AGENDA

EUMETNET SRNWP Interoperability Workshop  to be held at ECMWF,
Reading UK 14 -15 January 2008

 

 

Item

Topic

Contributor

1.

Opening of meeting at 1400 14 January

 

2.

Welcome

Alain Dickinson

3.

Administrative arrangements.

Jim Sharp (MetOffice)

Dominique Marbouty (ECMWF)

4.

Introductions

All

5.

Aims and objectives

·         History of bid to become RM for SRNWP        interoperability  

·         Benefits of interoperability.

·         Desired outcomes

 

Alain Dickinson, MetOffice

6.

Scope of Interoperability System and relevant application areas.

a.      Business Continuity

b.      Model initialisation and boundary condition exchange

c.      Verification

d.      Surface exchange modelling

e.      Ensembles

 

Terry Davies, MetOffice

 

 

Presentations

 

a. INM experience with multi-model ensemble

b.  Interoperability with regard to boundary conditions

 

 

 

Jose-Antonio Garcia Moya, INM

Alfred Hofstadler, ECMWF

7.

Tea/coffee at 1600.

 

 

8.

Current Work of Relevance

Experience in TIGGE with NETCDF vs GRIB2

 

Chair

 

 

Presentations

 

a.      ALADIN view of way forward

b.      Interoperability aspects of TIGGE LAM

     

c.      Experience in TIGGE with NETCDF vs GRIB 2

d.      Technical aspects of GRIB2 vs NETCDF

 

 

 

Jean-Francois Geleyn, ALADIN

Tiziana Paccagnella, ARPA-SIM PPT1 PPT2

Baudoin Raoult, ECMWF

Bruce Wright, Met Office

8.

End of day 1

Met Office hosted dinner at Pepe Sale, restaurant, Reading.

 

Day 2 start at 0900.

 

 

9

Summary of key technical issues from day 1

Ulrich Schaettler, Rachel North

10.

Formulation of Proposal for EUMETNET Council

·         Core or optional programme?

·         Funding model (full funding for consortia or coordination only)

·         Downstream maintenance of software.

·         Options to present

 

Alain Dickinson

 

11.

Coffee break followed by

Presentation of key outcomes and decisions of meeting

 

Chair and secretary

12.

Closure of meeting by 1200