Report of the Scientific Project Manager 6th COSMO General Meeting

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Report of the Scientific Project Manager6th
COSMO General Meeting Milano, Italy 22-24
September 2004 Tiziana Paccagnella, ARPA-SMR
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New colleagues
Grzegorz and Witek from IMGW (Warsaw) Antonio
from CIMA (Genova) Giovanni and Marco from
ARPA-SIM (Bologna) David from GIUB (Berne) Linda
from MIUB (Bonn) Thorsten from DWD
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Internal Meetings

• WG1 Francesca di Giuseppe, Tiziana Paccagnella
  and Blazej Krzeminski 2 days visit to DWD
  (1-D var )
• WG2 Workshop 21 September 2004 Milano
• Heinz Bitzer 1 week visit to Bologna (Cesari-
  LM-Z library)
• WG3 Workshop 21 September 2004 Milano
• Giovanni Bonafè 2 days visit to Mathias
  Raschendorfer Jan. 2004 Russian scientists
  visited DWD in 2004 (lake model)
• WG4 Workshop May 2004 Geneve
• 21-22 September 2004 Milano
• Mathias Rotach and Andrè Valser two days visit
  to Bologna
• Andrè Valser to Bologna July 2004
• Christian Keil during sept till dec 2003
  DLR/DWD
• Ulrich Schättler to DLR
• WG5 Workshop May 2004 Geneve
• WG6 Meeting on Code Optimization and
  Portability
• MeteoSwiss, CSCS and DWD
• 1 Week visit of Greek colleagues to DWD

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Internal Meetings
STC meeting Athens 28-29 November 2003
SPM Approval of the Activities/priorities Work
Packages/Groups Coordinators meeting Chairman
Steering Committee G. Doms
M.Rotach Geneve, 6-7 May 2004 Revision of
ongoing activities Work Packages/Groups
Coordinators meeting Bologna, 9-10 September
2004 Last remarks about ongoing activities and
preliminary planning of activities for the next
year
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General comments

• Data assimilation
• activities are ongoing
• good advance (start) of activities related
  to SAT data assimilation
• no sensible improvement in radar data
  assimilation.
• Numerics
• small group
• LM-Z common library almost ready
• LM-Z report planned for next year

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General comments

• Physics
• Activities are ongoing some delays. This
  WG still suffers from lack of human
  resources, although the situation has much
  improved since the last General Meeting.
  Difficulties in cooperaating from remote.
• Nobody taking care of radiation in LM
• Applications
• COSMO-LEPS is running regularly. The system
  has been recently changed following results
  of probabilistic verification (to be shown
  later)
• A report to resume the results of the
  system validation is under planning.

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General comments

• Applications
• Other LM applications developed
• Not yet a catalog of LM post-processing
• Guidelines for the use of bench
  forecasters and Collection of forecasters
  feed back
• A proposition will be elaborated by by P.
  Eckert, F. Sch ubiger, C. Cacciamani, B.
  Anger

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General comments

• Verification
• Still difficulties in pointing out common LM
  problems.
• Common verification package development is well
  addressed.
• Exchange of data is running extension if this
  exchange also to other counties outside COSMO.

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General comments

• Implementation
• From LM3.5 to LM3.12
• Problems with the WEB-SITE now moved to Manno.
• Documentation still incomplete
• Newsletter No. 4 distributed.

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Work Packages/Groups Coordinators meeting
Bologna, 9-10 September 2004
Most of the meeting was spent in general
discussion to focuse the different problems in
carrying on the activities and discussing other
items related to our COSMO technical
organization. Perspectives and specific tasks for
next year have been drafted as a preparatory work
for the planning phase of tomorrow.
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Goals and perspectives for the past COSMO
period(10/2003-09/2004) are Goals
Consolidation, Documentation and Upgrade of the
LM Quality of precipitation forecast Assessment
of the 'realism' of forecasts Multi-national
assement assesment of COSMO-LEPS
products Assimilation of remote sensing data
Application and Interpretation Statistical
interpretation of high resolution forecasts
Paving the way for the Meso-gamma
scale Z-coordinate model version New
parameterization schemes forefront verification
and case studies Perspective Issues are
Variational Methods for Estimating Local
Parameters