinner
Thursday, 8th October
Thematic sessions of Expert Teams: upper air physics, EWGLAM final discussion, SRNWP business meeting and SRNWP Advisory Committee meeting
Session on link with applications (chair: Jeanette Onvlee)
09:00-09:20 Goran Pejanovic Development and Research on Climate Change
Goran Pejanovic and Slobodan Nickovic Use of the NMM model as a driver for hydrology and aerosol-cloud modelling applications
09:20-09:40 Yong Wang Seamless probabilistic forecasts for civil protection.
09:40-10:00 Mike Bush Fog Forecasting at Heathrow
10:00-10:20 G.daly Rivin, Inna Rozinkina Capabilities of the COSMO-Ru system to predict low visibility events in Sochi region during winter period.
10:20-10:30discussion
10:30-11:00coffee break
11:00-11:30 EWGLAM final discussion (chair: Balázs Szintai)
11:30-12:00 SRNWP business meeting
Balázs Szintai actual coordination activities within C-SRNWP
Slobodan Nickovic SEECOP - Governance and organization
12:00Closure of the "official" part of the meeting
12:00-13:00lunch break
13:00-14:00SRNWP Advisory Expert Team Meeting
14:00-14:30coffee break
14:30-15:30SRNWP Advisory Expert Team Meeting