Fifth International SRNWP-Workshop on Non-Hydrostatic Modelling

Bad Orb, 27-29 October 2003, Deutscher Wetterdienst

Participants

Aarne Männik, Almut Gaßmann, Aurelia Müller, Barbara Fay, Bertó Alessio , Bill Skamarock, Bodo Ritter, Carol Roadnight, Christoph Schraff, Claus-Jürgen Lenz, Colin Jones, Daniela Rezácová, Detlev Majewski, Dieter Frühwald, Dimitrii Mironov, Erdmann Heise, Evelyne Richard, Felix Ament, Frank J. Braun, Friedrich Theunert, Gdaly Rivin, George C. Craig, Gerd Vogel, Gerhard Adrian, Günther Doms, Günther Heinemann, Günther Zängl Guoqiang Xu, Hans-Joachim, Hans-Jürgen, Hans-Stefan Bauer, Hans Volkert, Heinz-Werner Bitzer, Helmut Frank, Herzog, Hirofumi Tomita, Ingo Jacobsen, Jan-Peter Schulz, Jayaraman Potty, Jean Quiby, Jochen Förstner, Joe Klemp, Jozef Vivoda, Jürgen Helmert, Jürgen Steppeler, Kai Sattler, Karina Lindberg, Kazuaki Yasunaga, K. Heinke Schlünzen, Lina Neunhäuserer, Marco Arpagaus, Marek Kašpar, Mark Dubal, Masaki Satoh, Mathias Müller, Matthias Raschendorfer, Michael Baldauf, Michael Buchhold, Michail Diamantakis, Michel Desgagne, Mikhail Tolstykh, Monika Klein, Nicola Loglisci, Olaf Hellmuth, Oliver Schmid, Oswald Knoth, Panitz, Paola Mercogliano, Peter Clark, Pierre Benard, Radmila Brozakova, Reinhold Hess, Reinhold Schrodin, Sami Niemelä, Stefano Serafin, Sylvie Malardel, Teruyuki Kato, Thorsten Reinhardt, Udo Gärtner, Ulrich Damrath, Ulrich Schättler, Ulrike Wacker, Volker Renner, Weiming Sha, Werner Wergen, Xuesheng Yang, Yukihiro Kumagai, Yuki Honda, Zavisa Janjic, and Zbynek Sokol.

Agenda and presentations

Monday, 27/10/2003
09:00-09:10 W. Storck Address of Mayor of Bad Orb
09:10-09:20 U. Gürtner Opening by President of DWD
09:20-09:30 J. Quiby Address of SRNWP-Representative
09:30-09:40 J. Steppeler Lead Centre for Non-Hydrostatic Modelling
Parameterisation I (soil models). Chairperson: Z. Janjic
09:40-10:00 Y. Kumagai, K. Saito, M. Yoshida, and H. Niino, NPD, Japan Improvement of the land surface processes of the non-hydrostatic model al JMA
10:00-10:20 H. Schlanzen, Univ. Hamburg, Germany Impact of different sub-grid-scale land-use effects parameterisations on mesoscale model results
10:20-10:40 G. Heinemann and M. Kerschgens, Univ. Bonn, Germany Treatment of small scale land surface heterogeneity for atmospheric modelling
10:40-11:00 D. Mironov, DWD, Offenbach, Germany Parameterization of lakes in NWP models
11:00-11:30Coffee and Poster
Poster F. Ament and C. Simmer, Univ. Bonn, Germany  Representing subgrid-scale land surface variability in the Lokal-Modell- concepts and first results
Poster M. Máller, Univ. Basel, Switzerland Inclusion of satellite derived, daily NDVI values in the Meso ETA model
Parameterisation II (sensitivity studies). Chairperson: E. Richard
11:30-11:50 C. Jones, SMHI, Sweden Representing stratocumulus clouds in numerical models: Sensitivity to model physics & vertical resolution
11:50-12:10 Th. Reinhardt and U. Wacker, AWI, Germany Sensitivities in LM Model results due to changes in the parameterization of cloud microphysics
12:10-12:30 K. Sattler and H. Feddersen, DMI, Denmark Studies on a multi-scheme ensemble during different rainfall events
12:30-14:00Lunch
Parameterisation II (convection). Chairperson: W. Sha
14:30-14:50 S. Niemelü and C. Fortelius, Univ. Helsinki, Finnland Representation of convection under hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic HIRLAM: A case study of the convective event
14:50-15:10 C. Roadnight, Met. Office, Univ. Reading, U.K. Representing convection in convective scale NWP models: An idealised study
15:10-15:30 M. Satoh and T. Nasuno, Saitama Inst. Tech., Japan Radiative-convective equilibrium calculations with cloud resolving models: a standard experiment and parameter study
15:30-15:50 J. Helmert, IfT, Leipzig, Germany Examination of the impact of mixing-length formulation on mesoscale simulation results. A Lokal-Modell case study
15:50-16:40Coffee and Poster
Poster G. Craig and B. Plant, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany A stochastic cumulus parameterisation- Design and single column tests
Poster G. Xu, J. Xue, Ch. Dehui and L. Huang, Beijing, P.R. of China Simulation Study of Precipitation in China
16:40-17:00 O. Knoth and D. Hinneburg, IfT, Leipzig, Germany A cloud resolving model with implicit time stepping: Orographic flow application
17:00-17:20 M. Raschendorfer, DWD, Offenbach, Germany A simplified approach to the influence of sub grid scale surface elements by the model equations
Poster M. Diamantakis and T. Davies, Met Office, Exeter, U.K. Fractional timestepping of fast physics processes in the Met Office model
Poster M. Dubal, N. Wood, and A. Staniforth, Met Office, U.K. Analysis of splitting methods for time-stepping physical parametrizations
Non-hydrostatic systems. Chairperson: U. Wacker
17:20-17:40 Z. Janjic, NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, USA The NCEP WRF core and further development of ist physical package
17:40-18:00 J. Klemp, NCAR, Boulder, USA Evaluation of WRF for convection resolving NWP
19:00Dinner Hotel Fernblic
Tuesday, 28/10/2003
Non-hydrostatic systems (continued. Chairperson: M. Tolstykh
09:00-09:20 S. Malardel, Meteo France, Toulouse, France The Arome mesoscale project
09:20-09:40 H. Tomita, M. Satoh, K. Goto, and T. Nasuno, Yokohama, Japan Development of the global cloud resolving model on the Icosahedral grid
Poster A. Münnik and R. Ráám, Univ. Tartu, Estonia Experimental very high resolution forecasting at EMHI
Poster X. Yang, J. Hu, J. Chen, Z. Jin, and L. Huang, Beijing, P.R. of China GRAPES dynamic model and the preliminary tests
Dynamics and numerics. Chairperson: K. H. Schlánzen
09:40-10:00 M. Tolstykh, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Variable resolution version of the global SL-AV model on a reduced longitude-latitude grid
10:00-10:20 R. Brozkova, P. Benard, F. Bouttier, J.-F. Geleyn, and A. Trojakova, CHMI, Prague, Czech Republic Some side-results of the development effort for a stable and efficient semi-Lagrangian version of the ALADIN-NH code
0:20-10:40 P. Benard, P. Smolikova, J. Masek, and J. Vivoda, Meteo France, Toulouse, France A potentially dangerous albeit unnecessary restriction in classical semi-implicit schemes design strategy
10:40-11:10Coffee
11:10-11:30 W. Skamarock, M. Baldwin, and W. Wang, NCAR, Boulder, USA Evaluating dissipation in NWP models using kinetic energy spectra
11:30-11:50 W. Skamarock, J. Doyle, P. Clark, and N. Wood, NCAR, Boulder, USA A standard test set for nonhydrostatic dynamical cores of NWP models
11:50-12:10 W. Sha, Tohoku Univ., Japan Dynamical core of a new atmospheric meso-scale numerical model developed in Cartesian coordinates
12:10-12:50 J. Vivoda, P. Benard, P. Smolikova, J. Masek, and R. Brozkova, Meteo France, Toulouse, France Application of the iterative centered implicit scheme to non-hydrostatic dynamics of LAM ALADIN
12:30-14:30lunch
14:30 14:50 J. Steppeler, DWD, Offenbach, Germany Semi-Implicit Methods
(Poster) J. Förstner, DWD, Offenbach, Germany First Results with RK-Time Integration and High-Order Spatial Discretization
Fine-scale analysis. Chairperson: D. Rezácová
14:50 15:10 Y. Honda, T. Kawabata, K. Tamiya, K. Aonashi, T. Tsuyuki, and K. Koizumi, Tokyo, Japan Development of a 4DVAR data assimilation system for the JMA nonhydrostatic model - JnoVA-
15:10 15:30 H.-S. Bauer, V. Wulfmeyer, and F. Vandenberghe, Univ. Hohenheim, Germany Comparison of different data assimilation techniques for a convective situation during the IHOP_2002 campaign
Case studies and verificatio. Chairperson: P. Benard
15:30-15:50 D. Rezácová and Z. Sokol, ASCR, Prague, Czech Republic LM application to severe convective events- effects of microphysics parameterisation on QPF
15:50-16:20 Coffe
16:20-16:40 T. Kato, Y. Sato, and X-BAIU-99 Observation group, Tsukuba, Japan Reason for the failure of the simulation of heavy rainfall during X-BAIU-01- Importance of a vertical profile of water vapor for numerical simulations
16:40-17:00 G. Zängl, Univ. Mánchen, Germany The sensitivity of simulated orographic precipitation to model details other than cloud
17:00-17:20 J-P. Schulz, D. Majewski, J. Förstner, V. Galabov, B. Fay, G. Doms, A. Gaßmann, and J. Steppeler, DWD, Offenbach, Germany Improving the simulated precipitaiton distribution in mountainous terrain in the Lokal-Modell: A case study for 20 February 2002.
17:20-17:40 K. Yasunaga, T. Kato, H. Sasaki, C. Muroi, K. Kurihara, Y. Sato, and M. Yoshizak, AESTO, Japan Verifications of high-resolution long-term prediction by Japan Meteorological Agency nonhydrostatic model (JMA-NHM) with the spectral boundary coupling (SBC) method
17:40-18:00 E. Richard, F. Lascaux, and the MAP working group on numerical modelling, Toulouse, France Evaluation of simulated precipitation fields of some MAP events: sensitivity experiments and model intercomparison
Wednesday, 29/10/2003
Case studies and verification (continued)
09:00-09:20 H. Volkert, Th. Fehr, E. Richard, and A. Tafferner, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany Campaign data for parameterization tests: Examples from MAP 1999, VERTIKATOR 2002, AWIATOR 2003-08-04
(poster) M. Kaspar, ASCR, Prague, Czech Republic LM application to severe convective events- diagnosing of propagating gust fronts
(poster) J. Potty, U. Wacker, C. Lápkes, J. Hartmann, and M. Raschendorfer, AWI, Bremerhaven, Germany A case study of a Polar cold air outbreak using the Lokal-Modell of DWD
(poster) S. Serafin, A. Berto, M. de Franceschi, R. Ferretti and D. Zardi, Univ. Trento, Italy Application of a mesoscale model to the analysis of late forst events and comparison with observations
(poster) P. Clark, Met Office, Univ. Reading, UK Progress with Kilometre Scale NWP using the Unified Model
(poster) H.-J. Herzog, G. Vogel, U. Schubert, DWD, Potsdam, Germany LLM- the high-resolving nonhydrostatic simulation model in the DWD
(poster) H.-J. Herzog, G. Vogel, U. Schubert, DWD, Potsdam, Germany Forcing strategy of the LLM
(poster) H.-J. Herzog, G. Vogel, U. Schubert, DWD, Potsdam, Germany External parameters of the LLM
(poster) H.-J. Herzog, G. Vogel, U. Schubert, DWD, Potsdam, Germany Results of LLM validation
09:20-10:30 Working Groups. Protocol: J. Steppeler
Working Group 1: Methods for the Evaluation of nh models: Chairperson: B. Skamarock Protocol: M. Baldauf
Working Group 2: Convection for the fine scale models: Chairperson: Z. Janjic Protocol: E. Heise
Working Group 3: R K and other 2 timelevel methods: Chairperson: J. Klemp
10:30-12:00Poster Session with coffee
12:00-12:20 Report of the Chairperson of Working Group 1 and Discussion
12:20-12:40 Report of the Chairperson of Working Group 2 and Discussion
12:40-13:00 Report of the Chairperson of Working Group 3 and Discussion
13:00end of workshop