31st EWGLAM and 16th SRNWP meetings 28th -1st October 2009 GREECE (Athen, Glyfada)

PROGRAMME

Monday, 28th September

8:30-9:00	Registration
9:00-9:15	Opening, introduction
Consortia presentations (Chair: Panagiotis Skrimizeas)
9:15-9:30	ALADIN (Claude Fischer on behalf of 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	ECMWF (Nils Wedi)
11:00-11:30	COFFEE/TEA BREAK
Review talks (Chair: Detlev Majewski)
11:30-12:00	Bruce Macpherson, Christoph Schraff: Review topic - Impact of High-Resolution Data Assimilation Claude Fischer: Assimilation versus spin-up model configurations tested with Arome-France
12:00-12:30	Pierre Benard: Review talk on dynamics
12:30-13:00	Sander Tijm: Review of workshop on moist processes in Norrkoping
13:00-14:00	BUFFET LUNCH
14:00-14:30	Jeanette Onvlee: Link with applications: status and plans Pierre Eckert: Why do we need (high resolution) models?
14:30-15:00	Chiara Marsigli: Review talk on ensemble prediction
15:00-15:30	Ulrich Schaettler: Review talk on system
15:30-16:00	Alena Trojakova: Summary of recent activities on surface aspects within SRNWP
16:00-16:30	COFFEE/TEA BREAK
16:30-17:00	Clive Wilson: Review of verification activities and developments Francis Schubiger: Slides of COSMO-activities in verification in 2009
17:00-18:00	Introduction to national posters (Chair: Nils Wedi)
	Austria (Yong Wang)
	Belgium (Alex Deckmyn)
	Bulgaria (Andrey Bogatchev)
	Croatia (Stjepan Ivatek-Sahdan)
	Czech Republic (Tomas Kral)
	Denmark (Bent Hansen Sass)
	Estonia (Aarne Mannik)
	Finland (Carl Fortelius)
	France (Olivier Riviere)
	Germany (Detlev Majewski)
	Greece (Panagiotis Skrimizeas)
	Hungary (Gergely Boloni)
	Italy (Adriano Raspanti)
	The Netherlands (Gerrit Burgers)
	Norway (Dag Bjorge)
	Poland: ALADIN group (Marek Jerczynski)
	Poland: COSMO group (Joanna Linkowska)
	Serbia (Ljiljana Dekic)
	Slovakia (Jozef Vivoda)
	Slovenia (Neva Pristov)
	Spain (Bartolome Orfila)
	Sweden (Per Dahlgren)
	Switzerland (Philippe Steiner)
	United Kingdom (Mike Bush)
	NO status report at this time: Cyprus, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Portugal, Romania (ALADIN/LACE), Romania (COSMO), Russia, Turkey.
18:00-19:00	Poster viewing session
	ICE BREAKER

 

Tuesday, 29th September
9:00-11:00	Data Assimilation Session (Chair: Bruce Macpherson)
9:00-9:20	Claude Fischer: Recent activities and outlook on data assimilation at Météo-France and partner ALADIN countries
9:20-9:40	Christoph Schraff: Studies with COSMO-DE on basic aspects in the convective scale: Gaussianity and systematic errors
9:40-10:00	Gergely Boloni: Developments in data assimilation for LACE
10:00-10:20	Nils Gustafsson: HARMONIE DA progress and Hybrid VAR/Ensemble DA
10:20-10:25	Kaarel Kimmel: High Resolution Re-analysis for Baltic Sea Region During the 1965-2005 Period (poster introduction)
10:25-10:35	Bruce Macpherson: Progress in regional data assimilation at the Met Office
10:35-11:00	Discussion (facilitator: Claude Fischer)
11:00-11:30	COFFEE/TEA BREAK
11:30-13:30	Predictability and EPS Session (Chair: Chiara Marsigli)
11:30-12:00	Trond Iversen: GLAMEPS towards operational production
12:00-12:30	Susanne Theis: Ensemble experiments based on the convection-allowing model COSMO-DE
12:30-12:45	Warren Tennant: Perturbations of surface fields in MOGREPS
12:45-12:50	L. Descamps, C. Labadie, A. Joly, E. Bazile, J. Nicolau: Ensemble Prediction at Météo France (poster introduction by Olivier Riviere)
12:50-12:55	Andrea Montani: COSMO-LEPS (poster introduction by Chiara Marsigli)
12:55-13:20	Discussion
13:20-14:15	BUFFET LUNCH
14:15-16:15	Physics Session (Chair: Bent Hansen Sass)
14:15-14:35	Neva Pristov: ALARO physics developments
14:35-14:55	Federico Grazzini: COSMO physics developments
14:55-15:15	Olivier Riviere: ALADIN and AROME physics developments
15:15-15:35	Sander Tijm: HIRLAM and HARMONIE developments
15:35-15:55	Mike Bush: High resolution (horizontal and vertical) model developments at the MetOffice
15:55-16:15	Discussion
16:15-16:45	COFFEE/TEA BREAK
16:45-18:30	Verification Session (Chair: Clive Wilson)
16:45-17:05	Adriano Raspanti: New results in COSMO about fuzzy verification activities and Conditional Verification with VERSUS
17:05-17:25	Isabelle Sanchez: Deterministic and fuzzy verification of the cloudiness of high resolution operational models
17:25-17:40	Marek Jerczynski: Weighted median filters for meteorological data analysis (15 minutes)
17:40-18:00	Clive Wilson: SRNWP-V programme status
18:00-18:30	Discussion

 

Wednesday, 30th September
09:00-11:00	Dynamics Session (Chair: Pierre Benard)
09:00-09:20	Detlev Majewski: COSMO: Conservative Dynamical Core (CDC) project
09:20-09:40	Filip Vana: ALADIN/LACE progress report on dynamics
09:40-10:00	Piet Termonia: Status on lateral boundary conditions and initialization
10:00-10:20	Mariano Hortal: Status and plans of HIRLAM's dynamics
10:20-10:40	Terry Davies: Variable resolution and lateral boundary conditions
10:40-10:45	Ishida Junichi: Development of non-hydrostatic models at the JMA (poster introduction)
10:45-11:00	Discussion
11:00-11:30	COFFEE/TEA BREAK
11:30-13:30	Surface Session (Chair: Alena Trojakova)
11:30-11:50	Nils Wedi (ECMWF): Recent progress in surface modelling and data assimilation at ECMWF
11:50-12:10	Ludovic Auger (ALADIN): SURFEX and EKF surface assimilation at Météo France
12:10-12:30	Bruce Macpherson (MetOffice) : Recent progress in land surface modelling and data assimilation at the Met Office
12:30-12:50	Christoph Schraff (COSMO): Status overview of the COLOBOC project
12:50-13:10	Sander Tijm (HIRLAM) : Recent updates of the HIRLAM surface scheme
13:10-13:30	Discussion
13:30-14:30	BUFFET LUNCH
14:30-16:00	System (interoperability) Session (Chair: Ulrich Schaettler)
14:30-14:45	Ulrich Schaettler: COSMO activities in the Interoperability Programme
14:45-15:05	Andrey Bogatchev and Claude Fischer: ALADIN activities in the Interoperability Programme
15:05-15:25	Per Dahlgren: Pre-processing of GTS-BUFR data into BUFR-templates usable by HIRLAM and HARMONIE
15:25-15:45	Detlev Majewski: Convection resolving COSMO implementations in Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania and Switzerland
15:45-16:00	Discussion
16:00-	EXCURSION (Visit of the New Museum of Acropolis and workshop dinner)

 

Thursday, 1st October
	EWGLAM final discussion, SRNWP business meeting and Advisory Committee meeting
9:00-10:00	EWGLAM final discussion (Chair: Mike Bush)
10:00-10:30	Steve Noyes: EUMETNET and SRNWP: update and some thoughts from the Executive Director
10:30-11:00	COFFEE/TEA BREAK
11:00-12:00	SRNWP Business Meeting (Chair: Andras Horanyi)
12:00	CLOSURE OF THE "OFFICAL" PART OF THE MEETING
12:00-13:00	BUFFET LUNCH
13:00-16:00	SRNWP Advisory Committee Meeting (Participants: Executive Director, ET chairpersons, heads of Consortia, SRNWP PMs) Marco Arpagaus COSMO Pierre Benard, SRNWP ETdyn Gergely Boloni, SRNWP ETDA Terry Davies, MetOffice Piet Termonia (deputising Jean-Francois Geleyn), ALADIN Andras Horanyi, SRNWP Dijana Klaric, LACE Chiara Marsigli, SRNWP ETEPS Steve Noyes, EUMETNET Executive Director Jeanette Onvlee, HIRLAM, ETapp Ulrich Schaettler, SRNWP ETsystem Sander Tijm, SRNWP ETphys and ETsfc (until 14:15) Clive Wilson SRNWP-V (SRNWP-I), SRNWP ETverif