Agenda of the joint Cosmo WorkGroup 4 and 5 meeting

Held 5-6 May in Geneva, MeteoSwiss (located in WMO building)

Wednesday 5 May morning
09h00 Coffee
09h20 Opening, Organisation
09h30 Recent Developments In Wg5
09h30 The LM verification system at DWD - state, results and future plans Ulrich Damrath, DWD
09h50 LAMI verification autumn-winter 2003-2004 Patrizio Emiliani, Alessandro Galliani, Ermanno Veccia, UGM
10h10 Recent developments in the LM verification process Elena Oberto, ARPA Piedmont
10h30 Recent developments in WG5 at ARPA-SMR Chiara Marsigli, ARPA-SMR
10h50 Recent developments in WG5 at MeteoSwiss Francis Schubiger, MCH
11h10 Coffee break
11h30 Recent Developments In Wg4
11h30 COSMO-LEPS verification operational suite and parallel suites Chiara Marsigli, ARPA-SMR
11h50 Use of LEPS products at DWD Bernhard Anger, DWD
12h10 General discussion concerning recent developments in WG4/WG5
12h30 Lunch
13h30 How To Present Verification Results To Forecasters And Feedbacks From Forecasters
13h30 On interpretation of some scores used in objective verification Ulrich Damrath, DWD
13h50 Evaluation of LM by DWD-forecasters and verification results from subjective studies Bernhard Anger, DWD
14h20 A web based worksheet to introduce feedback from forecasters Pierre Eckert, MeteoSwiss
14h40 Precipitation forecasts by forecasters in Zurich Francis Schubiger (presentation of Gaudenz Truog, MeteoSwiss)
15h00 Coffee break
15h20 Carlo Cacciamani, ARPA-SMR and Pierre Eckert, MeteoSwiss DISCUSSION
The goal is to have two concepts:
one on how to present the verification results to forecasters, another on how to get feed-back from forecasters to modellers
Thursday 6 May morning
09h00 Parallel Session Of
  1. WG4 discussion of a possible FDP project involving COSMO-LEPS
    The workshop WG4 participants will be joined by Marco Arpagaus, Andre Walser, Mathias Rotach for an open discussions. Contributions to this session can be announced to Pierre Eckert, even shortly before.
  2. WG5 Common verification package at ECMWF
    Alessandro Galliani, Patrizio Emiliani, Ermanno Veccia, UGM Common Verification Suite - Preliminary Results
Discussion and definition of needs and wishes for the Common verification package at ECMWF Contributions to this session can be announced to Francis Schubiger, even shortly before.
11h00 Final discussion (WG4 & WG5)
12h00 End of the workshop