30^th EWGLAM and 15^th SRNWP meetings

6^th -9^th October 2008

Madrid, SPAIN

PROGRAMME

Monday, 6th October

8:30-9:00	Registration
9:00-9:15	Opening by the President of AEMet, Francisco Cadarso Gonzalez
Consortia presentations (Chair: Bartolome Orfila)
9:15-9:30	ALADIN (Jean-Francois Geleyn)
9:30-9:45	COSMO (Marco Arpagaus)
9:45-10:00	HIRLAM (Jeanette Onvlee)
10:00-10:15	LACE (Dijana Klaric)
10:15-10:30	MetOffice (Mike Bush)
10:30-11:00	COFFEE BREAK
11:00-11:30	ECMWF (Peter Bechtold)
Review talks (Detlev Majewski)
11:30-11:50	Bruce Macpherson: Review of activities in regional data assimilation
11:50-12:00	Claude Fischer: Review of observation impact studies
12:00-12:30	Pierre Benard: Review talk on dynamics
12:30-13:00	Sander Tijm: Review talk on physics
13:00-14:00	LUNCH BREAK
14:00-14:30	Jeanette Onvlee: Review talk of link with applications
14:30-15:00	Tiziana Paccagnella: TIGGE-LAM: Multi-model short-range probabilistic forecasting - scientific objectives and practical possibilities
15:00-15:30	Clive Wilson (on behalf of Rachel North): Interoperability progress (review talk on system)
15:30-16:00	Jean-Francois Mahfouf: Review talk on surface issues
16:00-16:30	Clive Wilson: Review of verification activities and developments
16:30-17:00	COFFEE BREAK
17:00-18:00	Introduction to national posters (Chair: Peter Bechtold)
	Austria (Yong Wang)
	Belgium (Josette Vanderborght)
	Croatia (Stjepan Ivatek-Sahdan)
	Czech Republic (Alena Trojakova)
	Denmark (Xiaohua Yang)
	Finland (Carl Fortelius)
	France (Olivier Riviere)
	Germany (Detlev Majewski)
	Greece (Panagiotis Skrimizeas)
	Hungary (Gergely Boloni)
	Ireland (Jim Hamilton)
	Italy (Massimo Bonavita)
	The Netherlands (Gerard Cats)
	Norway (Trond Iversen)
	Poland: ALADIN group (Marek Jerczynski)
	Poland: COSMO group (Joanna Linkowska)
	Portugal (Victor Prior)
	Romania (Victor Pescaru)
	Slovakia (Michal Nestiak)
	Slovenia (Neva Pristov); 2
	Spain (Estrella Gutierrez-Marco)
	Sweden (Lars Meuller)
	Switzerland (Philippe Steiner)
	United Kingdom (Mike Bush)
18:00-19:00	Poster session

Tuesday, 7th October

8:30-10:30 Session on data assimilation (Chair: Bruce Macpherson)

8:30-8:45 Christoph Schraff: Status overview in COSMO

8:45-9:00 Massimo Bonavita: Ensemble DA in regional NWP

9:00-9:20 Claude Fischer: Recent developments in variational assimilation systems at Meteo-France and ALADIN partners

9:20-9.30 Gergely Boloni: Recent activities and ambitions in LACE Data Assimilation

9:30-9:45 Carlos Geijo: Recent observation impact studies with the HIRLAM 4DVAR assimilation algorithm

9:45-10:00 Magnus Lindskog: HARMONIE DA

10:00-10:05 Jean-Francois Caron: Accounting for Particular balance Properties Over Precipitation Areas within Variational Data Assimilation Systems (poster introduction)

10:05-10:10 Bruce Macpherson: The ETDA plan

10:10-10:30 Discussion (facilitator: Nils Gustafsson)

10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:00-13:00 Session on dynamics (Chair: Mariano Hortal)

11:00-11:20 Terry Davies: Lateral boundary conditions and variable resolution in the UM

11:20-11:40 Filip Vana: Research and development in ALADIN and LACE groups

11:40-12:00 Peter Bechtold: Common developments and studies in ECMWF and Meteo France groups

12:00-12:20 Juan Simarro, Pierre Benard, Mariano Hortal, Agathe Untch: Some proposals about Vertical Finite Element discretisation in NH modelling

12:20-12:40 Detlev Majewski: Status and plans of numerics in COSMO

12:40:12:45 Kohei Aranami: Meso Scale Model and related R&D activities at the Japan Meteorological Agency (Introduction to poster)

12:45-13:00 Discussion

13:00-14:00 LUNCH BREAK

14:00-16:00 Session on physics (Chair : Sander Tijm)

14:00-14:25 Radmila Brozkova: ALARO physics; development of 3MT

14:25-14:50 Sander Tijm and Carl Fortelius: Coupling of HIRLAM and Air Chemistry; new ideas on the stable boundary layer

14:50-15:15 Valery Masson: ARPEGE/ALADIN and AROME physics developments

15:15-15:40 Mike Bush: Physics developments in the Met Office regional NAE model and the mesoscale model

15:40-16:00 Discussion

16:00-16:30 COFFEE BREAK

16:30-18:30 Session on verification (Chair: Clive Wilson)

16:30-16:50 Adriano Raspanti: VERSUS - the new unified verification system in COSMO, present status and future plans

16:50-17:10 Claude Fischer (on behalf of Joel Stein and Marielle Amodei): Deterministic and fuzzy verification methods applied to precipitation and brightness temperature forecasts by high resolution models

17:10-17:30 Marco Arpagaus: Results with fuzzy verification methods with COSMO over Switzerland and Germany

17:30-17:50 Carl Fortelius (on behalf of Pertti Nurmi, Sigbritt Nasman and Antonios Niros): QPF verification in River Catchments with the SAL measure

17:50-18:00 Clive Wilson: Verification of precipitation forecasts over the UK

18:00-18:10 Clive Wilson: Warnings verification - severe weather index

18:10-18:30 Discussion

Wednesday, 8th October

8:15-8:35 Steve Noyes: EUMETNET and SRNWP: update and some thoughts from the Executive Director

8:35-10:45 Session on predictability (Chair: Tiziana Paccagnella)

8:35-8:50 Detlev Majewski: The convection-permitting COSMO-DE EPS and PEPS at DWD

8:50-9:15 Sarah Beare: Results from the MOGREPS Regional Ensemble - A Comparison of downscaled global perturbations versus perturbations from the ETKF for the regional ensemble

9:15-9:35 Yong Wang: Research and development on LAEF

9:35-9:55 Inger-Lise Frogner: EuroTEPS - targeted EPS for Europe

9:55-10:15 Trond Iversen: Shaping GLAMEPS

10:15-10:30 Carlos Santos: Predictability of precipitation with AEmet multimodel SREPS: assessment with high resolution observations

10:30-10:35 Edit Hagel: The quasi-operational LAMEPS system of the Hungarian Meteorological Service (introduction to poster)

Trygve Aspelien, Inger-Lise Frogner, Trond Iversen, Ole Vignes: Recent updates of the Norwegian operational LAMEPS (introduction to poster)

10:35-10:45 Discussion

10:45-11:15 COFFEE BREAK

11:15-13:15 Session on surface (Chair : Jeanette Onvlee)

11:15-11:35 Sander Tijm: Summary of the recent workshop on lake parameterization

11:35-11:55 Valery Masson: Description and validation of the CANOPY scheme within SURFEX

11:55-12:15 Maria Diez: Status on the CANARI analysis for HARMONIE

12:15-12:35 Bruce Macpherson: Current developments on surface aspects at Met Office

12:35-12:55 Jean-Francois Mahfouf: Main features of the latest version of SURFEX

12:55-13:15 Discussion

13:15-14:15 LUNCH BREAK

14:15-15:30 EWGLAM final discussion (Chair: Claude Fischer)

15:30- Excursion to Toledo and dinner sponsored by CRAY Inc.

Thursday, 9th October

SRNWP business meeting and Advisory Committee meeting

9:00-10:30 SRNWP business meeting and minutes (chair: Andras Horanyi)

10:30 CLOSURE OF THE "OFFICAL" PART OF THE MEETING

10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:00-13:00 SRNWP Advisory Committee Meeting (for the heads of Consortia)

END OF ALL EWGLAM/SRNWP EVENTS

14:30-18:00 ALADIN side event: joint LTM-CSSI meeting (only for ALADIN LTMs and CSSI members)

Tuesday, 7th October
8:30-10:30	Session on data assimilation (Chair: Bruce Macpherson)
8:30-8:45	Christoph Schraff: Status overview in COSMO
8:45-9:00	Massimo Bonavita: Ensemble DA in regional NWP
9:00-9:20	Claude Fischer: Recent developments in variational assimilation systems at Meteo-France and ALADIN partners
9:20-9.30	Gergely Boloni: Recent activities and ambitions in LACE Data Assimilation
9:30-9:45	Carlos Geijo: Recent observation impact studies with the HIRLAM 4DVAR assimilation algorithm
9:45-10:00	Magnus Lindskog: HARMONIE DA
10:00-10:05	Jean-Francois Caron: Accounting for Particular balance Properties Over Precipitation Areas within Variational Data Assimilation Systems (poster introduction)
10:05-10:10	Bruce Macpherson: The ETDA plan
10:10-10:30	Discussion (facilitator: Nils Gustafsson)
10:30-11:00	COFFEE BREAK
11:00-13:00	Session on dynamics (Chair: Mariano Hortal)
11:00-11:20	Terry Davies: Lateral boundary conditions and variable resolution in the UM
11:20-11:40	Filip Vana: Research and development in ALADIN and LACE groups
11:40-12:00	Peter Bechtold: Common developments and studies in ECMWF and Meteo France groups
12:00-12:20	Juan Simarro, Pierre Benard, Mariano Hortal, Agathe Untch: Some proposals about Vertical Finite Element discretisation in NH modelling
12:20-12:40	Detlev Majewski: Status and plans of numerics in COSMO
12:40:12:45	Kohei Aranami: Meso Scale Model and related R&D activities at the Japan Meteorological Agency (Introduction to poster)
12:45-13:00	Discussion
13:00-14:00	LUNCH BREAK
14:00-16:00	Session on physics (Chair : Sander Tijm)
14:00-14:25	Radmila Brozkova: ALARO physics; development of 3MT
14:25-14:50	Sander Tijm and Carl Fortelius: Coupling of HIRLAM and Air Chemistry; new ideas on the stable boundary layer
14:50-15:15	Valery Masson: ARPEGE/ALADIN and AROME physics developments
15:15-15:40	Mike Bush: Physics developments in the Met Office regional NAE model and the mesoscale model
15:40-16:00	Discussion
16:00-16:30	COFFEE BREAK
16:30-18:30	Session on verification (Chair: Clive Wilson)
16:30-16:50	Adriano Raspanti: VERSUS - the new unified verification system in COSMO, present status and future plans
16:50-17:10	Claude Fischer (on behalf of Joel Stein and Marielle Amodei): Deterministic and fuzzy verification methods applied to precipitation and brightness temperature forecasts by high resolution models
17:10-17:30	Marco Arpagaus: Results with fuzzy verification methods with COSMO over Switzerland and Germany
17:30-17:50	Carl Fortelius (on behalf of Pertti Nurmi, Sigbritt Nasman and Antonios Niros): QPF verification in River Catchments with the SAL measure
17:50-18:00	Clive Wilson: Verification of precipitation forecasts over the UK
18:00-18:10	Clive Wilson: Warnings verification - severe weather index
18:10-18:30	Discussion

Wednesday, 8th October
8:15-8:35	Steve Noyes: EUMETNET and SRNWP: update and some thoughts from the Executive Director
8:35-10:45	Session on predictability (Chair: Tiziana Paccagnella)
8:35-8:50	Detlev Majewski: The convection-permitting COSMO-DE EPS and PEPS at DWD
8:50-9:15	Sarah Beare: Results from the MOGREPS Regional Ensemble - A Comparison of downscaled global perturbations versus perturbations from the ETKF for the regional ensemble
9:15-9:35	Yong Wang: Research and development on LAEF
9:35-9:55	Inger-Lise Frogner: EuroTEPS - targeted EPS for Europe
9:55-10:15	Trond Iversen: Shaping GLAMEPS
10:15-10:30	Carlos Santos: Predictability of precipitation with AEmet multimodel SREPS: assessment with high resolution observations
10:30-10:35	Edit Hagel: The quasi-operational LAMEPS system of the Hungarian Meteorological Service (introduction to poster)
	Trygve Aspelien, Inger-Lise Frogner, Trond Iversen, Ole Vignes: Recent updates of the Norwegian operational LAMEPS (introduction to poster)
10:35-10:45	Discussion
10:45-11:15	COFFEE BREAK
11:15-13:15	Session on surface (Chair : Jeanette Onvlee)
11:15-11:35	Sander Tijm: Summary of the recent workshop on lake parameterization
11:35-11:55	Valery Masson: Description and validation of the CANOPY scheme within SURFEX
11:55-12:15	Maria Diez: Status on the CANARI analysis for HARMONIE
12:15-12:35	Bruce Macpherson: Current developments on surface aspects at Met Office
12:35-12:55	Jean-Francois Mahfouf: Main features of the latest version of SURFEX
12:55-13:15	Discussion
13:15-14:15	LUNCH BREAK
14:15-15:30	EWGLAM final discussion (Chair: Claude Fischer)
15:30-	Excursion to Toledo and dinner sponsored by CRAY Inc.

Thursday, 9th October
	SRNWP business meeting and Advisory Committee meeting
9:00-10:30	SRNWP business meeting and minutes (chair: Andras Horanyi)
10:30	CLOSURE OF THE "OFFICAL" PART OF THE MEETING
10:30-11:00	COFFEE BREAK
11:00-13:00	SRNWP Advisory Committee Meeting (for the heads of Consortia)
	END OF ALL EWGLAM/SRNWP EVENTS
14:30-18:00	ALADIN side event: joint LTM-CSSI meeting (only for ALADIN LTMs and CSSI members)

30th EWGLAM and 15th SRNWP meetings

6th -9th October 2008

Madrid, SPAIN

PROGRAMME

Monday, 6th October

30^th EWGLAM and 15^th SRNWP meetings

6^th -9^th October 2008