27th EWGLAM and 12th SRNWP
Meeting
3-5 October 2005, Ljubljana
(Slovenia)
Report of the Final EWGLAM
Discussion
I. Future role and format of the
"EWGLAM/SRNWP Annual Meetings"
A detailled discussion took
place under the chairmanship of Per Unden. The format of our Annual
EWGLAM/SRNWP Meetings has been deeply modified as can be seen from the summary
made by Dominique Giard and reviewed by the chairman of discussion (Per Unden)
and the SRNWP Co-ordinator (Jean Quiby):
Initiated
by a proposal for in-depth changes from Per Unden in March 2005, a lively
debate took place along the last EWGLAM meeting (Ljubljana, October 4th). It
was discussed how to make the next annual EWGLAM/SRNWP meetings more attractive
and more efficient. The objective is both to provide an overview of the main
progress in NWP along the past year over whole Europe and to representatives
from all European NMSs, and to allow decision making for enhanced collaboration
between consortia. The new joint meeting will include the following:
National
presentations will keep the form of posters introduced by a 5mn talk presenting
the most important issues, in operations or research. Besides
a table of the operational applications will be updated, each partner filling a
predefined standard form (instead of the present maintenance of a list by DWD).
Group
reports will be shorter, reduced to 15 mn, and present the main strategic
points for each of the five consortia (ALADIN, COSMO, HIRLAM and LACE, UK).
The
ECMWF presentation will not change, neither in length
(30 mn) nor in content. A similar EUMETSAT presentation could be added in the
future.
They
will be divided in scientific domains (data assimilation, dynamics,
predictability, physics, ...), shared between
consortia (with 2h-2h˝ per consortium for all topics), and include general
overviews as well as scientific presentations on innovative issues, and
discussions (at least 15 mn per topic). Each consortium will define which
partition best reflects its achievements along the last year. The consortia
leaders, the SRNWP coordinator, and the local organiser will between them agree
on the detailed programme and check that relevant area leaders or scientists
are invited (a sort of Programme committee).
That's
where will be decided how to work together. It should take half a day.
The
SRNWP meeting, prepared by the SRNWP coordinator, will be kept in more or less
the same format.
It
will be followed by discussions in small groups, involving mainly part of the
management groups of consortia.
The
length of the meeting will be increased, by half a day as a beginning (hence 3.5
days in 2006), more if new meetings are a real success, drawing more and more
scientists.
Consortia
should try to send more persons from the management groups or thematic
coordinators. The 2005 SRNWP presentations for Lead Centres were a typical
example of what should be avoided.
And
young scientists are welcome to EWGLAM/SRNWP meetings: this is a friendly and
useful introduction to NWP life for them, and this brings some fresh ideas to
the workshops.
See also the notes taken during the
discussion: http://www.arso.gov.si/ewglam_2005/ewglam-discussion.doc
II. Date and place of the 2006 EWGLAM/SRNWP
Meeting
The 2006 Meeting will be
organised by the Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology
(MeteoSwiss in short) and will take place in Zürich von the 9th to the 12th of
October.
This Meeting will be
organised according to the new format described above.
III. EWGLAM/SRNWP Meeting 2007
The 2007 Meeting will be organised
by the National Meteorological Service of Croatia.
IV. SRNWP Workshops in 2006 and 2007
Surface Processes
Next
workshop due in 2006.
No date planned because a new HIRLAM Programme (HIRLAM-A) will start 1st January
2006 with possibly a new Programme Manager (new name for Project Leader).
The Coordinator will contact
the HIRLAM Programme Manager in 2006.
Short-range EPS
Next
workshop
due in 2007.
Will take place in spring 2007 in Italy.
Statistical and Dynamical Adaptation
Next workshop due in 2007.
Will take place in 2007 in spring in Vienna.
Numerical Techniques
Next mini-workshop due in 2006.
Probably at the end of 2006. Location
still unknown.
The Co-coordinator will ask Pierre Bénard.
Nonhydrostatic Modelling
Next workshop: 31st of October 2005 in Bad Orb (Germany).
Following workshop in 2007 with a new responsible person: Michael
Baldauf
(no longer necessarily in Bad Orb; probably in
Langen).
Verification
Next workshop due in 2006.
Will take place the 15-17 May 2006 at KNMI.
Variational Data Assimilation
Next workshop due in 2006.
It is a Joint SRNWP / HIRLAM / Met Office Workshop.
Next meeting in 2006, organized by HIRLAM.
The Coordinator will contact the HIRLAM Programme Manager in 2006.