1. Report from the Scientific Project Manager
8th COSMO GENERAL MEETING
18 – 21 September 2007
Glyfada, Greece
Tiziana Paccagnella
ARPA-SIM
Tiziana Paccagnella
COSMO GENERAl MEETING 2007
Glyfada, Greece September

2. Report from the Scientific Project Manager
Scientific activities will be presented by WP coordinators and by our colleagues.
Tiziana Paccagnella
COSMO GENERAl MEETING 2007
Glyfada, Greece September

3. Glyfada, Greece 18-21 September
Coordination
18th Meeting of the COSMO STC
Zürich, December 14-15, 2006
14th Meeting of the COSMO SAC
Zurich, MeteoSwiss 9-11 May 2007
15th Meeting of the COSMO SAC
Offenbach, DWD 4-5 Sept 2007
19th Meeting of the COSMO STC
Glyfadat, General Meeting 2007
&
WGs and Projects meetings
Reporting
Tiziana Paccagnella
COSMO GENERAl MEETING 2007
Glyfada, Greece September

4. SACs 14th Meeting of the COSMO SAC 15th Meeting of the COSMO SAC
Zurich, MeteoSwiss 9-11 May 2007
Participants:
Christoph Schraff
Michael Baldauf
Marco Arpagaus
Pierre Eckert
Adriano Raspanti
Ulrich Schaettler
Tiziana Paccagnella
Mathias Rotach
Andrzej Mazur Poland
Victor Pescaru Romania
Riviv Gdaly Russia
15th Meeting of the COSMO SAC
Offenbach, DWD 4-5 Sept 2007
Participants:
Christoph Schraff
Michael Baldauf
Marco Arpagaus
Pierre Eckert
Adriano Raspanti
Ulrich Schaettler
Tiziana Paccagnella
Mathias Rotach
Andrzej Mazur Poland
Victor Pescaru Romania
Mikhail Tsyrulnikov Russia
Hayo Koppert Germany
Tiziana Paccagnella
COSMO GENERAl MEETING 2007
Glyfada, Greece September

5. SACs 14th Meeting of the COSMO SAC 15th Meeting of the COSMO SAC
Zurich, MeteoSwiss 9-11 May 2007
Participants:
Christoph Schraff
Michael Baldauf
Marco Arpagaus
Pierre Eckert
Adriano Raspanti
Ulrich Schaettler
Tiziana Paccagnella
Mathias Rotach
Andrzej Mazur Poland
Victor Pescaru Romania
Riviv Gdaly Russia
15th Meeting of the COSMO SAC
Offenbach, DWD 4-5 Sept 2007
Participants:
Christoph Schraff
Michael Baldauf
Marco Arpagaus
Pierre Eckert
Adriano Raspanti
Ulrich Schaettler
Tiziana Paccagnella
Mathias Rotach
Andrzej Mazur Poland
Victor Pescaru Romania
Mikhail Tsyrulnikov Russia
Hayo Koppert Germany
Tiziana Paccagnella
COSMO GENERAl MEETING 2007
Glyfada, Greece September

6. SACs Re-evaluate the COSMO strategy on data assimilation
14th Meeting of the COSMO SAC
Zurich, MeteoSwiss 9-11 May 2007
Participants:
Christoph Schraff
Michael Baldauf
Marco Arpagaus
Pierre Eckert
Adriano Raspanti
Ulrich Schaettler
Tiziana Paccagnella
Mathias Rotach
Andrzej Mazur Poland
Victor Pescaru Romania
Riviv Gdaly Russia
Re-evaluate the COSMO strategy on data assimilation
Tiziana Paccagnella
COSMO GENERAl MEETING 2007
Glyfada, Greece September

7. Glyfada, Greece 18-21 September
Data Assimilation
15th Meeting of the COSMO SAC
Offenbach, DWD 5 Sept 2007
Tiziana Paccagnella
COSMO GENERAl MEETING 2007
Glyfada, Greece September

8. Glyfada, Greece 18-21 September
Data Assimilation
Tuesday, September 18 (morning)
Description
Name
Time
Registration
08:30- 09:00
Opening General Meeting chaired by Ioannis Papageoriou
Welcome address by the local organizer
09:00
Welcome by the chairman of the Steering Committee
Mathias Rotach
Report from the Scientific Project Manager
Tiziana Paccagnella
...-09:45
Invited Talk
Chris Snyder
09:45- 10:30
Coffee near poster area (We need about 45 min to rearrange the main room)
10:30-11:15
Parallel Sessions: reporting
Working Group parallel sessions (see agenda of wg3, wg5)
10:50-13:00
Lunch
13:00-14:30
Tuesday, September 18 (afternoon)
Working Group parallel sessions (cont.)
14:30- 16:00
coffee near poster area
:30
Projects parallel sessions
16:30- 18:30
Tiziana Paccagnella
COSMO GENERAl MEETING 2007
Glyfada, Greece September

9. The Short Range Numerical Weather Prediction Programme of EUMETNET
13th SRNWP Meeting 12 October 2006, Zurich (Switzerland)
Three topics have been selected as SRNWP Projects that should accompany the SRNWP Programme, with a dedicated financing for each Project. They are:
- Interoperability (Uli Schaettler)
The term “Interoperability” was chosen for the ability of the different modelling systems to “work together”
- European multi-model LAM EPS (Chiara Marsigli)
- Model Verification (Pierre Eckert)
Jean Quiby will illustrate the present status of these projects
Tiziana Paccagnella
COSMO GENERAl MEETING 2007
Glyfada, Greece September

10. Glyfada, Greece 18-21 September
SACs
The allocation of qualified human resources to the some of the Priority projects is still failing. Some concurrent actions must be take to overcome this problem:
Reduce the number of the projects
Increase substantially the percentage of FTE per person. For the success of the most difficult projects, full time scientists would be required. Considering the present situation, full time will not probably be possible but an high percentage (above 50%) must be allocated.
Training must be part of the project itself, of course when required. The FTEs offered by the COSMO members, if not expert on the specific topics, must have at least the appropriate background as a pre-requisite to be trained.
COSMO needs more specialists in Numerics and Physics
The projects for the next COSMO year must be planned/revised in this optic.
Tiziana Paccagnella
COSMO GENERAl MEETING 2007
Glyfada, Greece September

11. Glyfada, Greece 18-21 September
SACs
COSMO visibility: the COSMO web site is still suffering !
Tiziana Paccagnella
COSMO GENERAl MEETING 2007
Glyfada, Greece September

12. COSMO Priority Projects
SUPPORT ACTIVITIES – WG6
SIR
1DVAR FOR SATELLITE DATA
LM_Z
COSMO Priority Projects RK
UTCS
SREPS
INTERPRETATION
INTERPRETATION/ Verif. VHR
TACKLE DEFICIENCES IN QPF
COMMON VERIFICATION – CONDITIONAL VERIFICATION
Tiziana Paccagnella
COSMO GENERAl MEETING 2007
Glyfada, Greece September

13. Glyfada, Greece 18-21 September
PLANNED
Oct Sept.2007
Germany
Swiss
Italy
Greece
Poland
Romania
TOTAL
Support Activities PL: U. Schaettler DWD
0,450
0,050
0,250
0,600
0,000
0,100
1,450
Retrievas for nudging: 1dVar for satellite radiances P.L.: R. Hess
1,200
0,800
2,600
SIR: Sequential Importance Resampling filter PL: C. Schraff DWD
0,700
0,750
Further development of LM_Z P.L.:U. Schaettler DWD
0,300
0,400
0,500
2,200
Further development of the Runge Kutta method PL: M. Baldauf DWD
0,650
1,700
UTCS: Towards Unified Turbulence-Shallow Convection Scheme PL: Dmitrii Mironov DWD
1,366
0,133
0,817
0,905
3,521
Tackle deficiencies in precipitation forecasts PL: M. Arpagaus MCH
0,550
3,250
Development of Short range ensemble PL: C.Marsigli ARPA_SIM
0,890
Advanced Interpretation of Lm output PL: P. Eckert MCH
0,200
1,420
0,120
2,140
Implementation of an Extended Common Verification Suite - Conditional Verification PL: A. Raspanti UGM
0,020
1,690
0,620
2,390
Totals
4,186
2,973
6,867
1,620
2,825
2,420
20,891
Tiziana Paccagnella
COSMO GENERAl MEETING 2007
Glyfada, Greece September

14. Glyfada, Greece 18-21 September
Evaluation at end of August 2007
Germany
Swiss
Italy
Greece
Poland
Rumenia
TOTAL
Support Activities PL: U. Schaettler DWD
0,200
0,050
0,060
0,600
0,000
0,300
1,210
Retrievas for nudging: 1dVar for satellite radiances P.L.: R. Hess
0,650
1,100
1,750
SIR: Sequential Importance Resampling filter PL: C. Schraff DWD
Further development of LM_Z P.L.:U. Schaettler DWD
0,100
0,500
0,350
0,400
1,350
Further development of the Runge Kutta method PL: M. Baldauf DWD
0,110
1,040
1,550
UTCS: Towards Unified Turbulence-Shallow Convection Scheme PL: Dmitrii Mironov DWD
0,033
0,133
0,139
0,705
Tackle deficiencies in precipitation forecasts PL: M. Arpagaus MCH
0,450
0,800
3,250
Development of Short range ensemble PL: C.Marsigli ARPA_SIM
1,220
1,720
Advanced Interpretation of Lm output PL: P. Eckert MCH
0,010
Implementation of an Extended Common Verification Suite - Conditional Verification PL: A. Raspanti UGM
0,020
1,390
0,740
2,190
Totals
2,32
2,54
5,65
2,13
0,76
2,04
15,45
Tiziana Paccagnella
COSMO GENERAl MEETING 2007
Glyfada, Greece September

15. COSMO Priority ProjectsGM GM
2007
2008
SUPPORT ACTIVITIES – WG6
SIR
Re-designed following the outcome of the Brainstorming ?
LM_Z
QPF
COSMO Priority Projects
1DVAR FOR SATELLITE DATA
UTCS
UTCS
SREPS
INTERPRETATION/ Verif. VHR RK
COMMON/CONDITIONAL VERIFICATION
Tiziana Paccagnella
COSMO GENERAl MEETING 2007
Glyfada, Greece September

16. Tuesday, September 18 (morning)
Description
Name
Time
Registration
08:30- 09:00
Opening General Meeting chaired by Ioannis Papageoriou
Welcome address by the local organizer
09:00
Welcome by the chairman of the Steering Committee
Mathias Rotach
Report from the Scientific Project Manager
Tiziana Paccagnella
...-09:45
Invited Talk
Chris Snyder
09:45- 10:30
Coffee near poster area (We need about 45 min to rearrange the main room)
10:30-11:15
Parallel Sessions: reporting
Working Group parallel sessions (see agenda of wg3, wg5)
10:50-13:00
Lunch
13:00-14:30
Tuesday, September 18 (afternoon)
Working Group parallel sessions (cont.)
14:30- 16:00
coffee near poster area
:30
Projects parallel sessions
16:30- 18:30
Friday, September 21 (morning)
Planning Parallel Sessions
Working Group parallel sessions, Steering Committee Meeting
08:30-10:30
Coffee near poster area
10:30-11:00
Projects parallel sessions, Steering Committee Meeting
11:00-13:00
Lunch
13:00-14:30

17. Glyfada, Greece 18-21 September
Next steps to Projects definition:
Projects formulated at the end of GM
Commitments from STC members to project leaders before October the 15th - The project leaders will interact directly with STC members as regards the allocation of FTEs on the different project tasks.
Tiziana Paccagnella
COSMO GENERAl MEETING 2007
Glyfada, Greece September

18. Thanks to Tuesday, September 18 (morning) Chris Snyder
Invited Talk
Chris Snyder
09:45- 10:30
Wednesday, September 19 (morning)
Current activities and plans of UKMO
Clive Wilson
09:00-09:30
Current activities and plans of LACE
Dijana Klariæ
09:30-10:00