42nd EWGLAM and 27th SRNWP Meeting

Teleconference, 28 Sep-2 Oct

Participants

Duygu Aktaş, Clément Albergel, Ulf Andrae, Elena Astakhova, Vanessa Bachmann, Michael Baldauf, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Geoffrey Bessardon, Dick Blaauboer, Mihaela Bogdan, François Bouttier, Pierre Brousseau, Anastasia Bundel, Mike Bush, Alfons Callado-Pallarès, Javier Calvo, Yelis Cengiz, Ines Maria Luisa Cerenzia, Colm Clancy, Tiziana Comito, Maria Cortès, Alexandra Craciun, Alex Deckmyn, Lesley De Cruz, Ljiljana Dekic, Maria Derkova, Gareth Dow, Alina Dumitru, Reima Eresmaa, Charles Ewen, James Fannon, Henrik Feddersen, Klara Finkele, Anke Finnenkoetter, Claude Fischer, Noel Fitzpatrick, Carl Fortelius, Inger-Lise Frogner, Gebhardt, Emily Gleeson, Flora Gofa, Susanna Hagelin, Alan Hally, Karoliina Hämäläinen, Eoghan Harney, Dáire Healy, Dirk Heizenreder, Jürgen Helmert, Kristian Horvath, Katalin Javorne-Radnoczi, Markku Kangas, Endi Keresturi, Heiner Körnich, Jørn Kristiansen, Ekaterina Kurzeneva, Nuno Lopes, Bruce Macpherson, Detlev Majewski, Francesca Marcucci, Chiara Marsigli, Ewa McAufield, Florian Meier, Marco Milan, Massimo Milelli, Dmitrii Mironov, Marion Mittermaier, Maria Monteiro, Masami Narita, Kristian Pagh Nielsen, Jeanette Onvlee, Andrey Ovsyannikov, Matthieu Plu, Aurore Porson, Patricia Pottier, David Quintero Plaza, Roger Randriamampianina, Laure Raynaud, Patrick Samuelsson, Bent Sass, Emine Say, Siham Sbii, Phillip Scheffknecht, Linda Schlemmer, Maurice Schmeits, David Schönach, Christoph Schraff, Jan-Peter Schulz, Yann Seity, Pilvi Siljamo, David Simonin, Geert Smet, Petra Smolíková, Antonio Stanešić, Roel Stappers, Philippe Steiner, Benedikt Strajnar, Szepszo, Balazs Szintai, Simona Tascu, Piet Termonia, Sander Tijm, Lucio Torrisi, Trojakova, Robert Tubbs, Martina Tudor, Duygu Üstüner, Stéphane Vannitsem, Saji Varghese, Jasmin Vural, Eoin Walsh, Yong Wang, Clemens Wastl, Mark Weeks, Kirien Whan, Eoin Whelan, Christoph Wittmann, Xiaohua Yang, Christoph Zingerle, Martin Leutbecher, Helga Tóth, Viktória Homonnai, Oldrich Spaniel, Daniel Gellens, Christine Johnson, Patrick Le Moigne, Almut Gassmann, Valeria Garbero, Marco Arpagaus, Anne Mccabe, Ana Mihalović, Humphrey Lean, Jonathan Wilkinson, Paola Mercogliano, Martin Lange, Enrico Minguzzi, Virginia Poli, Martin Imrišek, Yoav Levi, Cristina Charlton-Perez, Eric Petermann, Adam Clark, Brett Roberts, Matthias Raschendorfer, Tara Jensen, Slobodan Nickovic, Bojan Cvetkovic, Ivar Ansper, Joanna Linkowska, Bogdan Bochenek, Gabriel Stachura, Piotr Sekula, Małgorzata Szczęch-Gajewska, Gdaly Rivin, Inna Rozinkina, Mikhail Tsyrulnikov, Kasper Hintz, Nigel Roberts, Jacqueline Sugier, Gernot Geppert, Boryana Tsenova, Dimitra Boucouvala, Neva Pristov, Daan Degrauwe, Wafa Khalfaoui and Sreerekha Thonipparambil.

1. Agenda and Presentations

Plenary Session on Data Assimilation (chair: Bruce Macpherson)
08:30-09:00BlueJeans connection opened
09:00-09:10Opening: Daniel Gellens, Director of RMI
09:10-09:15 Balázs Szintai introduction to the meeting's programme
Consortia Presentations (chair: Detlev Majewski)
09:15-09:30 Piet Termonia ALADIN
09:30-09:45 Martina Tudor LACE
09:45-10:00 Jeanette Onvlee HIRLAM
10:00-10:15 Dmitrii Mironov COSMO
10:15-10:30 Mike Bush Met Office
10:30-10:45 Slobodan Nickovic SEECOP
10:45-11:15coffee break
11:15-11:45 Gianpaolo Balsamo ECMWF
Review talks (chair: Dmitrii Mironov)
11:45-12:15 Clément Albergel Surface aspects: Use of spatial and in situ Earth Observations in Land Surface Modelling
12:15-12:45 Almut Gassmann Dynamics: Dynamical core development considerations
12:45-14:00lunch break
14:00-14:30 Jonathan Wilkinson Upper-air physics: Lightning Parametrization and forecasting developments in Met Office LAMs
14:30-15:00 Martin Leutbecher Predictability: Progress in ensemble forecasting and verification at ECMWF
15:00-15:30 Tara Jensen Verification: Advancing Limited Area Model Verification and Diagnostics Capability through the Enhanced Model Evaluation Tools (METplus)
15:30-15:45coffee break
EUMETNET related talks (chair: Balázs Szintai)
15:45-16:00 Eric Petermann EUMETNET overview
16:00-16:15 Dick Blaauboer Developments in EUMETNET: New Programme Phase (2019-2023); EUMETNET Forecasting Capability Area
16:15-16:30 Balázs Szintai Actual coordination activities within C-SRNWP
16:30-16:45 Sreerekha Thonipparambil EUMETSAT Next Generation Satellites: Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) and European Polar System-Second Generation (EPS-SG)
Tuesday, 29th September
09:00-09:20 Christoph Schraff Recent Developments in KENDA
09:20-09:40 Roger Randriamampianina Hirlam upper-air data assimilation: progress report
09:40-10:00 Benedikt Strajnar Data assimilation activities in RC LACE
10:00-10:20 Marco Milan Spectral Nudging in an Hourly 4DVAR Framework: Status and Plans
10:20-10:40 Claude Fischer Recent progress and plans on the use of observations in the ARPEGE and AROME models at MF
10:40-10:50discussion
10:50-11:10coffee break
Plenary Session on Dynamics (chair: Daan Degrauwe)
11:10-11:30 Michael Baldauf Recent numerics developments in the COSMO and ICON model
11:30-11:50 Christine Johnson Next generation limited area models
11:50-12:00discussion
12:00-14:00lunch break
Poster Session (chair: Balázs Szintai)
14:00-14:30Introduction to national posters
Plenary Session on Surface Aspects (chair: Ekaterina Kurzeneva)
14:30-14:50 Jürgen Helmert (DWD) Overview of COSMO surface activities
14:50-15:10 Gianpaolo Balsamo (ECMWF) Overview of ECMWF surface activities
15:10-15:30 Patrick Samuelsson (SMHI) Overview of HIRLAM surface activities ,
15:30-15:50 Cristina Charlton-Perez (UK Met Office) Overview of UK Met Office surface activities
15:50-16:10discussion
Wednesday, 30th September
Plenary Session on Verification (chair: Mike Bush)
09:00-09:20 Phillip Scheffknecht The challenge of verifying AROME-RUC precipitation forecasts
09:20-09:40 Bent Hansen Sass A brief summary of differences and similarities of 3° spatial verification schemes: SAL, FSS and SLX
09:40-10:00 Marion Mittermaier Using feature-based verification methods to explore the spatial and temporal characteristics of forecasts of the 2019 Chlorophyll-a bloom season in a European regional ocean model
10:00-10:10discussion
10:10-10:30coffee break
Breakout Session on Data Assimilation (chair: Bruce Macpherson)
10:30-12:30 Pierre Brousseau ALADIN, (AROME Ensemble-Variational 3D/4D-EnVar under OOPS
Bob Tubbs Met Office, Satellite Data Assimilation in Met Office Regional models: Recent improvements and assessment of performance
Gareth Dow Met Office,Observing System Experiments in the UKV model
Martin Imrisek LACE: STSM report on GNSS slant delay assimilation
Discussion on EUMETNET DA impact studies (introduced by J. Sugier)
12:30-14:00lunch break
Poster Session (chair: Balázs Szintai)
14:00-14:30Introduction to national posters
Plenary Session on Predictability (chair: Alfons Callado)
14:30-14:50 Aurore Porson Update on ensemble work at the Met Office
14:50-15:10 Inger-Lise Frogner Who's the winner? A comparison of different perturbations using tendency diagnostics
15:10-15:30 Chiara Marsigli Steps forward in the COSMO ensembles
15:30-15:50 Martina Tudor The developments in EPS systems of RC LACE
15:50-16:30discussion
Thursday, 1st October
Plenary Session on Upper-air Physics (chair: Mike Bush)
09:00-09:15 Sander Tijm HARMONIE-AROME physics developments", with a focus on fog modelling
09:15-09:30 Kristian Pagh Nielsen Testing the theory of HARMONIE-AROME cloud thermal radiation parametrizations
09:30-09:45 Anke Finnenkoetter Unified Model physics developments
09:45-10:00 Yann Seity Recent progress on physics for AROME
10:00-10:15 Martina Tudor Physics parametrisation developments in RC LACE
10:15-10:30 Matthias Raschendorfer COSMO upper air physics developments
10:30-10:40discussion
10:40-11:10coffee break
Breakout Session on Surface Aspects (chair: Patrick Samuelsson)
11:10-11:20 Patrick Samuelsson (SMHI): Welcome and purpose of this meeting.
11:20-11:40 Eoin Walsh (University of Limerick) Improving ECOCLIMAP Physiography map using Machine Learning Techniques and Satellite Image data
11:40-12:00 Dáire Healy (Maynooth University) Estimating Roughness Lengths with Machine Learning
12:00-12:20 Paola Mercogliano (CMCC)Treatment of new external parameters in COSMO urban modelling
12:20-13:10 Open discussion e.g. on external databases, ESA-CCI land cover etc..
13:10-14:00lunch break
Poster Session (chair: Balázs Szintai)
14:00-14:30 Introduction to national posters
Breakout Session on Predictability (chair: Chiara Marsigli)
14:30-14:40 Introduction
14:40-15:00 Adam Clark and Brett Roberts Evaluating convection-allowing ensemble configuration strategies during the 2020 NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Forecasting Experiment
15:00-15:20 C. Marsigli ICON-D2-EPS in the European Severe Storms Laboratory (ESSL) Testbed 2020"
15:20-15:40 T. Comito Investigation into different up-scaling approaches to address the double-penalty problem arising in high-resolution EPS: Machine Learning and Dynamical techniques to be applied to ensemble-based forecasts of precipitation
15:40-16:00 A. Callado SRNWP-EPS: convection-permitting LAM-EPS database
16:00-16:30Discussion
Friday, 2nd October
09:00-11:00 Breakout Session on Verification and Upper-air Physics (chair: Marion Mittermaier and Mike Bush)
Topics to discuss:
  1. Physics: What are the things coming up in physics development that need verifying or evaluating; what challenges do you foresee?
  2. Verification: What are the considerations from a verification/evaluation perspective that are important for testing the impact of physics changes?
  3. Where the "rubber hits the road": What happens if you have conflicting results when evaluating a physics package? How do you work out what to believe?
11:00-11:20coffee break
Session on Link with Applications (chair: Jeanette Onvlee)
11:20-11:40 Humphrey Lean High resolution developments at the Met Office and involvement in the Paris 2024 RDP
11:40-12:00 Anastasia Bundel Activity in Interpretation and Applications in COSMO
12:00-12:20 Jeanette Onvlee, Dick Blaauboer Evolution of the UWC operational cooperation
12:20-12:30discussion
12:30-14:00lunch break
Closing Session (chair: Balázs Szintai)
14:00-14:40Summary of parallel sessions by Expert Team Chairs
14:40-15:30EWGLAM final discussion

2. Posters

Austria: Christoph Wittmann, Croatia: Kristian Horvath, Finland: Markku Kangas, France: Patricia Pottier, Germany: Detlev Majewski, Hungary: Gabriella Szépszó, Ireland: Eoin Whelan, Italy: Francesca Marcucci, Japan: Masami Narita, Poland: ALADIN: Bogdan Bochenek, Poland: COSMO: Joanna Linkowska, Portugal: Maria Jose Monteiro, Russia: Gdaly Rivin and Inna Rozinkina, Slovakia: Maria Derkova, Slovenia: Neva Pristov, Spain: Javier Calvo, Switzerland: Philippe Steiner, Turkey: Yelis Cengiz,