ELDAS 2nd progress meeting INM Madrid, 10 & 11 dec 2003

ELDAS 2nd progress meeting Goal of meeting Information on progress Finetuning of 2004 workplan –Revised wp’s BALTEX & GLDAS wp’s Rhine wp UK flooding wp Demonstration for crop prediction (not formal ELDAS) Exchange of information –New fellows –Travel plans –Contributions to progress report, TIP, URD

ELDAS 2nd progress meeting Program 10 dec 9:00 Coffee and welcome 9:30 Introduction and agenda Bart Status of forcings 9:45 PrecipitationPaul/Franz 10:30 Radiation and heating ratesBart 11:15 Coffee break 11:30 Database for 2003Bart MARS storage issuesPedro 12:30 Remaining Database issues to be resolved all 13:00 Lunch break Data assimilation progress and overview of past and future experiments 14:00 The scm-experiments at ECMWFPedro/Janneke 15:00 The CNRM assimilation systemGianpaolo 16:00 Break 16:30 Status of the DWD data assimilationWerner/Martin 17:30 Discussionall 18:00 Day closure

ELDAS 2nd progress meeting Program 11 dec Further progress and workplans 9:00 NWP experiments Ernesto 10:00Offline simulations over Europe: workplan and goals (GLDAS & BALTEX wp's) Bart 10:30Progress in the Baltex WP Phil 11:00Break 11:30Results and future experiments in the Rhone-workpackage Jean-Christophe 12:00Progress on the pointwise validation Cor 12:45lunch break 13:45Scm-experiments with the microwave radiation model and SSM/I evaluationHenning 14:30The flooding experiments in the UK Eleanor 15:00The Rhine WPBart 15:10Discussion 16:00break Closing session 16:30 Comments by Advisory board members 17:15 Summary of conclusions Bart 17:30(Administrative) input requestBart 18:00 Closure

ELDAS 2nd progress meeting Toulouse interim meeting Forcings: –Precip daily files: done 3hrly: in progress –Radiation: done –Heating rates: 1 st release: done Additional info: in progress –Atm forcings: in progress MARS storage: not yet

ELDAS 2nd progress meeting Toulouse interim meeting Soil moisture production –CNRM: Done by now (?) No direct use of precipitation & radiation –DWD: Started soon (?) Direct use of precip & radiat planned –ECMWF Trial column simulation: in progress First release: mid 2004 Slower than expected (!) –Request for contract extension not approved

ELDAS 2nd progress meeting 2004 activities Most of validation & demonstration work ! EGU special session on land data assimilation –Nice, April Closing workshop & meeting –2.5 days sessions, 1.5 days discussion, 1 day final ELDAS meeting –ECMWF, 8-12 nov 2004 Forcings (incl landsaf Tskin) Assimilation methods Applications (incl seasonal forecasting) Validation (including N/GLDAS) Outlook: biomass (GEOLAND) and new landuse maps (ECOCLIMAP) CAHMDA workshop Princeton, 1-5 nov

ELDAS 2nd progress meeting

Radiation and heating rates ELDORADO –Database delivered to ECMWF & Alterra –Paper (Meetschen et al) submitted –KNMI Preprint

ELDAS 2nd progress meeting Heating rates workplan Gisela’s scm-study MUREX: –METEOSAT info consistent with local Tskin measurements, but too low sampling frequency

ELDAS 2nd progress meeting Heating rates workplan Gisela’s scm-study MUREX: –METEOSAT info consistent with local Tskin measurements, but too low sampling frequency 2000 database prepared –Additional info on obs.error stil to be added Case study with 2003 in progress –3 months (May-July) –METEOSAT and MSG –Simple data assimilation in RACMO –If successful & feasible: ECMWF will use 2000 database

ELDAS 2nd progress meeting Database for 2003 Originally intended for MSG demonstration No full data assimilation experiments foreseen within ELDAS However: forcings database will enable future heating rate pilot exps prior to operational implementation: presence in MARS very helpful! Anticipated period: 1 May-1 Aug 2003 –Precip? –ELDORADO: ok –Heating rates: ok

ELDAS 2nd progress meeting Selected subregions and domain

ELDAS 2nd progress meeting Heating rates of low vegetation and data coverage

ELDAS 2nd progress meeting Results from RACMO control run

ELDAS 2nd progress meeting

New GLDAS/BALTEX workplans GLDAS-wp (4300): –Original: Evaluate ELDAS over US basins –New: over 2000 Europe: GLDAS: offline VIC-simulation (well-calibrated hydrologically oriented surface scheme) ELDAS1: offline TESSEL-simulation ELDAS2: assimilated run Optional: use GLDAS precip dataset (currently not yet available for 2000) –ELDAS1 – GLDAS: 2 surface schemes driven as in GLDAS (no data assimilation) –ELDAS2 – ELDAS1: added value of data assimilation

ELDAS 2nd progress meeting New GLDAS/BALTEX workplans Baltex wp (5400) –Original: use 18-year dataset to compare to ELDAS climatology (unfeasible) –New: as in previous wp: use both offline & full simulations to compare to discharge dataset, assessing Intermodel differences Added value of data assimilation Added value of high resolution precip forcing

ELDAS 2nd progress meeting New GLDAS/BALTEX workplans Required: –Offline forcing over Europe (ALMA netCDF standard) From MARS-archive To be compiled by SMHI –Offline simulation of VIC To be carried out by SMHI in context of workvisit UW –Offline simulation of TESSEL To be carried out by KNMI –Analyses: as planned GLDAS-wp: KNMI BALTEX-wp: SMHI

ELDAS 2nd progress meeting

New Rhine workplan Originally: demonstrate ELDAS for Rhine flooding New: demonstrate ELDAS for discharge & soil water storage annual cycle

ELDAS 2nd progress meeting Info on soil hydrological memory from reanalysis & discharge P – E = R + dS/dt –P – E: from ERA40 convergence –R: from river discharge –dS/dt: budget closure Hirschi et al, ETH Zurich, 2003

ELDAS 2nd progress meeting Time series of soil water Will ELDAS observations be closer to large scale estimate?

ELDAS 2nd progress meeting

Additional requests Cost statements & progress reports Travels –AGU jan 2004 (Cor Jacobs) –? Technical Implementation Plan –See (eldas_tip/tipeldas) User Requirements Document –See eldas-website All publications & presentations