the 45th EWGLAM and 30th SRNWP Meeting

25-28 Sep. 2023, organized by the Icelandic Meteorological office

Participants

Simon Adamov, Badreddine Alaoui, Ulf Andrae, Salomé Antoine, Kohei Aranami, Michael Baldauf, Eric Bazile, Martin Belluš, Tommaso Benacchio, Loïk Berre, Souhail Boussetta, Francois Bouttier, Pierre brousseau, Thomas Burgot, Mike Bush, Carlo Cafaro, Alfons Callado, Javier CALVO, Joan Campins, Jure Cedilnik, Yelis Cengiz, Philippe Chambon, Sebastian Cole, Alexandra Crăciun, Bojan Cvetkovic, Daan Degrauwe, Ljiljana Dekic, Maria Derkova, Mayeul Destouches, Hajer Dhouioui, Maria Diez, Gareth Dow, Zahra Dr., Alina Dumitru, Léna Dziura, Reima Eresmaa, Ghislain Faure, Henrik Feddersen, Anke Finnenkoetter, Isla Finney, Claude Fischer, Carl Fortelius, Vivian Fraser-Leonhardt, Inger-Lise Frogner, Oliver Fuhrer, David John, Teresa García, Thomas Gastaldo, Christoph Gebhardt, Joern Geisbuesch, Emily Gleeson, Flora Gofa, Juan José, Juan Jesus, Alper Güser, Hilde Haakenstad, Susanna Hagelin, Kristian Horvath, Katalin Jávorné-Radnóczi, Åke Johansson, 61 Christine, Jan Keller, Endi Keresturi, Wafa Khalfaoui, Celaleddin Kizilkaya, Marcin Kolonko, Morten Køltzow, Aline Kraai, Ekaterina Kurzeneva, David Lancz, Yoav Levi, Huw Lewis, Magnus Lindskog, Joanna Linkowska, Daniela Littmann, Nuno Lopes, Angel Marčev, Chiara Marsigli, Ján Mašek, Andrzej Mazur, Anne Mccabe, Florian Meier, Nicolas Merlet, Françoise Meulenberghs, Ana Mihalović, Marco Milan, Massimo Milelli, Enrico Minguzzi, Marion Mittermaier, Maria MONTEIRO, Joan Montolio, Gema Morales, Michal Nestiak, Kristian Nielsen, Rachel North, Jeanette Onvlee, Bolli Pálmason, Martin Petraš, Mirela Pietrisi, Virginia Poli, Aurore Porson, Roger Randriamampianina, Matthias Raschendorfer, Laure Raynaud, Nigel Roberts, Patrick Samuelsson, Jana Sánchez-, Daniel Santos, Phillip Scheffknecht, Christoph Schraff, Jan-Peter Schulz, Yann Seity, Piotr Sekuła, Metodija Shapkalijevski, Pedro Silva, André Simon, Geert Smet, Petra Smolikova, Oldrich Spaniel, Gabriel Stachura, Antonio Stanešić, Klaus Stephan, Benedikt Strajnar, Gabriella Szépszó, Balazs Szintai, Natalia Szopa, Maxime Taillardat, Viktor Tarjáni, Doina-Simona Tascu, Simona Tascu, Piet Termonia, Sigurður Þorsteinsson, Sander Tijm, Helga Tóth, Boglárka Tóth, Gabriella Tóth, Milen Tsankov, Boryana Tsenova, Aristofanis Tsiringakis, Martina Tudor, Zeynep Feriha, Stephane VANNITSEM, Saji Varghese, Samuel Viana, Jozef Vivoda, Antonio Vocino, Valérie VOGT, Sabrina Wahl, Clemens Wastl, Stuart Webster, Florian Weidle, Eoin Whelan, Steve Willington, Christoph Wittmann, Xu Xu, Xiaohua Yang, Aleksandar Zečević and Xiaohui Zhao.

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

1. Agenda and presentations

Monday, 25th September
08:30-09:00 Registration and Poster set-up
09:00-09:10 Matthew J. Roberts Opening, by the Managing director of the Service and Research division, Icelandic Meteorological Office
09:10-09:15 Balázs Szintai Introduction to the meeting programme
Consortia Presentations. Chair: Eric Bazile, cochair: Sander Tijm
09:15-09:30 Mike Bush 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 Aristofanis Tsiringakis ECMWF
Review talks. Chair: Chiara Marsigli, co-chair: Piet Termonia
11:30-12:00 David John Gagne Machine Learning Uncertainty Quantification for Predicting Hazards and Impacts from Convection-Allowing LAMs
12:00-12:30 Isla Finney Using LAM to help make decisions: an overview of diverse applications from the private sector
12:30-13:30lunch break
EUMETNET presentations. Chair: Emily Gleeson; co-chair: Jan-Peter Schulz
13:30-13:40 Aline Kraai Developmentsv in EUMETNET
13:40-13:50 Balázs Szintai Actual coordination activities within C-SRNWP
13:50-14:00 Alfons Callado Five years of SRNWP-EPS in a nutshell
14:00-14:10 Stéphane Vannitsem The Postprocessing Benchmark: Lessons learned.
14:10-14:30coffee break
Session on Verification. Chair: Chiara Marsigli; co-chair: Rachel North
14:30-14:50 Marion Mittermaier Update on METplus implementation at the Met Office
14:50-15:10 Carl Fortelius Verification activities in ACCORD
15:10-15:30 Nigel Roberts Outcomes from the Met Office ensemble verification workshop
15:30-15:50 Flora Gofa COSMO verification activities
15:50-16:10 Sebastian Cole Use of MET verification to study and test Machine Learning developments in emulating NWP global deterministic forecasts
16:10-16:20discussions
16:20-17:20 Poster Session Introduction to national posters (Balázs Szintai)
17:20-19:00Icebreaker and poster viewing session
Tuesday, 26th September
Thematic sessions of Expert Teams
Session on Surface Aspects. Chair: Bolli Pálmason; co-chair: Ekaterina Kurzeneva
08:30-08:50 Jan-Peter Schulz Surface activities in the COSMO Consortium
08:50-09:10 Souhail Boussetta ECLand current status and perspectives
09:10-09:30 Patrick Samuelsson ACCORD overview of surface activities
09:30-09:50 Martina Tudor LACE activities on surface
09:50-10:00discussions
10:00-10:25coffee break
Session on Data Assimilation. Chair: Roger Randriamampianina; co-chair: Philippe Chambon
10:25-10:45 Christoph Schraff Assimilation of all-sky SEVIRI data and other news on KENDA
10:45-11:05 Benedikt Strajnar Algorithmic developments in ACCORD
11:05-11:30 Magnus Lindskog Use of observations in ACCORD
11:30-11:50 Valérie Vogt 3DEnVar data assimilation in Arome-France using OOPS
11:50-12:10 Jana Sánchez-Arriola, Magnus Lindskog,
Eoin Whelan, Reima Eresmaa, David Schönach		 Tuning of error statistics and quality control in Data Assimilation
12:10-12:20discussions
12:20-13:30lunch break
Session on Upper-Air Physics. Chair: Mike Bush; co-chair: Anne McCabe
13:30-13:50 Eric Bazile Preliminary results at 500m and 200m with AROME over the Alps with physics adaptation
13:50-14:10 Martina Tudor Physics parametrisations developments and plans in RC LACE
14:10-14:30 Anke Finnenkoetter Update on the Met Office Regional Atmosphere and Land Configuration (RAL3)
14:30-14:50 Emily Gleeson Overview of physics developments in HIRLAM
14:50-15:10 Yann Seity Recent developments in Météo-France physics
15:10-15:30 Matthias Raschendorfer About recent physics development in COSMO for the ICON model
15:30-15:40discussion
15:40-16:00coffee break
16:00-17:00 ACCORD Local Team Managers meeting (for LTMs or their representatives)
Wednesday, 27th September
Parallel Sessions
08:45-10:30 Parallel session on surface aspects
Jan-Peter Schulz and team: P. Mercogliano, M. Adinolfi, C. Apreda, F. Bassani, E. Bucchignani, A. Campanale, D. Cinquegrana, R. Dumitrache, G. Fedele, V. Garbero, W. Interewicz, A. Iriza-Burca, A. Jaczewski, P. Khain, Y. Levi, B. Maco, A. Mandal, M. Milelli, M. Montesarchio, M. Raffa, A. Reder, L. Uzan, H. Wouters and A. Wyszogrodzki:
A new urban parameterisation for the ICON atmospheric model
Rafiq Hamdi Implementing drip irrigation underneath plastic mulch in SURFEX: application on a typical Mountain-Oasis-Desert System in Northwest China
Samuel Viana
Metodija Shapkalijevski		 Testing the roughness sublayer in SURFEX: Implications for vegetation- atmosphere coupling
08:30-10:30 Parallel session on verification
Boglárka Tóth Verification methodology of variables highlighted by users
Angel Marcev Verification of temperature, wind and precipitation fields for the high-resolution WRF NMM model over the complex terrain of Montenegro
Marion Mittermaier Localised FSS with a new factorisation to diagnose skill and skill improvements over time
Juan Jesus Gonzalez Aleman Assessment of sub-kilometric simulations focusing on convective activity
Roger Harbord Application of fair scores to lagged and unlagged ensembles from hourly-cycling MOGREPS-UK
Åke Johansson Another look at the skill-spread relationship
Met Office Neighbourhood-based metrics investigation
Marion Mittermaier FSS/RPS comparison
Nigel Roberts Using RPS with neighbourhoods
Rachel North Impact on interpretation of RAL3 UK trial results
08:45-10:30 Parallel session on data assimilation (organized at IMO)
Marco Milan Ensemble-based methods
Jana Sanchez and Magnus Lindskog Estimation and modelling of observation errors
10:30-11:00coffee break
Thematic sessions of Expert Teams:
Session on Predictability. Chair: Henrik Feddersen; co-chair: Aurore Porson
11:00-11:20 Clemens Wastl EPS activities in LACE
11:20-11:40 Inger-Lise Frogner HarmonEPS developments
11:40-12:00 Chiara Marsigli Ensemble activities in COSMO
12:00-12:20 Laure Raynaud, C. Brochet, L. Danjou and G. Moldovan: From NWP ensembles to AI ensembles: a proof-of-concept with Arome
12:20-12:40 Nigel Roberts and David Walters Ensemble NWP plans, the ensemble exploitation strategic action and ensemble use cases
12:40-13:00 Aristofanis Tsiringakis Uncertainty quantification for DestinE extreme events using ensemble with different resolutions and model uncertainty schemes
13:00-13:10discussion
13:10-14:15lunch break
Parallel Sessions
14:15-16:00 Parallel session on predictability
Lena Dziura Understand and quantify the sources of uncertainty that govern the predictability of tropical cyclones at the convective scale with AROME
Andrzej Mazur EPS-skill based on the values of selected percentiles: climatological assessment using measurements at Polish synoptic stations. Comparison with regular, EPS-mean-based skill
Stuart Webster and Carlo Cafaro Results from new configurations of MOGREPS-UK
Joan Montolio-Llenas LAM-EPS EFI/SOT from research to operations in AEMET-gSREPS
14:15-16:00 Parallel session on physics
Kristian Pagh Nielsen Forecasting PV power production and the uncertainties involved
16:00-21:00excursion and dinner
Thursday, 28th September
Thematic sessions of Expert Teams:
Session on Link with Applications and System Aspects. Chair: Jeanette Onvlee; co-chair: Mike Bush)
08:30-08:50 Roger Randriamampianina On-Demand Extremes Digital Twin
08:50-09:10 Chiara Marsigli GLORI: Digital Twin based on ICON
09:10-09:30 Oliver Fuhrer Enabling performance, productivity and portability by implementing weather and climate models in Python
09:30-09:40discussions
09:40-10:10coffee break
Session on Dynamics (Chair: Daan Degrauwe; co-chair: Sander Tijm)
10:10-10:30 Petra Smolikova Dynamics in LACE: towards hectometric scales
10:30-10:50 Michael Baldauf Further developments in the Disconstinuous Galerkin based dynamical core for ICON (BRIDGE)
10:50-11:10 Christine Johnson Improving the solver efficiency in the LFRic LAM
11:10-11:30 Jozef Vivoda Recent development of NH dynamical core of global IFS
11:30-11:40discussions
Closing Session (chair: Balázs Szintai)
11:40-12:40 by Expert Team Chairs Summary of parallel sessions: Surface, Data Assimilation and Upper-Air Physics team
12:40-13:00 EWGLAM final discussion
13:00end of the meeting

2. National posters

Austria: Christoph Wittmann, Croatia: Endi Keresturi, Czech Republic: Petra Smolikova, Finland: Carl Fortelius, France: Eric Bazile, Hungary: Gabriella Szépszó, Ireland: Eoin Whelan, Japan: Kohei Aranami, Montenegro: Angel Marèev, Poland: Marcin Kolonko, Romania: Simona Taºcu, Slovakia: Mária Derková, Slovenia: Jure Cedilnik, Spain: Javier Calvo, United Kingdom: Marco Milan and U-WCW: Eoin Whelan.

3. Video recordings

Monday

Opening, Consortia presentations: 📹
Consortia presentations, Review talks: 📹
EUMETNET presentations: 📹
Session on Verification: 📹
Session on Verification, Poster Session: 📹

Tuesday

Session on Surface Aspects: 📹
Session on Data Assimilation, Discussion: 📹
Session on Upper-Air Physics: 📹
Session on Upper-Air Physics: 📹

Wednesday

Parallel session on verification: 📹
Parallel session on verification: 📹
Session on Predictability: 📹
Session on Predictability: 📹
Session on Predictability: 📹
Parallel session on predictability: 📹

Thursday

Session on Link with Applications, Session on Dynamics: 📹
Session on Dynamics: 📹
Session on Dynamics, Closing Session, Summary of parallel sessions: 📹