Agenda of the 2nd COSMO General Meeting

MeteoSwiss, Zürich, Switzerland 28-30 September 2000

see photos of the meeting
Thursday, 28 September 14.00 hrs - 18.45 hrs
Opening of the meeting J. Ambuehl 14.00
Organization of the meeting J. Ambuehl 14.05
Reports
Report of the third meeting of the Steering Committee, 25.2.00 J. Ambuehl 14.10
Report of the second meeting of the Work Package Coordinators, 15.6.00 (html) G. Doms 14.20
Status reports of the COSMO R&D areas and related scientific work
R&D Area 1: Data assimilation
Overview/summary C. Schraff 14.30
The global model GME - an overview D. Majewski 14.35
Developments on data assimilation at DWD, Part 1
  quality control (pdf)
  2m relative humidity (pdf)
  aircraft data (pdf)
C. Schraff 14.55
Developments on data assimilation at DWD, Part 2
  latent heat nudging (pdf)
  soil moisture analysis (pdf)
C. Schraff 15.15
The December 1999 storms D. Majewski 15.35
R&D Area 2: Numerical Aspects
Overview/summary J. Steppeler 15.45
The z-coordinate J. Steppeler 15.50
Stability analysis of the LM numerics J. Steppeler, P. Prohl 16.10
Coffee break 16.20 - 16.50
Filtering of the orography (pdf) A. Gassmann 16.50
Angular momentum G. Sakellaridis 17.10
A case suitable for testing of the z-coordinate and 2-way interaction G. Sakellaridis 17.20
Monotonic higher order numerical diffusion (ps) G. Doms 17.30
R&D Area 3: Physical Aspects
Overview/summary M. Arpagaus 17.40
TKE-based turbulence scheme M. Raschendorfer 17.45
The new surface layer scheme M. Raschendorfer 18.05
Recent changes to the LM physics E. Heise 18.25
Ice-breaker 18.45 - 19.30
Friday, 29 September 8.00 hrs - 12.35 hrs
Greetings from the Director of MeteoSwiss D. Keuerleber 08.00
R&D Area 3 continued
3-D transport of precipitation (pdf) A. Gassmann 08.05
The LSPM SVAT model C. Cassardo 08.25
R&D Area 4: Interpretation and Application
Generation of ensembles with a limited area model: Methodology and preliminary results A. Montani 08.45
R&D Area 5: Verification and Case Studies
Overview/summary C. Cacciamani 09.05
Verification of LM for Germany U. Damrath 09.10
Verification of LM for Switzerland F. Schubiger 09.30
Verification of LM precipitation during 1999-2000 in Northern Italy C. Cacciamani, L. Sandri, E. Minguzzi and M. Lazzeri 09.50
Coffee break 10.00 - 10.30
Weather regime dependent verification of vertical profiles (html) A. Rossa and M. Arpagaus 10.30
Verification of LM precipitation during the MAP-SOP using a special network of non-GTS data M. Ferri 10.40
Use of cloud classification for the verification of LM cloudiness S. Gallino 10.50
R&D Area 6: Reference Version and Implementation
Overview/summary U. Schaettler 11.00
LM-implementation at MeteoSwiss, Part 1 J.M. Bettems 11.05
LM-implementation at MeteoSwiss, Part 2 J.M. Bettems 11.25
Live presentation on Metview and comments G. de Morsier 11.35
LM-implementation at ARPA-SMR and LM output visualization with Vis5d D. Cesari and T. Paccagnella 11.55
The COSMO NWP-system (ps) U. Schaettler 12.15
Lunch at MeteoSwiss 12.35 - 14.00
Friday, 29 September 14.00 hrs - 18.30 hrs
Organization of the parallel workshops and definition of the tasks to be done
Plenary discussion J. Ambuehl and G. Doms 14.00
Parallel workshops of the R&D areas (including coffee break) 15.00 - 17.00
Meeting of the Steering Committee 15.00 - 17.00
Presentation of the workshop results
R&D 1 C. Schraff 17.00
R&D 2 J. Steppeler 17.10
R&D 3 M. Arpagaus 17.20
R&D 4 N.N. 17.30
R&D 5 C. Cacciamani 17.40
R&D 6 U. Schaettler 17.50
Plenary discussion J. Ambuehl and G. Doms 18.00
End of the session 18.30
Dinner at the Zeughauskeller in Zurich 19.30
Saturday, 30 September 8.30 hrs - 12.00 hrs
Strategic discussion J. Ambuehl 08.30
Coffee break 09.30
Representation of EUMETNET/SRNWP J. Quiby 10.00
EU-Projects: COST-717 A. Rossa 10.20
Implementation of a COSMO limited area ensemble system T. Paccagnella 10.40
Next Chairman of the Consortium J. Ambuehl 11.00
Any other business 11.30
End of the 2nd COSMO meeting 12.00