Agenda of the 5th COSMO General Meeting

Held at Langen, Germany, 24-26 September 2003

Wednesday, 24 September, 09.00 hrs-18.30 hrs
Opening of the Meeting S. Mildner, DWD Vice-President 09.00-09.05
Organization of the Meeting D. Frühwald 09.05-09.15
Report of the Steering Committee M. Capaldo 09.15-09.25
Report of the Scientific Project Manager T. Paccagnella 09.25-09.35
Working Group 1: Data assimilation C. Schraff
Overview C. Schraff 09.35-09.45
Assimilation of GPS Derived Integrated Water Vapour in aLMo: Impact Study with COST 716 Near Real Time Data (1.26Mb, pdf) J.-M. Bettems 09.45-10.00
Results and Status of Assimilation of GPS-Derived IWV in LM (1.74Mb, pdf) M. Tomassini and C. Schraff 10.00-10.15
Latent Heat Nudging in aLMo: Experiments with Idealized Supercell Simulations (1.4Mb, pdf) D. Leuenberger 10.15-10.35
Coffee Break 10.35-11.05
Progress in Latent Heat Nudging: Real Case Studies (1.23Mb) S.Klink 11.05-11.25
1-D VAR Assimilation of TOVS Radiances (2.41MB, pdf) M.Bonavita 11.25-11.35
WG1 Poster Presentations:
Horizontal and Vertical Correlation Functions A.Vocino
Effects of the Surface Temperature, Humidity and Surface Wind Assimilation on 24-hour LM Forecast over Poland (631kb, pdf) J.Linkowska and B. Krzeminski
Working Group 2: Numerical Aspects J.Steppeler
Overview J. Steppeler 11.35-11.45
Status of the LM Z-Coordinate Version at DWD J.Steppeler and H.-W. Bitzer 11.45-12.05
Status of the LM SI-SL Z-Coordinate Version at ARPA-SMR D. Cesari and L. Bonaventura 12.05-12.25
Lunch Break 12.25-13.40
The Formulation of the Dynamical Lower Boundary Condition A. Gassmann 13.40-13.50
Numerical Experiments with the L-and the CP-Grid towards a Possible Improvement of the LM H.-J. Herzog 13.50-14.10
Experiments with Cloud Water Content in a 50-m Grid LM in the Framework of the CLOUDMAP 2 Project C. Marty and P.Kaufmann 14.10-14.30
WG2 Poster Presentations:
First Results with RK Time-Integration and High-Order Spatial Discretization J. Förstner and G. Doms
Working Group 3: Physical Aspects M.Arpagaus
Overview M. Arpagaus 14.30-14.40
A New Formulation of Turbulence and Surface Layer Schemes Using the Concept of Surface Area Indices M.Raschendorfer 14.40-15.00
Parameterization of Lakes in NWP-Models: Description of a Lake Model and Single-Column Tests D. Mironov 15.00-15.20
Coffee Break 15.20-15.50
Kain-Fritsch Convection Scheme (7.7Mb, ppt) M. Arpagaus 15.50-16.00
PBL Clouds in LM-Intermediate Results D.Mironov 16.00-16.10
Further Development of the LM Physics Package (0.5kb, doc) E.Heise 16.10-16.30
Improving the Simulated Precipitation Distribution in Mountainous Terrain in the LM: A Case Study for 20/02/2002 (1.8Mb, pdf) J.-P. Schulz 16.30-16.40
WG3 Poster Presentations:
3-D Turbulence G. Vogel
Tuning of the Cloud-Ice Scheme G. Doms
Working Group 4: Interpretation and Applications P.Eckert
Overview P. Eckert 16.40-16.50
Operational Implementation of COSMO-LEPS at ECMWF (pdf, 475Kb) A.Montani 16.50-17.10
COSMO-LEPS Objective Verification (pps, 360Kb) C.Marsigli 17.10-17.30
Poster Session WG1-WG3 17.30-18.00
Ice-Breaker 18.00
Meeting of the WP-Coordinators 20.00-22.00
Thursday, 25 September 9.00 hrs-18.20hrs
Working Group 4: Interpretation and Applications, continued P. Eckert
First Results from SLEPS (pps, 360Kb) A. Walser 09.00-09.15
Postprocessing of LM Weather Parameters (pps, 1.9Mb) S. Theis, A. Hense, U. Damrath and V. Renner 09.15-09.30
A Comparison of Different EPS Postprocessing Methods (1Mb) P. Eckert 09.30-09.40
WG4 Poster Presentations
COSMO-LEPS Performance for the Elbe Flood C.Marsigli
Real-Time Direct Link between Meteorological and Dispersion Models A. Mazur
Working Group 5: Verification and Case Studies C.Cacciamani
Overview C.Cacciamani 09.40-09.50
Overview of Verification Activities in 2003 at MeteoSwiss with a Special Emphasis on the Results of the aLMo-Testchain with IFS Boundary Conditions F. Schubiger). 09.50-10.20
Systematic Errors of LM Forecasts Concerning Vertical Profiles of Weather Elements in the Whole LM Area and Surface Weather Elements over Germany U. Damrath,U. Pflüger 10.20-10.50
Coffee Break 10.50-11.20
Verification of Lokal Modell/Lami in Italy P.Emiliani, M. Ferri and E. Veccia 11.20-11.50
Examples of Verification of the LM Results vs. Synoptic Observations and Vertical Soundings A. Mazur and K.Starosta 11.50-12.10
WG5 Poster Presentations:
LM 2.8 Simulations of MAP IOP2b T.Paccagnella
Current State of Verification of LM Vertical Profiles U. Pflüger
Verification of Precipitation Using the High Density Network over Germany U. Damrath
Verification of Lokal Modell/Lami Operational Suites at ARPA-SMR: Impact of the Nudging-Based Assimilation Scheme F. Boccanera, C. Marsigli and P. Patruno
Precipitation over Northern Italy and Vertical Profiles E. Oberto, P. Bertolotto and M. Muraro
Poster Session WG4-WG6 12.10-12.40
Lunch Break 12.40-13.50
Working Group 6: Reference Version and Implementation U. Schättler
Overview(126Kb, ppt) U. Schättler 13.50-14.00
Status of Program Implementations and Documentations (128Kb, ppt) U. Schättler 14.00-14.20
Analysis of the performance of the Two-Way Nesting Version of LM on Idealized Test Cases (327Kb, pps) M. Milelli 14.20-14.40
Evaluation of the LM Two-Way Nesting Option During the Recent Olympic Test Events in Greece (30.2Mb(!!), .ppt ) E.Avgoustoglou 14.40-15.00
Suggestions for the Web Site G. Doms 15.00-15.10
Plenum Session: Proposals and Discussion of Work Packages M.Capaldo
Further Develoment of the Operational NWP System at DWD: 2003-2006 D. Majewski 15.10-15.25
Further Develoment of the Operational NWP System at MeteoSwiss J. Quiby 15.25-15.30
Revision of work done and remaining tasks T.Paccagnella 15.30-15.50
Goals 2004 and future tasks M.Capaldo
Coffee Break 15.50-16.20
Proposals and Discussion for WG 1 C.Schraff 16.20-16.40
Proposals and Discussion for WG 2 J.Steppeler 16.40-17.00
Proposals and Discussion for WG 3 M.Arpagaus 17.00-17.20
Proposals and Discussion for WG 4 P.Eckert 17.20-17.40
Proposals and Discussion for WG 5 C.Cacciamani 17.40-18.00
Proposals and Discussion for WG 6 U.Schättler 18.00-18.20
Dinner at Restaurant Langena 19.30
Friday, 26 September 9.00 hrs-17.30hrs
Workshop Session: Definition of Work Packages
Organization D. Frühwald 09.00-09.05
Parallel Workshops of the Working Groups 09.05-10.45
Meeting of the Steering Committee 09.05-10.45
Coffee Break 10.45-11.00
Plenum Session: Presentation of the Workshop Results T. Paccagnella
WG 1 C. Schraff 11.00-11.10
WG 2 J. Steppeler 11.10-11.20
WG 3 M. Arpagaus 11.20-11.30
WG 4 P. Eckert 11.30-11.40
WG 5 C. Cacciamani 11.40-11.50
WG 6 U. Schättler 11.50-12.00
Plenum Discussion on Workshop Results 12.00-12.30
Lunch Break 12.30-14.00
Plenum Session: Perspectives and Projects M. Capaldo
LM User Seminar
Newsletter No.4 and Technical Reports
Next WP5 Coordinator
other items
Organizational and Technical Issues 14.00-14.30
Representation of EUMETNET/SRNWP J. Quiby 14.30-14.40
Status of the SRNWP-PEPS M. Denhard 14.40-15.00
Lead Centre for Nonhydrostatic Modelling:
Activities and Workshop 2003
J. Steppeler 15.00-15.10
Coffee Break 15.10-15.40
COST 717/716/722
ELDAS
EUROGRID
CLOUDMAP 2
ICON
SPP 1167 'Quantitative Precipitation Forecast'
National Projects at MeteoSwiss others
Status Reports of Projects 15.40-16.20
Perspectives 16.20-16.50
Any other Business M. Capaldo 16.50-17.00
Closing of the 5th COSMO General Meeting 17.00