33rd EWGLAM and 18th SRNWP meetings 10th - 13rd October 2011 Tallinn (Estonia)

PROGRAMME

Monday, 10th October

08:30-09:00	Registration and Poster set-up
09:00-09:10	Opening, introduction (Director of EMHI: Jaan Saar)
09:10-09:15	Former SRNWP Programme Manager - summary of SRNWP membership changes introduction of "newcomers", main structure of the programme, changes in the C-SRNWP programme
	Consortia Presentations (chair Per Unden)
09:15-09:30	ALADIN (Piet Termonia)
09:30-09:45	COSMO (Marco Arpagaus)
09:45-10:00	HIRLAM (Jeanette Onvlee)
10:00-10:15	LACE (Dijana Klaric)
10:15-10:30	Met Office (Mike Bush)
10:30-11:00	ECMWF (Sylvie Malardel)
11:00-11:30	TEA/COFFEE BREAK
	Review talks (chair: Detlev Majewski)
11:30-12:00	Alex Deckmyn, Mikhail Tsyrulnikov: Review of the joint ensemble prediction and ensemble data assimilation workshop in Bologna
12:00-12:30	Laura Rontu: Radiation parameterisations in mesoscale NWP - views for discussion
12:30-13:00	Jeanette Onvlee: Review talk on link with applications -- general overview, consistency of site specific versus gridded model products
13:00-14:00	LUNCH BREAK
14:00-14:30	Josh Hacker: Recent progress in LAM-EPS research and implementation: Focus on North America
14:30-15:00	Ulrich Schaettler, Mike Bush: 3 years of Interoperability: Results and Leftovers
15:00-15:30	Jean-François Mahfouf: On the use of in-situ data exchanged through SRNWP
15:30-16:00	TEA/COFFEE BREAK
16:00-16:30	Clive Wilson: Review talk on SRNWP-verification programme
	National posters (chair: Sylvie Malardel)
16:30-16:45	Solfrid Agerstern: Overview of the MetCoop project
16:45-18:00	Poster viewing session
17:00-18:00	Austria Yong Wang Belgium Alex Deckmyn Croatia Tomislav Kovacic Czech Republic Radmila Brozkova Denmark Bent Hansen Sass Estonia Andres Luhamaa Finland Carl Fortelius France Yann Seity Germany Detlev Majewski Hungary Roger Randriamampianina the Netherlands Sander Tijm Norway Jelena Bojarova Poland: ALADIN group Marek Jerczynski Poland: COSMO group Joanna Linkowska Portugal Vanda Costa Romania Simona Tascu Russia Inna Rozhinkina and Gdaly Rivin Spain Bartolome Orfila Slovenia Neva Pristov Sweden Per Unden Switzerland Philippe Steiner Turkey Ersin Kucukkaraca United Kingdom Mike Bush
18:00-19:00	Icebreaker

 

Tuesday, 11th October
	Thematic sessions of Expert Teams: data assimilation, dynamics, upper air physics, surface
09:00-11:15	Session on data assimilation (chair: Jean-Francois Mahfouf)
09:00-09:20	Claude Fischer: ALADIN data assimilation activities
09:20-09:40	Gergely Boloni: LACE data assimilation activities
09:40-10:00	Christoph Schraff: COSMO data assimilation activities
10:00-10:20	Bruce Macpherson: MetOffice data assimilation activities
10:20-10:40	Jelena Bojarova: HIRLAM data assimilation activities
10:40-10:43	Poster - Martin Ridal and Martin Gronsleth: The current status and future plans in observation handling / assimilation of radar data in the HIRLAM community
10:43-10:46	Poster - Jelena Bojarova: Different flavours of flow-dependent data assimilation (the HIRLAM community), The current status and future plans in observation handling/assimilation of radar data in the HIRLAM community
10:46-10:49	Poster - Magnus Lindskog, Siebren de Haan, Sigurdur Thorsteinsson et al.: Experiences with Rapid Update Cycling
10:49-10:59	Gergely Boloni: Discussions about NWP requirements towards OPERA
10:59-11:20	DISCUSSIONS
11:20-11:50	TEA/COFFEE BREAK
11:50-13:00	Session on dynamics and lateral boundary conditions (chair: Mariano Hortal)
11:50-12:10	Sylvie Malardel: MPDATA for semi-Lagrangian interpolation in the IFS
12:10-12:25	Michael Baldauf: The 'conservative dynamical core' priority project and other current dynamics developments in the COSMO model
12:25-12:40	Juan Simarro: A semi-implicit non-hydrostatic covariant dynamical kernel using spectral representation in the horizontal and a height based vertical coordinate
12:40-12:43	Poster - Kohei Aranami: Recent developments of a non-hydrostatic model at JMA
12:43-12:46	Poster - Sylvie Malardel: High resolution simulations of academic convective systems with the small planet configuration of the IFS
12:46-13:00	DISCUSSION
13:00-14:00	LUNCH BREAK
14:00-16:00	Session on upper air physics (chair: Sander Tijm)
14:00-14:20	Filip Vana: TOUCANS - new turbulence scheme for ALARO physics
14:20-14:40	Federico Grazzini and Sander Tijm: Stable boundary layer model intercomparison
14:40-15:00	Yann Seity (on behalf of Valery Masson): Latest developments in AROME
15:00-15:20	Federico Grazzini: COSMO upper-air physics activities
15:20-15:35	Neva Pristov: Latest developments in ALARO
15:35-15:50	Mike Bush: Physics developments at the Met Office
15:50-16:00	DISCUSSION
16:00-16:30	TEA/COFFEE BREAK
16:30-18:30	Session on surface (Mike Bush)
16:30-16:50	Jean-Francois Mahfouf (on behalf of ECMWF): Ongoing developments at ECMWF
16:50-17:10	Christoph Schraff: COSMO/COLOBOC final report
17:10-17:30	Bruce Macpherson: Plans with JULES and data assimilation
17:30-17:50	Laura Rontu: HIRLAM experiences on snow in NWP
17:50-18:10	Jean-Francois Mahfouf: Review of recent developments at ALADIN
18:10-18:30	DISCUSSION

 

Wednesday, 12th October
	Thematic sessions of Expert Teams: verification, predictability, link with applications
08:30-10:00	Session on verification (chair: Ulrich Schaettler)
08:30-08:50	Carl Fortelius- Intercomparison of radiative fluxes in the SURFEX TEB and observations from a moving platform in the streets of Helsinki
08:50-09:10	Bent Hansen Sass: A verification scheme for high resolution models considering 'significant' or 'extreme' weather and upscaling principles
09:10-09:40	Clive Wilson: Are high resolution precipitation forecasts better? Wind resource identification and verification COSMO-activities in verification
09:40-10:00	DISCUSSION
10:00-10:30	TEA/COFFEE BREAK
10:30-12:30	Session on predictability (chair: Susanne Theis)
10:30-10:48	Warren Tennant and Sarah Beare: New schemes to perturb near-surface variables in MOGREPS
10:48-11:06	Yong Wang: New developments at ALADIN-LAEF
11:06-11:24	Trond Iversen and Alex Deckmyn: GLAMEPS and HarmonEPS: LAM ensemble prediction systems under development
11:24-11:42	Inger-Lise Frogner: High Resolution Ensemble Prediction of a Polar Low
11:42-12:00	Chiara Marsigli, Andrea Montani, Tiziana Paccagnella: Evaluation of different perturbation approaches to provide initial and boundary conditions to a short-range LAM ensemble
12:00-12:03	Poster - Christian Keil: The convective time scale as indicator of predictability
12:03-12:06	Poster - Warren Tennant: New schemes to perturb near-surface variables in MOGREPS - global model aspects
12:06-12:09	Poster - Christian Keil: Research on data assimilation and ensemble predictions in Munich
12:09-12:14	Tiziana Paccagnella: TIGGE-LAM archiving as a task of the GEO WOW project
15:10-15:30	DISCUSSION
12:30-13:30	LUNCH BREAK
13:30-15:30	Session on link with applications (chair: Jeanette Onvlee)
13:30-13:50	Sylvie Malardel (on behalf of the ECMWF MACC team): ECMWF/MACC activities
13:30-13:50	Bent Hansen Sass: The ENVIRO-HIRLAM system
13:50-14:10	Bent Hansen Sass (on behalf of the EuMetChem team): The COST-action ES1004 (EuMetChem)
14:10-14:30	Detlev Majewski: Fully coupled environmental modelling based on COSMO-ART
14:50-15:10	Mike Bush: Met Office NAME and AQUM models
15:10-15:30	DISCUSSION
15:30-	EXCURSION AND DINNER (at Restaurant Maikrahv)

 

Thursday, 13th October
	Thematic sessions of Expert Teams: system (interoperability)
09:00-10:30	Session on system (interoperability; chair: Philippe Steiner)
09:00-09:30	All: Consortia progress on Interoperability, (Aladin status on interoperability)
09:30-09:50	Clive Wilson (on behalf of Glenn Greed): UM on different grids and computers
09:50-10:10	Ulrich Schaettler: COSMO, ICON and computers
10:10-10:30	DISCUSSION
10:30-11:00	TEA/COFFEE BREAK
	EWGLAM final discussion, SRNWP business meeting and SRNWP Advisory Committee meeting
11:00-12:00	EWGLAM final discussion (chair: Carl Fortelius)
12:00-13:00	SRNWP business meeting (chair: Andras Horanyi), Short summary on ECMWF SAC (Gergely Boloni)
13:00	CLOSURE OF THE "OFFICIAL" PART OF THE MEETING
13:00-14:00	LUNCH BREAK
14:00-15:30	SRNWP Advisory Committee Meeting
15:30-16:00	TEA/COFFEE BREAK
16:00-17:00	SRNWP Advisory Committee Meeting (continuation)

 

Friday, 14th October
09:00-12:30	ALADIN Local Team Manager meeting (only for the ALAIDN staff; location: EMHI building)