author:
Andras Horanyi, C-SRNWP PM
Hungarian Meteorological Service
1024 Budapest, Kitaibel Pal utca 1., Hungary
date:
16 October 2009
The programme had been continued on the basis of the elements built in the previous periods especially as regards the eight Expert Teams and the Advisory Committee. The most important event of the SRNWP community was the annual EWGLAM/SRNWP meeting, which was held in Greece at the very end of September. The meeting was intensively prepared with the help of the Expert Teams and successfully realised afterwards. Serbia entered the programme as a new member. The contribution fees except two members had been arrived to the Hungarian Meteorological Service.
The main activity of the C-SRNWP programme is the coordination between the five LAM Consortia in Europe (ALADIN, COSMO, HIRLAM, LACE and Met Office). The coordination is ensured by the eight Expert Teams (data assimilation and use of observations; diagnostics, validation and verification; dynamics and lateral boundary coupling; link with applications; physical parameterization: upper air; predictability and EPS; surface and soil processes: model and data assimilation; system aspects) established last year and the regular contacts between the members of the SRNWP Advisory Committee. Beside that two SRNWP-related programmes (responsible member: MetOffice) are ongoing (their reports are prepared independently): SRNWP-I (Interoperability) and SRNWP-V (Verification).
The Expert Teams continued their activities based on their respective workplans (which are available at the srnwp.met.hu webpage of the SRNWP programme). The Expert Teams proposed the "review talks" and their respective scientific sessions for the EWGLAM/SRNWP meeting and the members were actively taking part in the annual meeting.
The SRNWP Advisory Committee had its fourth meeting after the EWGLAM/SRNWP event on 1st of October. At this time the Expert Team chairpersons were also invited and the EUMETNET Executive Director could also attend the meeting. The discussions were more focused on the Expert Team issues with special emphasis on the possible efficiency improvements of the Expert Team activities.
The contribution fees were collected except for Italy and Serbia. For the latter countries reminders were announced in the annual meeting.
The Programme Manager attended several meetings on behalf of the programme, which are as follows:
None so far.
| Income and Expenditure Statement | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | Year to date | Forecast revenue to end of year | Next year's revenue budget | ||
| 1 | Contributions from participating members | €30778 | € 35200 | € 35000 | |
| Total revenue to date | €30778 | Total Nxt Yr | € 35000 | ||
| Total Revenue to End of Year | € 35200 | Expenditure | Year to date | Forecast expenditure to end of year | Next year's expenditure budget |
| 1 | Staff costs | € 22500 | € 30000 | € 30000 | |
| 2 | PM travel & subsistence | € 5713 | € 5000 | € 5000 | |
| Total expenditure to date: | € 28213 | Total Nxt Yr | € 35000 | ||
| Total Expenditure to end of Yr | € 35000 | ||||
| Surplus / Deficit to date | +€ 2565 | ||||
| Surplus / Deficit at end of year | +€ 200 | ||||
None to report.
None to request.
For the end of the year the most important activities will concentrate on the implementation of the proposals, decisions formulated in the annual meeting. Beside others the following main activities are planned to be realised: update the list of national contacts for C-SRNWP, official contacts to Poland in order to convince them for entering the programme, initiative to exchange observational data for the validation of surface schemes, update the list of workshops for the forthcoming year, participation in the EUMETCAL training course.