The IMO of Iceland hosted the 23^rd ALADIN workshop / HIRLAM All-Staff Meeting 2013 (Reykjavik, 15-18 April 2013). On Friday 19 April, the usual CSSI/HMG management meeting took place.

All local information at http://www.yourhost.is/all-staff-meeting-2013/home.html.

Agenda and list of participants, updated on April 15, 2013

• For Local Team managers (or their substitutes) and CSSI members :
  • LMT meeting on Monday (15:50-18:00)
  • HMG/CSSI meeting on Friday (09:00-18:00)

• Access to the live stream during the plenary sessions : http://livefromiceland.com/iframe/?width=512&height=288&stream=snjor&app=beint&autoplay=yes&icons=yes
• records of the presentations are available through half-day films here (access for partners only)

On-line presentations of the workshop

• Plenary opening session
  • Piet Termonia: ALADIN status overview
  • Jeanette Onvlee : HIRLAM activities and highlights
  • Yong Wang : LACE activities 2012/2013
  • Gergely Boloni : Status of the EUMETNET C-SRNWP project
• Plenary session 1 : Data assimilation and use of observations
  • Jean-Francois Mahfouf : Recent usage of observations in Meteo-France data assimilation systems
  • Magnus Lindskog : Harmonie ATOVS data assimilation and coordinated impact study
  • Roger Randriamampianina : The radar data assimilation at OMSZ and met.no
  • Siebren de Haan : On Mode-S EHS observations: quality issues, impact and the future
  • Mate Mile : Arome data assimilation activities in Hungary
  • Tuuli Perttula : Towards assimilating IASI satellite observations over cold surfaces – the cloud detection aspect
  • Carlos Geijo : Progress on radar data assimilation in Harmonie using the field alignment technique : Application to Doppler Wind Data
  • Antonin Bucanek : Evolution of dispersion spectra during successive steps of the assimilation cycle
  • Xiaohua Yang : Harmonie 3DVAR-RUC with asynoptic base time
  • Jan Barkmeijer : Harmonie at KNMI and future plans
  • Nils Gustafsson : HIRLAM 4DEnsVar – discussion and first results
  • Claude Fischer : Status of assimilation methods at Meteo-France
  • Jelena Bojarova: Data assimilation and ensemble prediction: an enriching partnership
  • Piet Termonia : A Short-Time Augmented Extended Kalman Filter for the surface
  • Annelies Duerinckx : Preliminary results on combining Surfex EKF with 3D-Var atmospheric assimilation for ALARO
  • Mariken Homleid : Harmonie snow analysis
  • Homa Kheyrollapour : improvement of objective analysis of lake surface state in Hirlam using satellite observations
  • General discussion
• Plenary session 2: Probabilistic forecasting and LAMEPS
  • Theresa Gorgas : News on research and development in ALADIN-LAEF
  • Inger-Lise Frogner : GLAMEPS and HarmonEPS experimentation and plans
  • Geert Smet : Surface perturbations by cycling surface breeding
  • Ã…ke Johansson : Impact of a Hybrid Variational-Ensemble Data Assimilation System on the Performance of an ETKF-based EPS System
  • Sibbo van der Veen : The impact of using CAPE singular vector perturbations in GLAMEPS
  • General discussion
• Plenary session 3: Operational experiences
  • Sander Tijm : Systematic Harmonie problems as seen from a user perspective
  • Javier Calvo : On Harmonie/Arome progress at AEMET
  • Trygve Aspelien : Arome-Norway – from experiments to official public forecasts available for the whole wide world
  • General discussion
• Plenary session 4: Dynamics
  • Jozef Vivoda : Vertical finite elements in the NH dynamical core of ALADIN
  • Petra Smolikova : LACE – dynamics and coupling
  • Daan Degrauwe : Localized horizontal discretizations with appropriate adjustment properties for the ALADIN dynamics
  • Marco Kupiainen : Energy estimates and weak boundary procedures for LAM
  • General discussion
• Plenary session 5: Model physics
  • Yves Bouteloup : Status of Arpege and Arome physics
  • Laura Rontu : Summary and update of the stable boundary layer workshop
  • Neva Pristov : ALARO-1: an overview
  • Radmila Brozkova : ALARO-0 baseline: status and latest results on convective diurnal cycle
  • Lisa Bengtsson : A closer look at fog over sea, clouds in cold conditions and deep convection in Harmonie
  • Kristian Pagh Nielsen : Aspects of the radiation scheme in Harmonie
  • Sigurdur Thorsteinsson : Impact of sub-grid orographic drag on weather forecasts in Iceland
  • Ekatherina Kourzeneva : Recent HIRLAM lake-related activities
  • General discussion
• Plenary session 6: System aspects and verification
  • Claude Fischer : Status of cycles; OOPS
  • Ryad El-Khatib : Fullpos-2
  • Ulf Andrae : The status of the Harmonie system
  • Ulf Andrae : computational challenges and aspects of Harmonie
  • Enda O’Brien : Accelerating Harmonie with GPU’s
  • Filip Vana : The OpenIFS project at ECMWF
  • Christoph Zingerle : HARP – a common framework for verification
  • Xiaohua Yang : Validation of Harmonie Cy38h1
  • Sami Niemela : FROST-14 – first experiences of deterministic Harmonie in the Sochi region
  • General discussion
• Plenary closing session
• Working Groups :
  • WG on system aspect : summary of the discussion
  • WG on transversal predictability – data assimilation issues
    • Following Fabry & Sun by Jose Antonio Garcia-Moya (given by Nils)
    • introduction of the discussion and aim of the WG
    • Summary of working group meeting on transversal DA-EPS-Phys aspects

Posters

• Alica Bajic: The NWP activities in Croatia
• Patrik Benacek: First test of water vapour regimes verification using SAL
• Dag Bjorge: Norwegian Meteorological Institute- operational use of Harmonie AROME
• Gergely Boloni: NWP at the Hungarian Meteorological Service ;
  Improving wintertime low cloud forecasts over Hungary: First experiments (on behalf of Balázs Szintai, Eric Bazile, Yann Seity, François Bouyssel)
• Javier Calvo: Long-term verification of HIRLAM and ECMWF models
• Jure Cedilnik: ALADIN related activities in Slovenia
• Maria Derkova: ALADIN related activities at SHMU
• Emily Gleeson: Short-wave radiation schemes in Harmonie
• Hassan Haddouch : Numerical Weather Prediction in Morocco 2013 (not presented in Reykjavik as Hassan didn’t attend)
• Marek Jerczynski: ALADIN related activities in Poland
• Ersin Kucukkaraca: ALADIN in Turkey
• Tomas Landelius : Correction of non-additive errors in the HIRLAM hybrid ensemble variational data assimilation using image registration approach
• Andres Luhamaa: Harmonie activities in Estonia
• Maria Monteiro: ALADIN - Scientific and Technical activities at IPMA
• Bolli Palmason: Harmonie @ IMO – Visualisation and application
• Tuuli Perttula: Impact of IASI satellite observations in harmonie during convective storm events in Finland
• Emiel van der Plas: Assessing quality of high resolution forecasts
• Patricia Pottier: The NWP systems at Meteo-France
• Zied Sassi: ALADIN in Tunisia
• Petra Smolikova: New developments and operational changes at CHMI
• Antonio Stanesic: Radar data assimilation at DHMZ
• Simona Tascu: ALADIN related activities in Roamnia
• Alena Trojakova: Latest status of BlendVar developments at CHMI
• Boryana Tsenova: Status of operational applications in Bulgaria
• Ole Vignes: MetCoOp – operational cooperation between SMHI and met.no
• Eoin Whelan : NWP in MetEireann
• Christoph Wittmann: NWP related activities in Austria
• Kristian Pagh Nielsen : Assimilation of radar precipitation in the MDI-HIRLAM nowcasting system : part 1, Methodology and preliminary results ; part 2, initial results (Authors: Ulrik Smith Korholm, Claus Petersen and Henrik Vedel)