1. COPS - FRANCE Proposal submitted to ANR, LEFE/INSU & TOSCA/CNES

2. COPS - FRANCE Proposal submitted to ANR, LEFE/INSU & TOSCA/CNES FINANCIAL SUPPORT: 700 k€

3. COPS - FRANCE Proposal submitted to ANR, LEFE/INSU & TOSCA/CNES FINANCIAL SUPPORT: 700 k€ + 18 month of post-doc secured through ANR + 2 x 24 month of post-doc requested from INSU/CNRS

4. ACTIVITIES Instrumentation / Modelling / Assimilation WP1: Process study – Convection initiation (IPSL, LA, LaMP) WP2: Process study – Aérosols and cloud microphysics (LaMP, LA) WP3: Process study – Life cycle of precipitating processes (LA, GAME) WP4: Data assimilation (CNRM, LA, LaMP) WP5: IASI and CALIPSO level 2 products (IPSL, CNRM, LaMP, LA) WP6: Contribution to the COPS experimental set up (IPSL, LaMP, GAME)

5. PARTICIPANTS & RESPONSABILITIES LA (CNRS, Toulouse) – E. Richard  Overall scientific coordination  Numerical simulations – case studies CNRM (Météo-France, Toulouse) – F. Bouttier  Assimilation (AROME)  Supersite instrumentation (4-M) IPSL (CNRS, Palaiseau) – C. Flamant  Overall coordination of ground-based and airborne COPS- FRA experimental contribution  operation of LEANDRE 2 on SAFIRE/F20  Supersite instrumentation (TReSS & Raman lidar)  Upstream site (SIRTA) LaMP (CNRS, Clermont-Ferrand) – J. Van Baelen  Supersite instrumentation (radars)  Coordination GPS network effort over eastern France

6. MODELLING Clark’s model + DESCAM (very detailed microphysics – bin type model from CCN/ICN to liquid/solid precipitation Méso-NH model (two-moment microphysics) AROME (systematic forecasts within MAP-D-PHASE)

7. ASSIMILATION 3D-Var AROME data assimilation system In real time all conventional available meso-scale observations After the experiment : GPS zenithal delays and lidar & radar data

8. 1 - Supersite in the Vosges & Rhine valley Hartheim S1 S2 S3 S4 Tuttlingen Rhine valley:  CNRM / 4-M RDS station UHF + sodar Surface flux stations (3) Soil moisture station (1-3)  IPSL TReSS (Mini-Lidar + CIMEL +) Lidar Raman Vosges:  LaMP X- and K- band radars Disdrometers & rain gauges ?  1 month (tbd July or August 2007)  together with SAFIRE F20 operations EXPERIMENTAL CONTRIBUTION

9. 2 - 16+ GPS stations network over Eastern France 3 – Upstream operations at SIRTA 4 – Routine observations from Météo-France  Montancy radar data sent in real time for Radar Composite  3 months (June-August 2007)

10. 5 – Airborne Operations Falcon 20 equiped with: WV DIAL LEANDRE 2 Dropsondes  24 days of July 2007  35 flight hours  120 dropsondes

11. FUNDING BREAK-UP ANR: 300 k€INSU + CNES + Météo-France: 400 k€ Operations at the Supersite (recce, missions, consumables, etc..) 120 k€ GPS stations network (recce, missions, consumables, etc..) 30 k€ Falcon 20 operations (dropsondes, missions, SAFIRE costs, etc..) 340 k€ Missions (conferences, meetings, coordination, etc..) 120 k€ Post-doc (6 mois) 30 k€ Reserve (extra cost, extension of detachment by a few days, etc..) 60 k€

12. OPEN QUESTIONS Dropsondes over eastern France and Southwestern Germany? « Aérosol » component on the French Supersite? Coordination between the main decision center and the supersites? Location of the main decision center?