Status of the COSMO web Cosmin Barbu, Rodica Dumitrache, Bogdan Maco National Meteorological Administration of Romania

COSMO General Meeting, Rome, 5-9 September 2010 Outline: COSMO web team & activity Common overview of the COSMO web site Work done Work planned for Open discussions

COSMO General Meeting, Rome, 5-9 September 2010 COSMO web team & work activity Ulrich Schaettler (DWD) – WG6 coordinator Theodore Andreadis (HNMS) Cosmin Barbu, Bogdan Maco (NMA) others: PP leaders, WG coordinators, COSMO scientists

COSMO General Meeting, Rome, 5-9 September 2010 Common overview  General information about COSMO (members, structure, meetings, events, reports/plans, cooperations )  General and specific information about COSMO model (documentation, technical reports, newsletters )  Information about the COSMO tasks : status & descriptions of the (old & current) COSMO priority projects working group activities  Information about the current model implementation of each COSMO member  User support & forum  Information about the SRNWP data exchange programme

COSMO General Meeting, Rome, 5-9 September 2010 Work done ( ) (regular activity) Pages which has been updated:  PP & WG pages (task details, working plans, meetings, news) (old PP&WG + new: POMPA PP, WG7-”Predictability and Ensemble Methods” )  The minutes of STC & SMC meetings  Journal publications  The minutes and presentations of the workshops  Latest version of Fieldextra – see Cosmo utilities software section  The 11th COSMO newsletter  The operational pages for some COSMO members: (only) NMA, (hope soon) DWD  Science plan for by M. Arpagaus Note: Information about the latest COSMO web updates can be found on a special page created by Theodore.

COSMO General Meeting, Rome, 5-9 September 2010 Work to be done ( ) Pages which have to be updated:  The PP & WG pages + add new information for the new PPs that will come  The minutes of STC & SMC meetings (continuous work)  The operational pages for each COSMO member (information about basic model set-up, computational resources, operational suite, DA cycle, detailed configuration – INPUT files) + some suggestive photos  The verification report pages (most of them stopped at 2007)  The COSMO newsletter no. 12  The research activities and the COSMO utilities software web pages  The presentations of User seminar, CLM training & workshops planned for 2012  Creating a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page for COSMO model installation issues (subtask of “Support of COSMO licensees”)

COSMO General Meeting, Rome, 5-9 September 2010 Does the COSMO website need to be redesigned?? If “YES” what could be the starting point for that??  Do we need a more dynamical website? What will be the structure of the site?  Identify the most accessed information from the actual website and (maybe) redefine the target users  The website is based on html, js, css. Do we need other web technologies? (php, sql,asp…)  What could be the costs? (FTE’s) If “NOT” what should be improved??  Identify some web pages that we don’t need anymore  Create new menus/submenus for some scientific purposes  Re-design only the home webpage, but keep the same structure  Increase the communication within the consortium => web pages updated in time

COSMO General Meeting, Rome, 5-9 September 2010 Thank you for your attention!