1. GEOWOW update Richard Swinbank GIFS-TIGGE meeting March 2014
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2. The Weather component (WP4) includes support for TIGGE:
GEOWOW (GEOSS interoperability for Weather, Ocean and Water) is a 3-year EU-funded FP7 project started September 2011.
The Weather component (WP4) includes support for TIGGE:
Development of improved ensemble-based forecast products
TIGGE-LAM archive
Time-series data – for specified set of locations
Provision of data in netcdf format as alternative to GRIB2

3. GEOWOW WP4 tasks 4.1 Content and accessibility of TIGGE archive
TIGGE-LAM data now being archived
Working on time-series archive

4. GEOWOW WP4 tasks 4.2 TIGGE data quality, calibration and combination
Developed new ensemble calibration scheme
Targets local statistical reliability
Paper published in Tellus
Work in hand to apply scheme to UK ensemble forecasts

5. GEOWOW WP4 tasks
4.3 Development and evaluation of applications for high-impact weather-hazards and extreme meteorological events
River discharge model
Products for SWFDP
Multi-model ensemble TC tracks
Real-time version of Mio Matsueda’s products
Doubt about whether products can be evaluated within project timescale.
Capacity building
Focus on W Africa

6. Multi-model track & strike probability plots for Sandy

7. Thank-you any questions…?
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