19th COSMO General Meeting, 11-14 September 2017, Jerusalem (Israel)

Last update: 20 September 2017

This page has the links to the presentations of the parallel WGs/PPs sessions. For the rest, see the plenary agenda.

Parallel sessions agenda
Monday 11 September 2017
Parallel Session: WG1, WG7, KENDA-O, SPRED Chair: Chiara Marsigli, Christoph Schraff
Chiara Marsigli, Christoph Schraff Opening (after installation of remote attendance, etc.) 09:30-09:40
Dmitry Gayfulin, Elena Astakhova Recent progress with the Stochastic Pattern Generator   09:40-10:00
Christoph Schraff KENDA operationalization and status ppt 10:10-10:40
Daniel Leuenberger Comparison of Nudging and KENDA: Experience at MeteoSwiss   10:40-11:00
Chiara Marsigli Status of the work on KENDA at Arpae SIMC pdf 11:00-11:20
Francesca Marcucci Status of migration to KENDA code at CNMCA and recent results on soil moisture assimilation   11:20-11:40
Axel Seifert Assimilation of radar reflectivities pdf 11:40-12:10
All Discussion 12:10-12:30
Parallel Session: WG1, KENDA-O Chair: Christoph Schraff
Uli Blahak Radar radial winds   14:00-14:25
Daniel Leuenberger Status of KENDA at MeteoSwiss   14:30-14:50
All Discussion 15:00-17:00
Parallel Session: CELO, EX-CELO, CDIC Chair: Michael Baldauf
Michael Baldauf Opening 09:00-09:15
Bogdan Rosa Results of idealised and semi realistic simulations performed with new compressible dynamical core of COSMO-EULAG ppt 09:15-09:45
Zbigniew Piotrowski The new PP EX-CELO-3D diffusion in EULAG   09:45-10:00
All Discussion 10:00-10:45
Guy de Morsier Experience with ICON and COSMO for a strong advection case   11:15-11:45
Damian Wojcik Results from the WK82 experiment   11:45-12:00
All Discussion: Next steps: how to proceed with the semi-realistic tests 11:45-12:15
Parallel Session: WG2 Chair: Michael Baldauf
Guy de Morsier Why do we need a good Targeted Cold Pool Diffusion (TCPD)?   14:00-14:30
Michael Baldauf Some investigations for the new COSMO-D2 setup   14:30-15:00
All Discussion:
  • Science Plan issues
  • validation of single precision version
14:30-15:00
Parallel Session: WG3a, T2(RC)2, ConSat4 Chair: Matthias Raschendorfer
Matthias Raschendorfer Welcome 09:00-09:05
Pavel Khain The new COSMO parameterization of sub-grid-scale cloud microphysics using LES simulations pdf 09:05-09:35
Martin Köhler Optical properties of atmospheric snow in ICON   09:35-10:05
Pavel Khain Towards a single precision version of the radiation scheme   10:05-10:35
Harel Muskatel First results of COSMO-IL test version using CAMS aerosols   11:00-11:30
Natalia Chubarova / Marina Shatunova Validation of radiation characteristics simulated by COSMO against accurate experimental measurements for cloudy conditions   11:30-12:00
Harel Muskatel, All Next phase of T2(RC)2: introduction and discussion   12:00-12:30
Jochen Förstner Reduction of photovoltaic energy production through mineral dust -- development and application of ICON-ART in PerduS a joint project of DWD, KIT and Meteocontrol GmbH   14:00-14:30
Ekaterina Machulskaya / Tobias Göcke Clear Air Turbulence forecast at DWD: Current status and verification issues   14:30-15:00
Ines Cerenzia / Ekaterina Machulskaya / Dario Giaiotti The Tile approach in SBL: Idealized simulations and 3D model runs using COSMO   15:00-15:30
Matthias Raschendorfer Numerical effects of a reformulated SAT with an implicit treatment of surface-temperature in the heat budget for a snow-free skin layer including a possible snow cover   15:30-16:00
Matthias Raschendorfer, All Ongoing work on ConSAT-issues and other tasks: current status and discussion of further plans; organization of possible cooperation   16:30-17:00
Parallel Session: CALMO-MAX Chair: Antigoni Voudouri
Antigoni Voudouri Final review of CALMO project pdf 09:00-09:30
Euripides Avgoustoglou On the Domain Sensitivity of COSMO Model over the Mediterranean Area pdf 09:30-10:00
Itsik Carmona On the Meta-Model pdf 10:00-10:30
All Open discussion: review of CALMO-MAX plan, resources, future workshop, list of scientific questions 11:00-12:30
Parallel Session: WG3b Chair: Jean-Marie Bettems
Jean-Marie Bettems WG3b highlights, TERRA development, EXTPAR (1st), phenology (2nd) pdf, pdf 14:15-15:00
Ziv (1st), Bessenbacher (2nd), Rozinkina &Nikitin (3rd) PT TERRA Nova and MSc about TERRA/LM comparison : Validating recent TERRA development pdf, pdf, pdf 15:00-16:00
Sascha Bellaire The PT SAINT proposal : About a consolidated multi-layer snow model pdf 16:30-17:30
Parallel Session: WG5 Chair: Flora Gofa
Flora Gofa Welcome (minutes) 09:00-9:15
Alexander Kirsanov Presentation of seasonal CP reports Conditional Verification results and Round table discussion on results (overview to be presented to plenary)   9:15-10:30
M. Buchhold (DWD) Verification of ICON/ICON-EU pdf 11:00-11:15
Y. Ziv (IMS) Verifications at IMS: Experience with TERRA pdf 11:15-11:30
M. S. Tesini (ARPAE) (recorded video) Comparison of wind verification for different COSMO models using the Performance Rose diagram pdf 11:30-11:45
Anastasia Bundel (RHM) Spatial methods for assessing radar data assimilation performance at RHM: a framework pdf 11:45-12:00
Elena Oberto (ARPA-PT) (presented by F.Gofa) Long-term trends of COSMO models performance over Italian catchment areas   12:00-12:15
F. Gofa (HNMS) Observations analysis driven by climatological data   12:15-12:30
Parallel Session: WG5, VERSUS2, INSPECT Chair: Flora Gofa
F. Fundel (DWD) (presented by M.Buchhold) Advances with Rfdbk pdf 14:00-14:20
N. Vela/E. Oberto (ARPA-PT) (recorded video) VAST improvements pdf 14:20-14:40
All Discussion on common verification software 14:40-15:00
Flora Gofa, All IVMW 2017-Discussion on new PP ideas 15:00-15:15
A. Bundel, F. Gofa PP INSPECT status-MesoVICT news   15:15-15:30
J. Linkowska (IMGW-PIB) Overview of PP INSPECT results at IMGW-PIB pdf 15:30-15:45
Flora Gofa Neighborhood vs Filtering methods pdf 15:45-16:00
Parallel Session: WG5, WG6, NWP Test Suite Chair: Massimo Milelli
All Discussion (Montani, Gofa, Barbu, Maco, Mironov, Schättler, Milelli): Changes on NWP Test Suite experiments setup 16:30-17:30
Parallel Session: WG6 Chair: Massimo Milelli
Massimo Milelli Introduction ppt 09:00-09:10
Ulrich Blahak SCA report: INT2LM pptx 09:10-09:40
Ulrich Schättler SCA report: COSMO, grib2 pptx, pptx 09:40-10:30
Massimo Milelli Web page update   11:00-11:20
Andrea Montani COSMO LEPS update pdf 11:20-11:40
Cosmin Barbu, Bogdan Maco User Support activities/FAQ page pdf 11:40-12:00
Davide Cesari New COSMO setup in Italy pdf 12:00-12:30
Zbigniew Piotrowski New PP about COSMO-EULAG on GPU pdf 14:00-14:30
Parallel Session: Developers Workshop Chair: U. Schättler
All Discussion 14:30-16:00
Parallel Session: WG6, WG5, NWP Test Suite Chair: Massimo Milelli
All Discussion (Montani, Gofa, Barbu, Maco, Mironov, Schättler, Milelli) 16:30-17:30
Parallel Session: WG7, SPRED Chair: Chiara Marsigli
Andrea Montani COSMO-LEPS pdf 14:00-14:20
Marco Arpagaus COSMO-E update pdf 14:20-14:40
Andrej Mazur SPRED activities at IMWM-NRI pdf 14:40-15:00
Christoph Gebhardt COSMO-DE-EPS pdf 15:00-15:20
Andrea Montani PT CIAO overview pdf 15:20-15:40
Marco Alemanno, Massimo Milelli Work for PT CIAO pdf 15:40-16:00
Chiara Marsigli COSMO-IT-EPS pdf 16:30-16:50
All Discussion about the new PP SPRED2 16:50-17:30
Tuesday 12 September 2017
Parallel Session: WG2, POMPA Chair: Xavier Lapillonne
Xavier Lapillonne, Michael Baldauf Evaluation of the Dycore Parallel Phase (EDP2) PT : final report pptx 14:00-14:20
Pascal Spörri, Xavier Lapillonne Status of the COSMO-POMPA PP pdf 14:20-14:40
Ulrich Schättler Experience with maintaining the GPU enable version of COSMO pptx 14:40-15:00
Marco Alemanno Running the GPU version of COSMO at CNMCA pdf 15:00-15:20
Xavier Lapillonne The ENIAC project : Enabling the ICON model on heterogeneous architectures pptx 15:20-15:40
Oliver Fuhrer The COSMO PASCHA project : task parallelism in COSMO pptx 15:40 –16:00
Zbigniew Piotrowski Status of the COSMO-EULAG Gridtools port pdf 16:30-16:50
All General discussion, future HPC project in the COSMO consortium pptx 16:50-17:30
Parallel Session: WG3b, ConSAT4 Chair: Jean Marie Bettems
Massimo Milelli PT AEVUS-About the new urban module: About the new urban module pdf, pdf 14:00-14:30
Jan-Peter Schulz An improved representation of the land surface temperature including the effects of vegetation in the ICON model ppt 14:30-14:50
Matthias Raschendorfer PT ConSAT4 with special focus on TERRA related aspects as implemented in a test-version of ICON: New setup of a coupled heat budget for snow-free and snow- covered surfaces; removing of various artificial limitations; strategy of integrating further generalizations for a rough and vegetated surface (last year development in COSMO) into the recent development in ICON.   14:50-15:20
All Open discussion: steps for a consistent and stable thermal treatment of rough and partly vegetated surface, in particular considering new snow and urban parameterizations. 15:20-16:10
Parallel Session: CALMO-MAX Chair: Antigoni Voudouri
All Configuration of the COSMO-1 calibration 12:30-12:50
All Ways to optimise the calibration procedure 12:50-13:10
Parallel Session: CALMO-MAX with WG3a & WG5 experts Chair: Antigoni Voudouri
Antigoni Voudouri Short presentation of CALMO-MAX roadmap   16:30-16:40
All Open discussion with model developers: unconfined model parameters 16:40-17:20
All Open discussion with verification specialists: model performance score, validation of CALMO optimum 17:20-18:00
Parallel Session: WG7, INSPECT Chair: Anastasia Bundel
A. Bundel, F. Gofa Intro 14:00-14:15
A. Montani, M.S. Tesini,C.Marsigli (ARPAE) Sensitivity of COSMO-LEPS forecast skill to the verification network for MesoVICT cases pdf 14:15-14:30
Dimitra Boucouvala, (HNMS) SAL applications on EPS datasets pdf 14:30-14:45
Anastasia Bundel (RHM) CRA application for the high-resolution models in the complex terrains pdf 14:45-15:00
M.S.Tesini, E.Oberto (ARPAE) DIST for precipitation-Long term trends pdf 15:00-15:15
All Discussion on Task5d: Guidelines for applying spatial methods on convection permitting ensemble systems 15:15-15:30
All PP INSPECT final report-extension Discussion on Task 5:
  • Analysis of the usefulness of various spatial methods
  • Guidelines for using spatial methods, leading to an updated strategy for decision-making.
15:30-17:00
Parallel Session: WG7, SPRED Chiara Marsigli
Chiara Marsigli The Project SRNWP-EPS II of EUMETNET pdf 15:30-15:45
Francesca Marcucci Post-processing products for fog and thunderstorms pdf 15:45-16:00
Andrea Montani Fog forecasting with COSMO model pdf 16:30-16:45
All Discussion about the new PP SPRED2 16:45-18:00