Workshop on deep convection around Arome, Toulouse, 24-25 November 2008

This workshop took place in Toulouse on Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 November 2008. Short presentations were followed by discussions around the different talks.

1. Current status of mesoscale models (Monday morning)
   1. AROME in Météo-France :
      1. Operational configuration(G. Hello)
      2. EDKF (S. Malardel)
      3. Latest evolutions of the operational configuration (FA, Canopy,
         SLHD) (Y. Seity)
      4. Scores of AROME suite (J. Stein)
   2. AROME in HIRLAM :
      1. Overview of daily AROME runs in AEMET (J. Calvo)
      2. Experiments on outflow problem and IKE (J. Barkmeijer)
      3. Experiences pour AROME/ALARO at SMHI (L.Bengtsson)
   3. ALARO :
      1. ALARO physics in (pre-)operational use (N. Pristov)
      2. 3MT and other aspects controlling the convective behavior in ALARO
         (J.F. Geleyn)
   4. ALADIN-France :
      1. Recent evolutions and perspectives (F. Bouyssel)
2. Studies on modeling convection (Monday afternoon)
   1. Evaluation of AROME in AMMA (M. Nuret and C. Kocha)
   2. Preliminary AROME results at 500m horizontal resolution (L. Auger)
   3. Sensitivity of the QPF with dynamics and physics at 2.5km (E. Bazile)
   4. Evaluation of 3MT in ARPEGE, ALADIN-Fr (J.M. Piriou)
   5. Adjustment, geometry and mass-flux aspects of 3MT (J.F. Geleyn)
3. Academic cases and equations (Tuesday morning)
   1. Introduction to multi-phasic interfacing problems (S. Malardel)
   2. Multi-phasic aspects at high resolution: numerical and physical
      open issues (J.F. Geleyn)
   3. Warm bubble tests (S. Malardel)
4. Discussion on common work (Tuesday afternoon)