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| 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 | |











