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Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology

28th EWGLAM and 13th SRNWP Meetings

9 – 12 October 2006, Zurich (Switzerland)

Programme

	Monday, 9th October 2006
8:15 – 8:45	Registration
9:00	Opening by the Director of MeteoSwiss, D. Keuerleber and organisational
	matters
09:15 – 11:30	Presentation of the Consortia and ECMWF			chair: Marco Arpagaus
09:15 – 09:30	Tiziana Paccagnella	COSMO					15’
09:30 – 09:45	Mike Bush	UK Met Office					15’
09:45 – 10:00	Jeanette Onvlee	HIRLAM					15’
10:00 – 10:15	Jean-François Geleyn	ALADIN					15’
10:15 – 10:30	Dijana Klaric	LACE					15’
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30	Mariano Hortal	ECMWF					30’
11:30 – 14:45	Presentations of national posters				chair: Per Unden
	Harald Seidl		Austria			5’
	Josette Vanderborght		Belgium			5’
	Stjepan Ivatek-Sahdan		Croatia			5’
	Filip Vana		Czech Republic			5’
	Bent Sass		Denmark			5’
	Aarne Männik		Estonia			5’
	Carl Fortelius		Finland			5’
	Claude Fischer		France			5’
	Jan-Peter Schulz		Germany			5’
	Andras Horanyi		Hungary			5’
12:30 – 13:45	Lunch break
	James Hamilton		Ireland			5’
	Massimo Bonavita		Italy			5’
	Gerard Cats		Netherlands			5’
	Maria José Monteiro		Portugal			5’
	Cornel Soci		Romania			5’
	Maria Derkova		Slovakia			5’
	Neva Pristov		Slovenia			5’
	Bartolome Orfila		Spain			5’
	Lars Meuller		Sweden			5’
	Philippe Steiner		Switzerland			5’
	Mike Bush		United Kingdom			5’
14:45 – 15.15	Poster session
15:15 – 15:45	Coffee break

15:45 – 17:45	Scientific presentations on numerics and coupling numerics/physics		Chair: Claude Fischer
15:45 – 16:15	Terry Davies	Lateral boundary conditions, variable resolution or both?		30’
16:15 – 16:45	Filip Vana	general Dynamics status in ALADIN and LACE		30’
16:45 – 17:00	Jürgen Steppeler	Overview and strategy on numerics. The LMZ_ including coupling Numerics & Physics		15’
17:00 – 17:30	Jan Masek	Idealised test of ALADIN NH dynamical core at very high resolution (and comparison of hydrostatic and NH versions)		30’
17:30 – 17:45	All	Discussion		15’
18:30	City tour (start at hotel Basilea) with optional dinner

	Tuesday, 10th October
08:30 – 11:50	Scientific presentations on data assimilation		Chair: Terry Davies
08:30 – 09:00	Nils Gustafsson	Recent results and plans for HIRLAM 4D-VAR		30’
09:00 – 09:15	Jürgen Steppeler	Overview and strategy on data assimilation for LM		15’
09:15 – 09:45	Bruce Macpherson	Assimilation developments in North Atlantic and		30’
		UK models
09:45 – 10:00	Mark Naylor	Aspects of 4DVAR in North Atlantic model		15’
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee break
10:30 – 10:45	Daniel Leuenberger	The LHN scheme of COSMO		15’
10:45 – 11:15	Claude Fischer & An-	Data assimilation - ALADIN		30’
	dras Horanyi
11:15 – 11:35	Gergely Bölöni	Data assimilation – LACE specific		20’
11:35 – 11:50	All	Discussion		15’
11:50 – 13:30	Lunch break with optional visit of the forecast service
13:30 – 17:30	Scientific presentations on Physics		Chair: Tiziana Paccagnella
13:30 – 14:00	Jean-Marcel Piriou	Parametrisation in ALADIN		30’
14:00 – 14:15	Marco Arpagaus	Overview and strategy on LM Physics		15’
14:15 – 14:30	Dmitrii Mironov	The UTCS Project		15’
14:30 – 15:00	Mike Bush	Physics improvements in the North Atlantic Model		30’
15:00 – 15:30	Coffee break
15:30 – 16:00	Richard Forbes	Recent results from parametrization developments in the convective-scale (~1 km) Unified Model		30’
16:00 – 16:30	Sander Tijm	Physics developments in HIRLAM-A		30’
16:30 – 16:55	Stefan Gollvik	Snow, forest and lake aspects in the HIRLAM surface scheme		25’
16:55 – 17:15	Neva Pristov	ALARO part developed at LACE		20’
17:15 – 17:30	All	Discussion		15’
18:00	Apero offered by MeteoSwiss on the occasion of its 125th anniversary

	Wednesday, 11th October
08:30 – 11:00	Scientific presentations on predictability and EPS		Chair: Andras Horanyi
08:30 – 09:00	Harald Seidl	LAMEPS Development and Plan of ALADINLACE		30’
09:00 – 09:20	Trond Iversen	A proposal for Grand Limited Area Model Ensemble Prediction System (GLAMEPS)		20’
09:20 – 09:45	Bartolome Orfila	Recent experiences with the INM multi-model EPS scheme		25’
09:45 – 10:00	Chiara Marsigli	The COSMO SREPS project		15’
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee break
10:30 – 10:45	Pierre Eckert	COSMO ensemble systems		15’
10:45 – 11:00	All	Discussion		15’
11:00 – 11:30	EWGLAM Final Discussion		Chair: Stjepan Ivatek-Sahdan
	-Preparation of the newsletters -Date and place of the next meeting (2007)
	-Place of the meeting 2008 (tentative)
11:30 – 12:00	SRNWP business meeting		Chair: Jean Quiby
12:30	Excursion and offered dinner

	Thursday, 12th October
09:00 – 13:00	Discussion of the 3rd phase (from 1st January 2008) of the SRNWP Programme	Chair: Jean Quiby
	-Introduction to the NWP vision -draft “Programme Proposal” and “Programme Decision” -Procedure for the elaboration of a larger SRNWP scientific project
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
	-Other proposals identified ad the Vision Workshop: -Common format for the product exchange -NWP requirements for next phase of EUMETNET obs pgm -Procedure for the prioritization of the proposals from the Vision Workshop -Work plan/timeline for programme proposal until spring Council
13:00	End of the meetings