WG 6 and Support Activities Plans for the next Year

th General COSMO Meeting --- Athens, Greece 2 Subtasks of SA 1.Source Code Administration 2.Web Page Administration  Contents Management  Technical Administration 3.Documentations, Newsletter, Technical Report  Documentation  COSMO Newsletter  Technical Reports

th General COSMO Meeting --- Athens, Greece 3 Source Code Administration Updates ready to be put into the model –Bug fixes for reproducibility of RK core and assimilation –Gust parameterization –Latent Heat Nudging: Adaptation to new microphysics INT2LM 1.7 and COSMO-Model 4.1 during autumn Other versions planned for spring and summer 2008: –Call for Source Code Submission –Implementing and Testing –Release and Distribution –There will be (several) development versions, that will not be distributed. This is just, that there are not too many changes for one version

th General COSMO Meeting --- Athens, Greece 4 Source Code Administration „Source Code Submission“ –From different institutes / partners –From the Working Groups / Priority Projects  Gust parameterization  Which additional convection scheme(s) Additional issues for next year(s) –Chemistry: prepare COSMO-Model to easily allow an online coupling of Tracers / Chemistry –GRIB 2 (?)

th General COSMO Meeting --- Athens, Greece 5 Web Page Administration Already got some input from STC Meeting –STC wants to see a detailed description of the subtasks –FTEs are only counted if visible work has been done –Want to see a perfect web site next year

th General COSMO Meeting --- Athens, Greece 6 Web Page Administration Contents: We put up a detailed plan for: –Documentation of operational setups –The Model System –Collaboration / Publication List –Description of the Priority Projects –Description of the Working Groups –Update of Minutes –Update of Verifications –FAQ (problems with model, compilation, …)

th General COSMO Meeting --- Athens, Greece 7 Web Page Administration Contents (II): –List of contributing scientists: COSMO-ΚΟΣΜΟΣ We think it a good idea to have a list of all people involved in the COSMO work on the web with: Picture Short CV (background, main interests, …) Contributing to Working Group(s) / Priority Project(s)

th General COSMO Meeting --- Athens, Greece 8 Documentation User Guide for the COSMO-Model User Guide for the INT2LM Update for Dynamics (Runge-Kutta) Update for Physics (Microphysics)

th General COSMO Meeting --- Athens, Greece 9 COSMO Newsletter COSMO Newsletter 7 –At least: Put material as collection of PDFs on the WEB –Material must not be lost COSMO Newsletter 8: –Same procedure as every year: Deadline for sending contributions is: 30. November 2007 –Using the Latex-template from the Web –A mail with all information will be send out soon

th General COSMO Meeting --- Athens, Greece 10 THE END No additional work packages for Working Group 6