1. Support Activities and WG 6 Overview Status Report
Reference Version and Implementation
WG Coordinator and Project Leader: Ulrich Schättler

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Subtasks of SA
Source Code Administration
Web Page Administration
Contents Management
Web Master
Documentations, Newsletter, Technical Report
Documentation
COSMO Newsletter
Technical Reports
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3. Source Code Administration
Starting point last autumn:
COSMO-Model 4.0 including:
Runge-Kutta dynamics; high-resolution applications
Climate mode functionality
INT2LM 1.6: on the way to full climate mode functionality
Plans for the year 2007/08:
Consolidation of the schemes
Finish INT2LM to work fully in climate mode
Include new components (2-moment microphysics, COSMO-ART)
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4. Source Code Administration
COSMO-Model 4.1/4.2: ( )
Bug fixes for reproducibility (DA, RK, SL-adv)
Calculation of supercell detection indices
Changes in the gust parameterization
Brightband detection in radar data
COSMO-Model 4.3: ( )
Changed computation of 2m Temperature
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5. Source Code Administration
COSMO-Model 4.4: ( )
Changed treatment of convective cloud condensate in the Tiedtke convection scheme
Changed structure of advection routines in the RK dynamics for a better optimization
Optimizations for a better vectorization
COSMO-Model 4.5: ( )
Reading observations from a NetCDF file
Correction for computing reference pressure on half levels
Introduction of the SSO scheme
Implemented alternative reference atmosphere
Further optimizations for RK dynamics and vectorization
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6. Source Code Administration
INT2LM 1.7 ( )
Additional humidity splitting after balancing / filtering pp
Implemented several options for treatment of deep-soil and plant characteristics (for CCLM)
Implemented „Ensemble Mode“ to provide different boundary conditions to the COSMO-Model
INT2LM 1.8 ( )
Optimizations for vectorization
Interpolation of qr and qs from the GME grid
Read new external parameters (for SSO, topographical corrections)
Adaptations for climate mode
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7. Source Code Administration
Officially tested and distributed in Dec 2007:
COSMO-Model 4.2 and INT2LM 1.7
Development version distributed in March 2008
COSMO-Model 4.3
Development versions (not distributed):
COSMO-Model 4.4, 4.5 and INT2LM 1.8
Work is going on to implement
2-moment microphysics
COSMO-ART
Official release in autumn 2008!
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8. Web Page Administration
Last years requirements from STC Meeting
Want to see a detailed description of the subtasks
FTEs are only counted if visible work has been done
Want to see a perfect web site next year
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9. Web Page Administration
Contents Management:
Changed structure of the home-page a bit
Highlights of updated pages:
COSMO Tasks
Working Groups
Priority Projects
Operational (Applications; Namelist input for COSMO, INT2LM)
User Support
Training
We decided not to use a Contents Management System, but the „editable pages“
Still missing are the updates for COSMO-Model, Publications, Collaborations
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10. Web Page Administration
Technical Administration:
Many changes and implementations necessary for
Restructuring (no more public and private pages visible)
implementing editable pages
implementing excel functionality
implementing Namelist Input functionality
Connection to Greek server much faster since several months
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11. Web Page Administration
Could we fulfill the requirements from STC?
Want to see a detailed description of the subtasks
Ok.
FTEs are only counted if visible work has been done
I think: Ok.
Want to see a perfect web site next year
well….there sure is room for improvement!
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Documentation
New versions of the User Guides for the COSMO-Model and the INT2LM (out of date since last week, Sorry)
2 COSMO Newsletters
No. 7: April 2008
No. 8: August 2008
2 COSMO Technical Reports
No. 10: December 2007
No. 11: August 2008
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WG 6 Activities
We concentrated solely on the Support Activities
WG 6 Activities will be started again (hopefully) in the coming year
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THE END
Thank you for your Attention
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