1. Report of the Scientific Project Manager 6th COSMO General Meeting
Milano, Italy
22-24 September 2004
Tiziana Paccagnella, ARPA-SMR
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2. New colleagues Grzegorz and Witek from IMGW (Warsaw)
Antonio from CIMA (Genova)
Giovanni and Marco from ARPA-SIM (Bologna)
David from GIUB (Berne)
Linda from MIUB (Bonn)
Thorsten from DWD
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3. Internal Meetings
WG1: Francesca di Giuseppe, Tiziana Paccagnella and Blazej Krzeminski 2 days visit to DWD (1-D var )
WG2: Workshop: 21 September 2004; Milano
Heinz Bitzer 1 week visit to Bologna (Cesari- LM-Z library)
WG3: Workshop: 21 September 2004; Milano
Giovanni Bonafè 2 days visit to Mathias Raschendorfer Jan Russian scientists visited DWD in 2004 (lake model)
WG4: Workshop: May 2004 Geneve
21-22 September 2004 Milano
Mathias Rotach and Andrè Valser two days visit to Bologna
Andrè Valser to Bologna July 2004
Christian Keil : during sept till dec 2003: DLR/DWD
Ulrich Schättler to DLR
WG5: Workshop: May 2004 Geneve
WG6: Meeting on “Code Optimization and Portability“
MeteoSwiss, CSCS and DWD
1 Week visit of Greek colleagues to DWD
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4. STC meeting Athens 28-29 November 2003 + SPM
Internal Meetings
STC meeting Athens November 2003
+ SPM
Approval of the Activities/priorities
Work Packages/Groups Coordinators meeting
+ Chairman Steering Committee + G. Doms + M.Rotach
Geneve, 6-7 May 2004
Revision of ongoing activities
Bologna, 9-10 September 2004
Last remarks about ongoing activities and preliminary planning of activities for the next year
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5. activities are ongoing
General comments
Data assimilation:
activities are ongoing
good advance (start) of activities related to SAT data assimilation
no sensible improvement in radar data assimilation.
Numerics:
small group
LM-Z common library “almost” ready
LM-Z report planned for next year
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6. Nobody taking care of radiation in LM Applications:
General comments
Physics:
Activities are ongoing; some delays. This WG still suffers from lack of human resources, although the situation has much improved since the last General Meeting. Difficulties in cooperaating from remote.
Nobody taking care of radiation in LM
Applications:
COSMO-LEPS is running regularly. The system has been recently changed following results of probabilistic verification (to be shown later)
A report to resume the results of the system validation is under planning.
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7. Other LM applications developed
General comments
Applications:
Other LM applications developed
Not yet a catalog of LM post-processing
Guidelines for the use of bench forecasters and Collection of forecaster’s feed back
A proposition will be elaborated by by P. Eckert, F. Sch ubiger, C. Cacciamani, B. Anger
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8. Still difficulties in pointing out common LM problems.
General comments
Verification:
Still difficulties in pointing out common LM problems.
Common verification package development is well addressed.
Exchange of data is running; extension if this exchange also to other counties outside COSMO.
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9. Problems with the WEB-SITE now moved to Manno.
General comments
Implementation:
From LM3.5 to LM3.12
Problems with the WEB-SITE now moved to Manno.
Documentation still incomplete
Newsletter No. 4 distributed.
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10. Work Packages/Groups Coordinators meeting Bologna, 9-10 September 2004
Most of the meeting was spent in general discussion to focuse the different problems in carrying on the activities and discussing other items related to our COSMO technical organization.
Perspectives and specific tasks for next year have been drafted as a preparatory work for the planning phase of tomorrow.
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11. Quality of precipitation forecast
Goals and perspectives for the past COSMO period (10/ /2004) are:
Goals :
Consolidation, Documentation and Upgrade of the LM
Quality of precipitation forecast
Assessment of the 'realism' of forecasts
Multi-national assement assesment of COSMO-LEPS products
Assimilation of remote sensing data
Application and Interpretation
Statistical interpretation of high resolution forecasts
Paving the way for the Meso-gamma scale
Z-coordinate model version
New parameterization schemes
forefront verification and case studies
Perspective Issues are:
Variational Methods for Estimating Local Parameters
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