the 44th EWGLAM and 29th SRNWP Meeting

26-29 Sep. 2022, organized by the Belgium Meteorological service

Participants

Mario Acosta, Badreddine Alaoui, Ulf Andrae, Ivar Ansper, Michael Baldauf, Jan Barkmeijer, Miguel Barrios, Peter Bechtold, Zakaria Benghabrit, Loïk Berre, Bogdan Bochenek, Jelena Bojarova, Slavko Brdar, Mike Bush, Fatih Buyukkasabbasi, Carlo Cafaro, Javier Calvo, Yelis Cengiz, Philippe Chambon, Renato Cifuentes, Colm Clancy, Sebastian Cole, Alexandra Craciun, Lesley De Cruz, Alex Deckmyn, Daan Degrauwe, Idir DEHMOUS, Jan De Pue, Maria Derkova, Gareth Dow, Reima Eresmaa, Tomos Evans, James Fannon, Ghislain Faure, Henrik Feddersen, Anke Finnenkoetter, Claude FISCHER, Carl Fortelius, Inger-Lise Frogner, Christoph Gebhardt, Luc Gerard, Nicolas Ghilain, Emily Gleeson, Flora Gofa, Juan Jesus Gonzalez Aleman, Sue Grimmond, Alper GÜSER, Alan Hally, Rafiq Hamdi, Jürgen Helmert, Kristian Horvath, Katalin Javorne-Radnoczi, Åke Johansson, Markku Kangas, Nour El Isslam Kerroumi, Yuji Kitamura, Aline Kraai, Ekaterina Kurzeneva, Humphrey Lean, Alina Lerner, Sylvie Leroyer, Martin Leutbecher, Joanna Linkowska, Lech Łobocki, Anne Mccabe, Pascal Mailier, Francesca Marcucci, Chiara Marsigli, Alexandre Mary, Andrzej Mazur, Ewa McAufield, Françoise Meulenberghs, Ana Mihalovic, Marco Milan, Massimo Milelli, Enrico Minguzzi, Konstantin Mladenov, Mohamed Mokhtari, Isabel Monteiro, Kristian Pagh Nielsen, Rachel North, Jeanette Onvlee, Sandro Oswald, Bolli Palmason, Guðrún Nína Petersen, Aurore Porson, Patricia Pottier, Neva Pristov, Roger Randriamanpianina, Martin Ridal, Thomas Rieutord, Patrick Samuelsson, Daniel Santos Muñoz, Siham SBII, Sophia Schäfer, Christoph Schraff, Jan-Peter Schulz, Yann Seity, Piotr Sekuła, Meral Sezer, Geert Smet, Petra Smolíková, Gabriel Stachura, Antonio Stanešić, Joel Stein, Fabien Stoop, Benedikt Strajnar, Małgorzata Szczęch-Gajewska, Gabriella Szépszó, Balázs Szintai, Natalia Szopa, Simona Tascu, Piet Termonia, Natalie Theeuwes, Sigurdur Thorsteinsson, Boglárka Tóth, Gabriella Tóth, Helga Tóth, Milen Tsankov, Boryana Tsenova, Martina Tudor, Zeynep Feriha Ünal, Michiel Van Ginderachter, Bert Van Schaeybroeck, Saji Varghese, Thomas Vergauwen, Antonio Vocino, Fabrice Voitus, CHIKHI Walid, Clemens Wastl, Stuart Webster, Nils Wedi, Florian Weidle, Eoin Whelan, Christoph Wittmann, Xiaohua Yang, Dmitrii Mironov, Christian Kuehnlein, Michail Diamantakis, Eric Bazile, Pekka Manninen, Jenni Kontkanen, Magnus Lindskog, Ljiljana Dekić, Alejandro Hermoso, Marco Arpagaus, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Marion Mittermaier, Michal Nestiak, Contreras Osorio, Sebastián, Rune Carbuhn Andersen, Stan Posey, Raschendorfer Matthias, Haythem Belghrissi, Wafa Khalfaoui, Rahma Benromdhane, Hajer Dhouioui and Oliver Fuhrer.

  1. Agenda and presentations
  2. National posters
  3. Video recordings

1. Agenda and presentations

Overview of COSMO surface activities
Monday, 26th September
08:30-09:00Registration and Poster set-up
09:00-09:10 Daniel Gellens, Director of RMI Opening
09:10-09:15 Balázs Szintai Introduction to the meeting programme
Consortia Presentations. Chair: Piet Termonia; co-chair: Christoph Wittmann
09:15-09:30 Stuart Webster Met Office
09:30-09:45 Claude Fischer ACCORD
09:45-10:00 Jeanette Onvlee HIRLAM
10:00-10:15 Martina Tudor LACE
10:15-10:45coffee break
10:45-11:00 Christoph Gebhardt COSMO
11:00-11:30 Peter Bechtold ECMWF
Review talks. Chair: Dmitrii Mironov; co-chair: Yann Seity
11:30-11:50 Nils Wedi Destination Earth: Opportunities & Challenges
11:50-12:20 Sylvie Leroyer The fascinating albeit unpaved road for subkilometer NWP systems: a Canadian perspective
12:20-12:50 Humphrey Lean On the challenges of hectometric-scale models for operational application
12:50-14:00lunch break
14:00-14:30 Sue Grimmond High resolution NWP modelling: evaluation and developments
14:30-15:00 Alejandro Hermoso Potential of stochastic methods for improving convection-permitting ensemble forecasts of extreme events
EUMETNET presentations. Chair: Francesca Marcucci; co-chair: Stéphane Vannitsem
15:00-15:15 Aline Kraai Developments in EUMETNET
15:15-15:30 Balázs Szintai Actual within C-SRNWP
15:30-15:50coffee break
Session on Dynamics. Chair: Daan Degrauwe; co-chair: Colm Clancy
15:50-16:10 Michael Baldauf The BRIDGE project: Basic Research for ICON with Discontinuous Galerkin Extension
16:10-16:30 Petra Smolikova First attempts to implement horizontal features to the turbulence scheme TOUCANS of ACCORD
16:30-16:50 Fabrice Voitus improving the robustness of the constant-coefficient ICI scheme of the dynamical core of AROME model
16:50-17:10 Christian Kuehnlein Developing a performance-portable finite-volume model for high-resolution NWP
17:10-17:20discussions
Poster Session. chair: Balázs Szintai
17:20-18:20 Introduction to national posters
18:20-20:00Icebreaker and poster viewing session
Tuesday, 27th September
Thematic sessions of Expert Teams
Session on Link with Applications. Chair: Jeanette Onvlee; co-chair:
08:30-08:50 Roger Randriamampianina On-Demand Extremes Digital Twin
08:50-09:10 Andrzej Mazur Operational forecasts of the air dispersion of hazardous pollutants based on results of COSMO model
09:10-09:30 Aurore Porson Exploiting the benefits of testbeds in the Met Office R2O-O2R cycle
09:30-09:50 Sander Tijm/Eoin Whelan UWC-West operational cooperation: organization aspects and status
09:50-10:10 Åke Johansson A set of deterministic and probabilistic forecast products for aviation purpose
10:10-10:30 Alaoui Badreddine New AI based weighting strategy for 2m temperature and 10m wind speed forecasting over Moroccan airports using the analog ensemble method
10:30-10:40discussions
10:40-11:00coffee break
Session on Predictability. Chair: Chiara Marsigli; co-chair:
11:00-11:20 Clemens Wastl EPS activities in RC-LACE
11:20-11:40 Chiara Marsigli From COSMO ensembles to ICON ensembles
11:40-12:00 Aurore Porson Use of multi-model convective-scale ensembles for high-profile rainfall cases over the UK
12:00-12:20 Carlo Cafaro Evaluating different convective-scale ensembles over the UK
12:20-12:30discussions
12:30-13:30lunch break
Session on Verification. Chair: Marion Mittermaier; co-chair:
13:30-13:50 Flora Gofa Overview of consortium verification activities
13:50-14:10 Juan Jesus Gonzalez Aleman Testing very high-resolution simulations in HARMONIE-AROME
14:10-14:30 Joel Stein and Fabien Stoop Neighborhood pooling for evaluating ensemble forecasts of binary events with the Brier Divergence
14:30-14:50 Marion Mittermaier Update on METplus implementation at the Met Office
14:50-14:55 Sebastian Cole et al. Two METplus implementation posters
14:55-15:05discussion
15:05-15:30coffee break
15:30-17:30 Special Session: Future evolution of HPC architectures and the relation of these to earth system modelling (Chair: Daniel Santos; co-chair: Marco Arpagaus)
Mario Acosta HPC evolution for weather and climate models
Pekka Manninen The EuroHPC flagship supercomputer LUMI in service of the weather and climate community
Stan Posey NVIDIA HPC Technologies Enabling the Earth-2 Digital Twin Initiative
17:30-19:00 ACCORD Local Team Managers meeting (for LTMs or their representatives
Wednesday, 28th September
Parallel Sessions
09:00-10:30 Parallel session on surface aspects
Jan-Peter Schulz et al. A new urban parameterisation for the ICON atmospheric model
Jürgen Helmert Mire parameterization in the surface subgrid structure of ICON: implications for physiographic data
Balázs Szintai Introducing a daily updated Leaf Area Index in AROME-Hungary
Patrick Samuelsson Discussion on Blending height
09:00-10:30 Parallel session on verification. Discussion on the following topics:
  1. Evaluation systems coping with the changes in modelling systems
  2. Implications of increasing complexity of the modelling chain to verification
  3. Ability of NMHSs to develop and maintain own verification software
  4. Community tools for verification
10:30-11:00coffee break
Thematic sessions of Expert Teams:
Session on Upper Air Physics. Chair: Mike Bush; co-chair: Anne McCabe
11:00-11:20 Yann Seity Recent progress in Météo-France physics (AROME)
11:20-11:40 Bogdan Bochenek Physics parametrisations developments and plans in RC LACE
11:40-12:00 Anke Finnenkoetter Updates on the Met Office RAL3 configuration
12:00-12:20 Matthias Raschendorfer Ongoing and new physics development in COSMO
12:20-12:40 Emily Gleeson Recent progress in HARMONIE-AROME physics
12:40-13:00 Kristian Pagh Nielsen Spectral coupling between the atmosphere and snow surfaces
13:00-13:15discussion
13:15-14:15lunch break
Parallel Sessions
Parallel session on predictability
14:15-14:45 I. Cerenzia and C. Marsigli "Towards ICON-LEPS", (10 minutes)
Discussion about possible collaborations in CP ensemble in Europe
14:45-15:15 Alfons Callado SRNWP-EPS status
Maria Cortes Calibration on extremes
Joan Montolio LAM-EPS EFI and SOT
15:15-16:00 Discussion about the requirements for next EUMETNET phase
14:15-16:00 Parallel session on physics
Eric Bazile Recent progress in ARPEGE and AROME at 500m
Natalie Theeuwes The representation of boundary-layer turbulence in sub-km NWP
Discussion on hectometric-scale models and physics
16:00-22:00Excursion and dinner
Thursday, 29th September
Thematic sessions of Expert Teams:
Session on Surface Aspects. Chair: Patrick Samuelsson; co-chair: Helga Tóth
08:40-09:05 Jürgen Helmert
09:05-09:30 Gianpaolo Balsamo/Patricia de Rosnay Overview of land data assimilation and modelling advances at ECMWF
09:30-10:00 Patrick Samuelsson and Ekaterina Kurzeneva ACCORD overview of surface activities
10:00-10:20 Sandro Oswald Verification and updates of the ESA-CCI land cover product
10:20-10:30discussions
10:30-11:00coffee break
Session on Data Assimilation. Chair: Roger Randriamampianina; co-chair: Philippe Chambon
11:00-11:20 Marco Milan The Met-Office LAM DA system present and future
11:20-11:40 Magnus Lindskog NWP based nowcasting in ACCORD
11:40-12:00 Benedikt Strajnar Use of new types of observations in ACCORD
12:00-12:20 Loïk Berre EnVar in OOPS for ACCORD
12:20-12:40 Christoph Schraff Update on KENDA and a particle filter
12:40-13:00 Martin Ridal Use of radar radial winds from the OPERA network
13:00-13:10discussions
13:10-14:00lunch break
Closing Session (chair: Balázs Szintai)
14:00-14:40 Summary of parallel sessions by Expert Team Chairs & Summary of EWGLAM Surface Sessions
14:40-15:00 EWGLAM final discussion
15:00End of the meeting

2. National posters

Algeria: Mohamed Mokhtari, Austria: Florian Weidle, Croatia: Antonio Stanešić, Finland: Reima Eresmaa, France: Ghislain Faure, Hungary: Gabriella Szépszó, Ireland: Eoin Whelan, Italy: Francesca Marcucci, Japan: Yuji Kitamura, Portugal: Maria Monteiro, Slovakia: Maria Derkova, Slovenia: Neva Pristov, Spain: Javier Calvo and United Kingdom: Sebastian Cole 1st, 2nd

3. Video recordings

Monday

Opening, Consortia presentations, Review talks, EUMETNET presentations, Session on Dynamics, National Posters 📹

Tuesday

Session on Link with Applications, Session on Predictability, Session on Verification: 📹

Wednesday

Parallel session on surface aspects, Plenary session on upper air physics: 📹
Parallel session on physics: 📹

Thursday

Session on Surface Aspects, Session on Data Assimilation: 📹