1 Short Report of 28 th Meeting of the COSMO Steering Committee (STC) Rome, 5 September 2011 Detlev Majewski, Head of STC Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach, Germany

2 COSMO STC Meeting, 5 September 2011 Participants: Detlev Majewski (Germany; Head of STC) Panagiotis Skrimizeas (Greece) Massimo Ferri (Italy; Minutes) Michal Ziemianski (Poland) Gheorghe Stancalie(Romania) Dmitry Kiktev(Russia) Philippe Steiner (Switzerland) Marco Arpagaus(Switzerland, SPM)

3 COSMO license issues, Part I Status of contracts Current operational licensees ( € annual fee each)  United Arab Emirates (NCMS) since July 2010  Brazil (INMET) since January 2011  Oman (DGMAN) since January 2011  Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya since August  The license income cannot be transferred from one year to the next!  Except Catalunya, all countries have been HRM users before. All countries use GME (30 km L60) LBC data.

4 COSMO license issues, Part II Income and activity proposals in 2011, procedures Income from license fees in 2011: € Number of Activity Proposals received so far:25 Money spent (and accepted) until Sep. 2011: € € is planned for further development of fieldextra For 2012, please send your Activity Proposals as early as possible to the Head of STC and SPM!

5 COSMO license issues, Part III Strategy for enhancing number of licensees, COSMO model contract for developing countries STC supports the idea to increase the number of licensees! Former HRM community (e.g. Botswana, Brazil (DHN), Malaysia) Annual Capacity Building Workshop in July advertised via WMO Advertisement of COSMO license on COSMO Webpage COSMO contract for developing countries Contract which will be issued starting January 2013, before, the scientific contract will be used to allow HRM users to migrate to the COSMO model.

6 Current operational HRM users

7 Severe Weather Forecast Demonstration Project for East Africa Goals Enhancement of technical capacity in operational weather forecasting and advancement in service delivery to general public and key application areas such as agriculture and fisheries, in countries of the region, including Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. 1 st Workshop: NAIROBI, KENYA, 04 – 08 OCTOBER Reports/documents/Final_report_SWFDP-Eastern_Africa-Nairobi_workshop.pdf 2 nd Workshop: NAIROBI, KENYA, 21 – 24 JUNE Meeting-Report.pdf

8 U. Blahak in Nairobi at the SWFDP planning workshops 04 – 08 OCTOBER – 24 JUNE 2011

9 STC approves the PP CORSO and PT Mire STC approves a new task within PT Support Activities: Support of COSMO licensees

10 Elections: Head of STC, SPM, WG5 Coordinator Head of STC: Philippe Steiner SPM:Michal Ziemianski WG5 Coordinator:Flora Gofa CONGRATULATIONS! Work will start on 1 Jan. 2012!

11 STC approves the COSMO Standards for Source Code Development which strengthen role of SMC, and thanks the author(s). STC elects the SCAs: U. Schättler for COSMO, J. M. Bettems for fieldextra, A. Chelloni for Versus

12 STC assigns 0.50 FTE for each WGC. STC assigns 0.75 FTE for the SPM. STC assigns 0.10 FTE for source code management tasks in fieldextra and Versus.

13 GM 2012 in Switzerland 10 – 14 September 2012 Lugano Palazzo di Congressi

14 Job opportunities at DWD 10 fixed-term (3 years) positions in R&D starting on 1 Jan (6 in data assimilation: ask C. Schraff, 2 in physical aspects: ask B. Ritter 2 in ensemble forecasting: ask M. Buchhold) 10 fixed-term (4 years) positions in R&D starting on April to June 2012 in a renewable energy project (awaiting final aprovement): ask D. Majewski

15 Job opportunity at the University of Cottbus ask A. Will!

16 Thank you for your attention!