27th COSMO General Meeting, 2025

Basel Switzerland, 1-5 September 2025

1. Agenda, plennary sessions

Monday, Sep. 1st
9:00 WGs, PPs, PTs
& STC meetings
10:40 coffee
11:00 WGs, PPs, PTs & STC meetings
12:30 lunch
14:00 WGs, PPs, PTs & STC meetings
15:30 coffee
16:00 WGs, PPs, PTs & STC meetings
18:00 ice breaker
Tuesday, Sep. 2nd
chair: Bettems 9:00 Liniger welcome  9:20 Gastaldo ItaliaMeteo introduction  9:35 Fischer AI/ML in the ACCORD strategy 
chair: Mazur 11:00 Rieger ICON news  11:20 Schraff WG data assimilation  11:45 Baldauf WG dynamics & numerics 
Wednesday, Sep. 3rd
chair: Milelli 9:00 MeteoSwiss organizational info  9:10 Bettems WG physiscs I 9:45 Muskatel WG physics II  10:20 Hoshyaripur ICON-ART news  10:40 Steger CLM news 
11:00 sandwich lunch
chair: Marsigli national presentations 11:45 Potthast Germany  12:00 Andreadis Greece  12:15 Givati Israel  12:30 Vocino Italy  12:45   Poland 13:00   Romania 13:30 Fuhrer Switzerland 
15:05excursion
18:00 conference dinner
Thursday, Sep. 4th
chair: Muskatel 9:00 Gofa, Mazur WG verification  & applications  10:05 Marsigli EPS & predictability 
10:40 coffee
chair: Gofa 11:00 Milelli WG support & infrastructure  11:35 Schättler SCA report  11:55 Vocino STC report 
12:30 lunch
14:00SMC session
15:30 coffee
16:00SMC session
Friday, Sep 5th
9:00SMC session
11:00, max 13:00SMC session

2. presentations, parallel sessions

Note:

presentations and minutes of STC and SMC meetings are not linked from general meetings pages. Both committees have more meetings than once a year (as GM), which are presented at their own pages: STC and SMC minutes.

data assimilation

Stephan

Survey on monitoring for KENDA 

Leuenberger et al

Data assimilation activities at MeteoSwiss 

Arpagaus

Update from MeteoSwiss concerning excessive ensemble spread for precipitation 

Merker et al

Adaptive Parameter Tuning in KENDA-CH1 and ICON-CH1-EPS 

Alina Yapparova et al

3D Radar assimilation in KENDA-CH1 and ICON-CH1-EPS 

Schraff

DA activities at DWD 

Cardinali

Status of KENDA-LETKF DA cycle at CNMCA 

Poli et al

Data assimilation activities at ItaliaMeteo-Arpae 

Lange et al

Recent Advances in surface analysis at DWD 

Physics

part1: upper air

Hoshyaripour

ICON-ART status 

Muskatel

Cloud-Aerosols Interactions in ICON 

Khain

Tuning 2.5km resolution 1-moment ICON precipitation over Israel 

Khain et al

Mixed-phase Spectral-Bin Microphysics (SBM) in ICON 

Avgoustouglou et al

On the Vertical Sensitivity of ICON Model Over Greece 

part2: soil

Wever et al

Updates and outlook on NIX in Modular TERRA 

Campanale et al

Italian progress report 

Campanale et al

CMCC contribution to PP CITTA’ 

Cinquegrana et al

TERRA_URB: Assessment of the new scheme in the Naples domain 

Bettems

COSMO – Quo Vadis? 

Raschendorfer

ConSAT report 

Schulz et al

A new urban parameterisation for the ICON atmospheric model 

Levi et al

CITTA status at IMS 

Mattavelli et al

First tests with Zonda for ECOCLIMAP-SG in ICON 

Milelli

PP CITTA’ and beyond 

Garbero

CITTA': Update on high-resolution experiments with ICON-LAM 

Jaczewski et al

CITTA' at IMGW: status and outlook 

Steger

Updated radiation-topography scheme in ICON and the new subgrid-scale variant 

Stellio

Removal of COSMO-specific functionalities in EXTPAR 

Support & infrastructure

Milelli

WG news 

Lapillonne

HPC and ICON consolidation status update 

Baumann

FieldExtra report 

Xu Xu et all

GLORI Digital Twin on HoreKa 

Minguzzi

NWP-TS: summary of Icon experiments at 31/08/2025 
Icon-LEPS: updates at 31/08/2025

Schättler

SCA Report for ICON-NWP 

Verification & applications

Gofa

WG status and plans 

Fundel

FFV2 Update 

Oberto et al

PP-APOCS 

Boucouvala

CARMENS progress at HNMS 

Mazur et al

PT EGALITE: work completed, final report 

Gabrian

PP CARMENS 

Gofa

Common Plots Activity Restructure 

Gofa

PP APOCS at HNMS 

Kaufmann

Impact of Gust Measurement Standards 

Pauling et al

Comparison of NWP and ML verification results 

Interewicz et al

APOCS status 

Gabrian

CP update 

Vela

Fuzzy verification on Common Areas 

Vela

ICON italian verification at CNMCA 

EPS & predictability

Arpagaus

Update from MeteoSwiss concerning excessive ensemble spread for precipitation 

Mazur et al

Influence of perturbation of surface temperature on temperature inversion at selected SYNOP stations in Poland 

Parsakhoo

Implementation of the SPP scheme in ICON and first results 

discussion

COSMO Priority Project PREVUE 

Khain

RUC at IMS: Best-member selection for nowcasting