The National Meteorological Administration of Romania will host the 24^th ALADIN workshop / HIRLAM All-Staff Meeting 2014 (07-10 April 2014) and HMG/CSSI meeting (11 April 2014), in Bucharest.

 Practical information on the local organiser webpage

 Agenda and list of participants, proposed on April 10

 On-line presentations of the workshop

• opening session
  • Piet Termonia : ALADIN status overview
  • Jeanette Onvlee : Hirlam activities: highlights and challenges
  • Gergely Boloni : Status of the EUMETNET C-SRNWP project
• Session 1 : Physics/Surface modelling
  • Neva Pristov : ALARO-1 - an overview of developments
  • Yann Seity : Status and plans of AROME-France 1.3 km (model part)
  • Daan Degrauwe : Physics Organization: Cleaning and Convergence
  • Jun-Ichi Yano : Basic concepts for convection parametrization in weather forecast and climate models: COST Action ES0905
  • Radmila Brozkova : Microphysics in 3MT and Grey Zone Experiments
  • Yves Bouteloup : Arpege High Resolution Experimental Suite
  • Carl Fortelius : Single-column experiments with the EFB turbulence closure
  • Wim de Rooy : Erroneous sea fog forecasts in HARMONIE: Analysis and experiences with a new turbulence scheme
  • Balázs Szintai : Improving wintertime low cloud forecasts in AROME: sensitivity experiments and microphysics tuning
  • Pieter De Meutter : The Belgium Pukkelpop storm: a challenge for simulating deep convection
  • Laura Rontu : Snow perspectives
  • Clemens Wastl: Experiences with AROME in Austria
  • Daniel Martin : Statistical cloud scheme research with HARMONIE
  • Madalina Stoica : Forecast Efficiency in Green Farms production (presentation on behalf of the social event sponsor)
  • General discussion
• Session 2 : Dynamics
  • Petra Smolikova : Dynamics and coupling in LACE
  • Piet Termonia : Could there be a need for a horizontal finite-element discretization?
  • Mariano Hortal : Aliasing and upper-level explosions two fixes
• Session 3 : System aspects and verification
  • Ulf Andrae : Harmonie system status
  • Enda O’Brien : Running HARMONIE on Xeon Phi coprocessors
  • Ryad El-Khatib : One year of optimizations on the first scalar supercomputer of Meteo-France
  • Claude Fischer : About cycling ... oops
  • Eoin Whelan : COPE, an overview
  • Christoph Zingerle : Developments in the HARP verification package
  • Xiaohua Yang : HARMONIE Regular Cycle with the Reference
  • Sami Niemela : FROST-2014: Performance of Harmonie 1km during Sochi Olympics
  • Sander Tijm : Validation and use of HARMONIE at KNMI
• Session 4 : Data assimilation and use of observations
  • Mate Mile : Data Assimilation activities in RC LACE countries
  • Claude Fischer : Preparations of MF’s assimilation systems to higher resolution
  • Jelena Bojarova : Problems (and solutions? ...)
  • Sibbo van der Veen : Optimisation of cloud initialisation in Harmonie and verification results
  • Jean-Francois Mahfouf : Recent usage of observations in Meteo-France data assimilation systems
  • Martin Ridal : Assimilation of OPERA radar data in HARMONIE
  • Teresa Valkonen : Scatterometer winds in rapidly developing storms — Experiences with the Harmonie data assimilation
  • Benedikt Strajnar : Collection and assimilation of Mode-S MRAR aircraft observations in Slovenia
  • Trygve Aspelien : SODA and surface assimilation in HARMONIE
  • Rafiq Hamdi : Study of the Jacobian of an EKF for soil analysis in SURFEX
  • Carlos Geijo : Analysis of HARMONIE Forecasts Sensitivity to initial data with simulated radar observations
  • Cornel Soci : Daily precipitation analysis by optimum interpolation using high-resolution background and rain gauge data
  • Roger Randriamampianina : Progress in data assimilation and implementation of an AROME model over Arctic
  • Florian Meier : Recent development of data assimilation in AROME Austria
  • Roger Randriamampianina : HATM (Hirlam Aladin Tools Market): Implemented tools for common use. With contribution from all centres.
  • General discussion
• Session 5 : Probabilistic forecasting and LAMEPS
  • Theresa Schellander-Gorgas : Status of LAM-EPS development in LACE
  • Inger-Lise Frogner : HarmonEPS and GLAMEPSv1 for the Sochi Olympic Games
  • Alex Deckmyn :Introducing GLAMEPS-v2
  • Bartolome Orfila : Perspectives on EPS at EUMETNET and AEMET
• Closing session
• Working Groups
  • Working Group 1 on radar : agenda and minutes
  • Working Group 2 on surface data assimilation and SODA development
  • Working Group 3 on system aspects
  • Working Group on physics

 Posters

• Alica Bajic : NWP activities in the Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Croatia
• Jan Barkmeijer, Magnus Lindskog, Cisco de Bruijn, Emiel v.d. Plas and Siebren de Haan : Optimal use of Mode-S EHS in Harmonie at KNMI: current status and plans
• Gergely Boloni : NWP at the Hungarian Meteorological Service
• Andrey Bogatchev : Status of operational application in Bulgaria
• Antonin Bucanek : Sigma_b maps in Aladin
• Alex Deckmyn : Belgium national poster
• Maria Derkova : Aladin related activities @ SHMU
• Emily Gleeson : Radiation in Harmonie
• Emily Gleeson : Irish climate re-analysis studies
• Hassan Haddouch : Moroccan National Poster
• Rafiq Hamdi : Coupling SURFEX_V7.2 to ALARO within cycle CY38T1
• Rafiq Hamdi : Regional climate modeling activities at the RMI
• Mariken Homleid & Dagrun Vikhamar : Surface modelling - nordic challenges
• Karl-Ivar Ivarsson (presented by Wim de Rooy) : Modification of Arome ICE3 cloud physics
• Marek Jerczynski : National poster
• Ersin Kucukkaraca : NWP related activities in Turkey
• Aarne Männik : Numerical weather prediction environment in Estonian Environmental Agency
• Jan Masek : Validation of ACRANE2 Radiation Scheme
• Florian Meier : NWP related activities in Austria
• Maria Monteiro : ALADIN - Portuguese technical and scientific activities]
• Maria Monteiro : A sensitivity test to the SST variation in the Mainland version of AROME/Portugal
• Mirela Pietrisi : Romanian National Poster
• Patricia Pottier : The NWP systems at Meteo-France
• Neva Pristov : ALADIN in Slovenia
• Roger Randriamampianina : Operational NWP systems at MET Norway
• Velle Toll : Modelling the direct radiative effect of wildfire smoke on a severe thunderstorm event with the HARMONIE model
• Alena Trojakova : The NWP activities at CHMI
• Wim Verkley : Impact of radar data assimilation in HARMONIE
• Eoin Whelan : NWP in MetEireann
• Christoph Wittman : National poster Austria

  HMG/CSSI meeting

For HIRLAM Management Group and ALADIN Committee for Scientific and System/maintenance Issues, meeting on Friday 11, 2014 09:00-18:00

 On-line registration for HOTEL AND WORKSHOP : deadline March 7, 2014

The participants will be hosted in Marshal Garden Hotel (also the meeting venue) or Duke Hotel (see the local organising webpage for information about the proposed hotels.

 List of registered participants