EUMETNET
C-SRNWP Programme
Report 2006-2: April - June
Main point
At its 27th Meeting (4-6
April, Toulouse), the EUMETNET Council has adopted all the recommendations made
by the Working Group of the Workshop "A Vision for NWP in Europe". These
recommendations have been classified in 6 themes (see http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/nwp/external/nwp-vision/index.html).
The SRNWP Programme Manager has started work for the realisation of the propositions
of the theme "Quick Wins":
- Identifying a common format for the exchange of a limited set of
products for the benefits of forecasters: contact has been taken with the "Working Group for the Cooperation between European Forecasters". This Group will
examine this Recommendation at its 12th
Meeting (29-30 September 2006, Athens).
- SRNWP Programme will define at its next
general meeting (11-12 October 2006, Zurich) a draft programme proposal for spring
2007: The work has started and a draft proposal will be sent to the SRNWP
National Representatives in the course of next August for discussion at the
next SRNWP Annual Meeting.
Conferences
and Workshops
11-12 May, ECMWF: E-SAT Meeting 2006 (E-SAT = EUCOS
- Scientific Advisory Team).
At this meeting, the SRNWP Co-ordinator presented
to the participants
- an overview and the conclusions of the meeting "A Vision for NWP in Europe"
- the 3 Resolutions voted by
the NMS delegates at the last SRNWP Annual Meeting (5th October 2005,
Ljubljana; see http://srnwp.cscs.ch/Annual_Meetings/2005/SRNWPreport.htm).
Resolution 1: Strategy of EUCOS II (2007-2011).
The Resolution could not be
accepted by E-SAT as the strategy proposed by the SRNWP Programme does not fit
with the PB-OBS recommendations and the decisions taken by Council at its 27th
Meeting. The SRNWP Coordinator continues to think that for EUCOS the concentration
on the synoptic scale only is no longer sufficient and that the mesoscale
should be added to the Programme.
Resolution 2: Coding and dissemination of the upper air soundings
in BUFR code next to the TEMP code.
Although recommended by the
- WWW Department of WMO
(format has been defined by the Commission for Basic System)
- 14th Session of the WMO
Regional Association VI (7-15 September 2005 at Heidelberg, Germany), Document
APP_WP4
- PB-OBS, 11th or 12th Meeting
(minutes unfortunately no longer on-line at the EUCOS web site)
- E-SAT Meeting 2006 (minutes
not yet on-line)
it is disappointing to see
that the upper air soundings are still disseminated only with the antiquated
TEMP code which does not allow the precision needed by the mesoscale models
(time of the measurements, spatial and temporal resolutions).
Resolution 3: Radar compositing
The decision taken at the
23rd Council Meeting to forbid development work for European radar composite in
the frame of the OPERA Programme has been subsequently relaxed by Council:
compositing development work is now allowed for data quality purposes and is in
progress at the Meteorological Office. SRNWP is satisfied and no further demand
or action is presently planed.
17-18 May, Sofia (Bulgaria):
Third SRNWP Workshop on Mesoscale Verification
This workshop took place in
Sofia simultaneously with the HIRLAM All Staff Meeting 2006 and the 16th ALADIN
Workshop. This has allowed the participants to have contacts with colleagues of
the two other meetings and HIRLAM/ALADIN colleagues to attend some presentations
on verification.
The report of the meeting and
the recommendations passed are on-line:
- http://srnwp.cscs.ch/Lead_Centres/Verif2006-Report.htm
- http://srnwp.cscs.ch/Lead_Centres/Verif2006-Recommendations.htm
KNMI - which is the Lead
Centre for Verification and has co-organized this meeting - has not yet put the
scientific presentations on the web.
20-22 June, Paris: First
Workshop on Remote Sensing and Modelling of Surface Properties
This workshop jointly
organized by the "Observatoire de Paris" and NOAA/NESDIS has been
characterized by a large participation of US and Canadian scientists and a
rather week participation of the European NMS.
The meeting was centred on
the determination by satellite of the soil emissivities and skin temperatures
in order to use with the highest possible accuracy the soil sensitive satellite
channels for temperature and humidity profiling over land.
As this meeting has been very
stimulating, it has been decided to re-conduct it in two year time, very
probably in the USA.
Outlook July - December 2006
Main points
- Preparation of the SRNWP
Annual Meeting 2006 (9-12 October, Zurich)
- Preparation of a draft
"Programme Decision" for an enlarged SRNWP Programme, as decided at
the "A Vision for NWP in Europe" Meeting. Dissemination of this draft
on the 15th-20th of August for discussion at the SRNWP Annual Meeting 2006
- Continuation of the works
connected with the "Quick Wins" selected at the "SRNWP Vision
Meeting"
- Consultations to
investigate the possibility to set up a European THORPEX TIGGE-LAM.
This is a proposition under
the theme "European interactive multi-model LAM" decided at the
"A Vision for NWP in Europe" (15-17 March 2006, ECMWF).
- Tentative: Preparation with
the Chairman of the Second NWP Vision Workshop early 2007, as proposed by
Meteo-France (see minutes of the 27th Council), with presentation of the draft
for the enlarged SRNWP Programme.
As far as I know, it is not
yet decided whether this meeting will take place or not.
- Organisation of a Joint
SRNWP-OPERA Meeting (tentative)
Conferences
and Workshops
18-22 September, Bucharest (Romania): COSMO General Meeting 2006
9-12 October, Zurich
(Switzerland): 28th EWGLAM and 13th SRNWP Meetings
4-8 December, Landshut
(Germany): Second THORPEX International Science Symposium