SRNWP Mini Workshop on Numerical Techniques

 

5-6 December 2006, Zagreb, Croatia

Hotel Dubrovnik, Hall Stradun 4

 

 

Tuesday 05 December 2006

 

09:00 - 09:30 welcome of participants

09:30 - 10:00 opening and welcome by Directors / organizational details

 

1. Physics/Dynamics (and related items)

 

10:00 – 10:30 N. Wood (UKMO):

A physically-based, second-order accurate, unconditionally stable diffusion scheme

 

10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break

 

10:45 - 11:15 P. Termonia (Aladin):

Stability and accuracy of the physics-dynamics coupling in spectral models

 

11:15 - 11:45 N. Wedi (ECMWF):

Non-hydrostatic IFS developments at ECMWF

 

11:45 - 14:00 Lunch Break

 

2. Particular schemes

 

14:00 - 14:30 M. Zerroukat (UKMO):

SLICE-3D: A three-dimensional conservative semi-Lagrangian scheme for transport problems

 

14:30 - 15:00 M. Tolstykh (INM/RAS):

Global variable-resolution semi-Lagrangian model SLAV: current status and further developments

 

15:00 - 15:30 F. Voitus (Aladin):

New approaches for the formulation of LBCs in spectral LAM models

 

15:30 - 15:50 Coffee Break

 

15:50 - 17:30 Discussions on topics of the day (Phys/Dyn, SL schemes, LBCs, ...)

 

 

Wednesday 06 December 2006

 

3. Specific NH numerical problems

 

09:30 - 10:00 M. Diamantakis (UKMO):

Exploring an iterative approach to the semi-implicit, semi-Lagrangian time-stepping in the Met Office non-hydrostatic model

 

10:00 - 10:30 P. Bénard (Aladin):

Status about NH applications at Météo-France

 

10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break

 

10:45 - 11:15 J. Vivoda (Aladin):

Design of ALADIN NH with VFE discretization

 

11:15 - 12:00 Discussion about NH numerical topics

 

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break

 

14:00 - 16:30 General discussions on free subjects (agenda to be established together)

 

16:30 Closing of meeting