SRNWP Expert Team on surface processes

The fourth meeting of the Expert Team on surface processes took place one day after the 3rd lake workshop and was kindly hosted at FMI thanks to Laura Rontu and Ekatarina Kurzeneva. Each consortium had at least one representative. This has allowed a rather comprehensive review of the activities among Europe. Discussions concerned the use of the SRNWP Data pool that has been set-up and maintained by COSMO, on activities related to the improvement of the lake databases and climatologies, and (…)

The third meeting of the Expert Team on surface processes took place one day before the ECMWF Annual Seminar and was kindly hosted at ECMWF thanks to Patricia de Rosnay and Gianpaolo Balsamo. Each consortium had at least one representative. This has allowed a rather comprehensive review of the activities among Europe. Discussions concerned the use of the COLOBOC/SRNWP Data pool that has been set-up and maintained by COSMO, on activities related to the improvement of the lake databases and (…)

A second meeting of the Expert Team on surface processes took place during the last EMS conference in Zürich and was kindly hosted by Meteo Swiss, thanks to Jean-Marie Bettems. The first part was devoted to the description on the database of in-situ measurements for local validation of NWP land surface schemes. This activity which is part of the COLOBOC project of the COSMO consortium has been endorsed by SRNWP in order to make the data available to our community. The second part was (…)

Useful links and documents Workplan for 2008-2009Responses to the request from the SRNWP interoperability programme (02/07/2009) Summary of planned actions in 2008Review talk on surface issues (2008)Main programme of the 2008 EWGLAM-SRNWP meeting (including pdf presentations)Review talk on surface issues (2009)Main programme of the 2009 EWGLAM-SRNWP meeting (including pdf presentations)

Objective of the meeting The 14th SRNWP meeting held in October 2007 (Dubrovnik, Croatia) proposed the creation of eight Expert Teams according to various aspects of short range numerical weather prediction in order to enhance collaborations between the five main European consortia. Regarding the ET on “surface processes†a draft workplan was written at the beginning of 2008 providing guidelines on possible collaborations over the coming years. This draft was presented and discussed (…)