23rd COSMO General Meeting, parallel meetings 31 Aug. to 13 Sep. 2021 (teleconferences)

Last update: 25 September 2021

This page presents the parallel WGs/PPs sessions. For the main session, see the plenary agenda.
Tuesday, 31 August 2021
WG1-WG7 Chair: Ch. Marsigli, Ch. Schraff
All Opening 09:20-09:30
Daniel Leuenberger Aspects of KENDA-1 Inversion and Fog-Assimilation pdf 09:30-09:55
Christoph Schraff Parameter perturbations in the KENDA assimilation cycle and a new diagnostics pdf 10:15-10:45
coffee 11:05-11:15
Dmitrii Gayfulin, Mikhail Tsyrulnikov Development of the physical-space version of the SPG as part of its implementation in ICON   11:15-11:30
Pavel Khain Optimizing convection permitting ensemble via specific selection of the coarse ensemble driving members pdf 11:40-12.10
All Discussion / extra time slot to make up for possible delays 12.20-13:00
Monday, 6 September 2021
WG1: Radar session Chair: Christoph Schraff
All Opening, Setting up Meeting 09:20-09:30
Thomas Gastaldo, Virginia Poli Status of the assimilation of reflectivity and radial wind observations at Arpae pdf 09:30-09:55
Kobra Khosravian On radar data assimilation with the 2-moment microphysics pdf 10:10-10:40
coffee 11:00-11:10
Jana Mendrok Recent developments in the radar forward operator EMVORADO: Polarimetry etc. pdf 11:10-11:30
Yuefei Zeng Estimated observation error statistics of radar data and evaluation of EMVORADO settings pdf 11:40-12:05
Klaus Stephan Latent Heat Nudging with ICON-LAM pdf 12:20-12:40
lunch 13:00-13:45
All Discussion/extra time slot to make up for possible delays 13:45-15:00
WG6: C2I Chair: Daniel Rieger
Daniel Rieger Introduction pdf 13:00-13:05
Pavel Khain/Yoav Levi ICON at IMS pdf 13:05-13:15
Jean-Marie Bettems Fieldextra pdf 13:15-13:45
Francesca Marcucci ICON at CNMCA   13:45-13:55
Valeria Gabero ICON at ARPAP pdf 13:55-14:05
Dimitra Boucouvala ICON at HNMS pdf 14:05-14:15
break 14:15-14:30
Witold Interewicz ICON at IMGW pdf 14:30-14:45
Edoardo Bucchignani/Carmine De Lucia ICON at CIRA/CMCC pdf 14:45-15:00
Amalia Iriza ICON at NMA pdf 15:00-15:15
Anastasia Bundel Forecasters’ Feedback Overview pdf 15:15-15:25
André Walser ICON at MCH pdf 15:25-15:40
Further Contributions 15:40-16:00
Tuesday, 7 September 2021
WG1: KENDAscope Chair: Christoph Schraff
All Opening 09:20-09:30
Lilo Bach, Thomas Deppisch All-sky assimilation and bias correction of SEVIRI VIS reflectance pdf 09:30-10:00
Annika Schomburg All-sky assimilation of SEVIRI IR WV radiances pdf 10:20-10:50
coffee 11:10-11:20
Claire Merker, Jasmin Vural Assimilation of ground-based MWR (Microwave Radiometer) observations pdf 11:20-11:50
Bas Creeze Assimilation of Raman Lidar observations pdf 12:05-12:25
Francesca Marcucci, Valerio Cardinali Status of KENDA at CNMCA pdf 12:35-12:50
lunch 13:00-13:45
Christoph Schraff Assimilation and bias correction of 2-m temperature observations and some other aspects about KENDA pdf 13:45-14:15
All Discussion / extra time slot to make up for possible delays 14:15-15:30
WG6 Chair: Massimo Milelli
Massimo Milelli Introduction pdf 09:00-09:15
Uli Schättler COSMO SCA report pdf 09:15-10:00
Varun Sharma TERRA standalone pdf 10:00-10:20
Jonas Jucker EXTPAR pdf 10:20-10:40
Davide Cesari ICON Test Suite pdf 10:40-10:50
break 10:50-11:00
WG6: IMPACT Chair: Carlos Osuna/Xavier Lapillonne
Uli Schättler Status at DWD pdf 11:00-11:20
Remo Dietlicher Status of ICON GPU porting + discussion on GPU Optimization in the Physics pdf 11:20-11:50
Fabian Gessler ICON with Data Assimilation on GPU pdf 11:50-12:10
Carlos Osuna DSL for ICON pdf 12:10-12:30
all General discussion 12:30-13:00
Thursday, 9 September 2021
WG2 Chair: Michael Baldauf
Michael Baldauf Introduction   10:00-10:15
Michael Baldauf DG-Recent developments   10:15-10:45
All General discussion, WG2 recommendation doc. 10:45-12:00
WG3a Chair: Matthias Raschendorfer
Radiation, Microphysics and Aerosols: Modelling, introduction of data and verification
All Preparation, Welcome 08:15-08:30
Sophia Schäfer Current work on ecRad in ICON pdf 08:30-09:00
Pavel Khain Warm Phase Bin-Microphysics in ICON pdf 09:00-09:30
Axel Seifert An ML-based P3-like multimodal extension of the two-moment bulk microphysics in ICON   09:30-10:00
Harel Muskatel Using CAMS forecasted aerosols in ICON radiation scheme pdf 10:00-10:30
break 10:30-11:00
Trang Pham-van About the new aerosol climatology for ICON-Seamless   11:00-11:30
Daniel Rieger First results with the new 2D prognostic aerosol scheme for mineral dust in ICON   11:30-12:00
Axel Seifert More than just dust in the wind? Recent progress and challenges in tracking down aerosol effects in the PermaStrom project   12:00-12:30
Bernhard Vogel Chemistry, aerosol, clouds and radiation in ICON-ART-Recent applications pdf 12:30-13:00
lunch 13:00-14:30
All Final discussion: Possible new aspects, exchange of ideas, collection of problems to be solved 14:30-15:00
WG3a: CAIIR Chair: Harel Muskatel
Radiation, Microphysics and Aerosols
Harel Muskatel, Sophia Schäfer, All Coordination of work as, e.g., related to implementing revised parameterizations of optical properties into the ecRAD-version of ICON;
Organizing contributions from other projects at KIT, DWD and ECMWF.
15:00-16:30
WG3b Chair: Evgenii Churiulin
Phenology session
E. Churiulin PT VAINT pdf 08:45-09:10
All Discussion of results, future tasks 09:10-09:30
WG3b Chair: Euripides Avgoustoglou
Calibration session
E. Avgoustoglou PP CALMO pdf 09:30-09:50
I. Carmona CALMO-MAX pdf 09:50-10:15
All Discussion of results, outllook 10:15-10:45
break 10:45-11:15
WG3b Chair: Jean-Marie Bettems
outlook session: What is the role of WG3b in the future? Hydrology, urban, snow, calibration… TERRA, JSBACH, ICON-unified…
JM. Bettems Outlook pdf 11:15-11:30
All Discussion pdf 11:30-12:15
WG4: MILEPOST Chair: Andrzej Mazur, Anastasia Bundel
A.Mazur, A.Bundel Set-up and Welcome (minutes) 09:00-09:10
A.Mazur IMGW activities in PP MILEPOST pdf 09:10-09:30
Ph. Bykov Correction COSMO-Ru temperature field in atmospheric boundary layer using the convolutional neural network pdf 09:30-09:50
A. Kolker Comparison of efficiency of decision trees and neural networks for postprocessing of thunderstorms pdf 09:50-10:10
All Discussion 10:10-10:30
coffee 10:30-10:50
A. Bundel WG4 activity plan. Discussion of WG4 Guidelines. Potential new Priority tasks pdf 10:50-11:20
Friday 10 September 2021
WG3a: CAIR, ART Chair: Matthias Raschendorfer
Sub-grid scale processes in ICON: Impact of convection and turbulence to cloud formation
All Preparation, Welcome 08:45-09:00
Maike Ahlgrimm Effect of shallow convection parametrization on cloud resolving precipitation forecasts over the Mediterranean   09:00-09:30
Matthias Raschendorfer Possible approach towards a consistent representation of turbulent and convective contributions to the formation of clouds   09:30-10:00
All Collection of further ideas; discussion about practicable short term solutions and a preferential longer term strategy 10:00-10:30
break 10:30-11:00
WG3a Chair: Martin Köhler
Cloud diagnostics in ICON: Taskforce for improving the current cloud-cover scheme
Martin Köhler; Current state, possible modifications, organization of work pdf 11:00-12:00
lunch 12:00-13:30
WG3a Chair: Matthias Raschendorfer
Sub-grid scale processes in ICON: Treatment of surface heterogeneity and its impact to turbulence, convection and Surface-to-Atmosphere Transfer (SAT)
Matthias Raschendorfer ConSAT: The thermal effect of SSO or surface roughness as an application of STIC and the related impact of inter-tile variability.   13:30-14:00
All Discussion about next steps of ConSAT and its relation to requirements of ICON-Seamless:
Finalizing the introduction of distributed development of Turbdiff, Turbtran and Terra into the ICON-dev branch
(implicit surface processes without T_S-oscillations, canopy layer, …);
Towards a better surface coupling of sub-grid convection (thermal and mechanical initiation by SSO);
Advantage of a vertically resolved land-use roughness-layer.
14:00-15:00
WG5: CARMA Chair: Flora Gofa
F. Gofa Set-up and Welcome 09:20-9:30
A. Iriza-Burca PP-CARMA completion, Open Issues pdf 9:30-11:00
F. Fundel Feedback File verification updates pdf
A. Vocino Status of MEC-RFDBK implementation at CNMCA pdf
F. Gofa CP activity continuation through SPRT pdf
break 11:00-11:15
F. Fundel Effects on the verification when MEC used in global/local mode pdf 11:15-13:00
C. Gebhardt Precipitation forecasts of the ICON model suite for a severe flash flood event in Western Germany on 14/15th July 2021 pdf
M.S. Tesini Forecasted Wind Warnings Evaluation (Forecaster vs. Model Output) pdf
N. Vela FSS for COSMO CP pdf
D. Boucouvala Presentation of seasonal CP reports. Discussion  
F. Gofa AOB pdf
Monday, 13 September 2021
WG3b: AEVUS2, CITTA Chair: Jan-Peter Schulz, Minutes: Paola Mercogliano
J.M. Bettems Set-up and welcome 08:45-09:00
J.-P. Schulz, P. Mercogliano Final Update on PT_ÆVUS 2 pdf 09:00-09:20
U. Schättler Short overview on the status and planning of the ongoing developments/versions of TERRA_URB: TERRA_URB in COSMO v6.0 pdf 09:20-09:40
C. Apreda, A. Reder, J.-P. Schulz, P. Mercogliano Update on urban canopy parameters for EXTPAR pdf 09:40-10:00
M. Varentsov Activities and updates Roshydromet pdf 10:00-10:20
V. Garbero, F. Bassani, M. Milelli Problems encountered with TERRA_URB at ArpaP-PoliTO pdf 10:20-10:35
F. Bassani, V. Garbero, M. Milelli Sensitivity tests with TERRA_URB pdf 10:35-10:45
E. Bucchignani, F. Repola, P. Mercogliano Activities and updates CIRA-CMCC pdf 10:45-11:05
break 11:05-11:35
All Open discussion 11:35-12:30
WG4: AWARE Chair: F. Gofa and A. Bundel
F. Gofa, A. Bundel Set-up and Welcome (minutes) 13:20-13:30
F. Gofa, A. Bundel Progress of PP-AWARE-Short Extension pdf 13:30-15:00
A.Bundel (for A.Muravyev) Overview of appropriate verification measures for HIW-Extreme Value Theory (EVT) approach (Task 2.3) pdf
A. Mazur, J. Linkowska Verification of forecasts of intense convective phenomena (Task 3.1)  
A.Bundel, E. Olkhovaya, E. Astakhova, and D.Alferov MET application for gridded COSMO-Ru/ICON forecasts (Task 3.3) pdf
F. Gofa, D. Boucouvala Verification applications to HIW-LPI evaluation and correlation with thermodynamical indices (Task 3.5) pdf
C. Marsigli (for M. Salmi) Verification of the LPI of COSMO-D2-EPS against lightning pdf
break 15:00-15:15
D. Cattani Calibration of the Lightning Potential Index (LPI) in COSMO-1E and COSMO-2E (Task 3.2)   15:15-16:45
P. Gregor Verification of precipitation objects from SINFONYRUC simulations (ICON-D2-EPS Rapid Update Cycle) during summer 2021 (Task 3.6) pdf
D. Zakharchenko and D.Blinov Convective indices for predicting tornado risk with COSMO-Ru (Task 4.1) pdf
Y. Khlestova, E. Tatarinovich, M. Shatunova, G. Rivin Overview of fog forecasting methods and postprocessing model data for fog forecast (Task 4.1) pdf
All AWARE future-PT on EPS Spatial Verification pdf
WG7: PROPHECY Chair: Chiara Marsigli
All Opening 09:00-09:10
Evripidis Augoustoglou Status of the experiments on parameter perturbations towards ICON-LEPS pdf 09:10-09:40
Chiara Marsigli Ensemble developments at Arpae-SIMC pdf 9:50-10:05
André Walser Status report about the operational COSMO-1E & COSMO2E suites pdf 10:10-10:30
coffee 10:40-11:00
Andrzej Mazur, Grzegorz Duniec Latest activities in the PP PROPHECY pdf 11:00-11:20
Christoph Gebhardt, Chiara Marsigli, Martin Sprengel ICON-D2-EPS status and developments, including stochastic physics pdf 11:30-11:50
All Discussion 12:00-12:30