Programme of the 44th EWGLAM and 29th SRNWP Meeting

(all times in CEST)

 

Monday, 26th September
08:30-09:00 Registration and Poster set-up
09:00-09:10 Opening: Daniel Gellens, Director of RMI
09:10-09:15 Balázs Szintai: Introduction to the meeting's programme
 Consortia Presentations (Chair: Piet Termonia; co-chair: Christoph Wittmann)
09:15-09:30 Met Office (Stuart Webster)
09:30-09:45 ACCORD (Claude Fischer)
09:45-10:00 HIRLAM (Jeanette Onvlee)
10:00-10:15 LACE (Martina Tudor)
10:15-10:45COFFEE BREAK
10:45-11:00 COSMO (Christoph Gebhardt)
11:00-11:30 ECMWF (Peter Bechtold)
 Review talks (Chair: Dmitrii Mironov; co-chair: Yann Seity)
11:30-11:50 Nils Wedi: "Destination Earth - Opportunities & Challenges"
11:50-12:20 Sylvie Leroyer: "The fascinating albeit unpaved road for subkilometer NWP systems : a Canadian perspective"
12:20-12:50 Humphrey Lean: "On the challenges of hectometric-scale models for operational application"
12:50-14:00LUNCH BREAK
14:00-14:30 Sue Grimmond: "High resolution NWP modelling: evaluation and developments"
14:30-15:00 Alejandro Hermoso: "Potential of stochastic methods for improving convection-permitting ensemble forecasts of extreme events"
 EUMETNET presentations (Chair: Francesca Marcucci; co-chair: Stéphane Vannitsem)
15:00-15:15 Aline Kraai: "Developments in EUMETNET"
15:15-15:30 Balázs Szintai: "Actual coordination activities within C-SRNWP"
15:30-15:50COFFEE BREAK
 Session on Dynamics (Chair: Daan Degrauwe; co-chair: Colm Clancy)
15:50-16:10 Michael Baldauf: "The BRIDGE project - Basic Research for ICON with Discontinuous Galerkin Extension"
16:10-16:30 Petra Smolikova: "First attempts to implement horizontal features to the turbulence scheme TOUCANS of ACCORD"
16:30-16:50 Fabrice Voitus: "Improving the robustness of the constant-coefficient ICI scheme of the dynamical core of AROME model"
16:50-17:10 Christian Kuehnlein: "Developing a performance-portable finite-volume model for high-resolution NWP"
17:10-17:20DISCUSSIONS
 Poster Session (chair: Balázs Szintai)
17:20-18:20 Introduction to national posters
18:20-20:00ICEBREAKER AND POSTER VIEWING SESSION

 

Tuesday, 27th September
 Thematic sessions of Expert Teams:
 Session on Link with Applications (Chair: Jeanette Onvlee; co-chair:)
08:30-08:50 Roger Randriamampianina: "On-Demand Extremes Digital Twin"
08:50-09:10 Andrzej Mazur: "Operational forecasts of the air dispersion of hazardous pollutants based on results of COSMO model"
09:10-09:30 Aurore Porson: "Exploiting the benefits of testbeds in the Met Office R2O-O2R cycle"
09:30-09:50 Sander Tijm/Eoin Whelan: UWC-West operational cooperation: organization aspects and status
09:50-10:10 Åke Johansson: "A set of deterministic and probabilistic forecast products for aviation purpose"
10:10-10:30 Alaoui Badreddine: "New AI based weighting strategy for 2m temperature and 10m wind speed forecasting over Moroccan airports using the analog ensemble method"
10:30-10:40DISCUSSIONS
10:40-11:00COFFEE BREAK
 Session on Predictability (Chair: Chiara Marsigli; co-chair:)
11:00-11:20 Clemens Wastl: "EPS activities in RC-LACE"
11:20-11:40 Chiara Marsigli: "From COSMO ensembles to ICON ensembles"
11:40-12:00 Aurore Porson: "Use of multi-model convective-scale ensembles for high-profile rainfall cases over the UK"
12:00-12:20 Carlo Cafaro: "Evaluating different convective-scale ensembles over the UK"
12:20-12:30DISCUSSIONS
12:30-13:30LUNCH BREAK
 Session on Verification (Chair: Marion Mittermaier; co-chair:)
13:30-13:50 Flora Gofa: Overview of consortium verification activities
13:50-14:10 Juan Jesus Gonzalez Aleman: Testing very high-resolution simulations in HARMONIE-AROME
14:10-14:30 Joel Stein and Fabien Stoop: Neighborhood pooling for evaluating ensemble forecasts of binary events with the Brier Divergence
14:30-14:50 Marion Mittermaier Update on METplus implementation at the Met Office
14:50-14:55 Sebastian Cole et al. :Two METplus implementation posters
14:55-15:05DISCUSSION
15:05-15:30COFFEE BREAK
15:30-17:30 Special Session: Future evolution of HPC architectures and the relation of these to earth system modelling (Chair: Daniel Santos; co-chair: Marco Arpagaus)
17:30-19:00 ACCORD Local Team Managers meeting (for LTMs or their representatives)

 

Wednesday, 28th September
 Parallel Sessions
09:00-10:30 Parallel session on surface aspects
09:00-10:30 Parallel session on verification
Discussion on the following topics:
  1. Evaluation systems coping with the changes in modelling systems
  2. Implications of increasing complexity of the modelling chain to verification
  3. Ability of NMHSs to develop and maintain own verification software
  4. Community tools for verification
10:30-11:00COFFEE BREAK
 Thematic sessions of Expert Teams:
 Session on Upper Air Physics (Chair: Mike Bush; co-chair: Anne McCabe)
11:00-11:20 Yann Seity: "Recent progress in Météo-France physics (AROME)"
11:20-11:40 Bogdan Bochenek: "Physics parametrisations developments and plans in RC LACE"
11:40-12:00 Anke Finnenkoetter: "Updates on the Met Office RAL3 configuration"
12:00-12:20 Matthias Raschendorfer: "Ongoing and new physics development in COSMO"
12:20-12:40 Emily Gleeson: "Recent progress in HARMONIE-AROME physics"
12:40-13:00 Kristian Pagh Nielsen: "Spectral coupling between the atmosphere and snow surfaces"
13:00-13:15DISCUSSION
13:15-14:15LUNCH BREAK
 Parallel Sessions
14:15-16:00 Parallel session on predictability
14:15 - 14:45
  • "Towards ICON-LEPS", I. Cerenzia and C. Marsigli (10 minutes)
  • Discussion about possible collaborations in CP ensemble in Europe

14:45 - 15:15
15:15 - 16:00
  • Discussion about the requirements for next EUMETNET phase
14:15-16:00 Parallel session on physics
16:00-22:00EXCURSION AND DINNER

 

Thursday, 29th September
 Thematic sessions of Expert Teams:
 Session on Surface Aspects
(Chair: Patrick Samuelsson; co-chair: Helga Tóth)
08:40-09:05 Jürgen Helmert: "Overview of COSMO surface activities"
09:05-09:30 Gianpaolo Balsamo or Patricia de Rosnay: "Overview of land data assimilation and modelling advances at ECMWF"
09:30-10:00 Patrick Samuelsson and Ekaterina Kurzeneva: "ACCORD overview of surface activities"
10:00-10:20 Sandro Oswald: "Verification and updates of the ESA-CCI land cover product"
10:20-10:30DISCUSSIONS
10:30-11:00COFFEE BREAK
 Session on Data Assimilation
(Chair: Roger Randriamampianina; co-chair: Philippe Chambon)
11:00-11:20 Marco Milan: "The Met-Office LAM DA system, present and future"
11:20-11:40 Magnus Lindskog: "NWP based nowcasting in ACCORD"
11:40-12:00 Benedikt Strajnar: "Use of new types of observations in ACCORD"
12:00-12:20 Loïk Berre: "EnVar in OOPS for ACCORD"
12:20-12:40 Christoph Schraff: "Update on KENDA and a particle filter"
12:40-13:00 Martin Ridal: "Use of radar radial winds from the OPERA network"
13:00-13:10DISCUSSIONS
13:10-14:00LUNCH BREAK
 Closing Session (chair: Balázs Szintai)
14:00-14:40 Summary of parallel sessions by Expert Team Chairs
Summary of EWGLAM Surface Sessions
14:40-15:00 EWGLAM final discussion
15:00END OF THE MEETING