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Draft Agenda: Management Committee Meeting 3, Working Groups and Joint NetFAM Workshop

COST Action ES0702: Integrated Ground-Based Observations of Essential Variables for Climate and Operational Meteorology EG-CLIMET.

Oslo (Norway), 18-20 Mar 2009

Wednesday 18 March , 09h00

Joint NetFAM-COST ES0702 workshop on

‘Usage of local, micrometeorological and remote sensing observations for data-assimilation and validation of mesoscale atmospheric models”.

09h00 Welcome to participants

09h20-11h00: Session one: Parameters and Instrumentation.

Volker Lehmann -The European wind proflier network C-WINDE – problems and prospects.
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Anthony Illingworth – Comparison of FM-CW and pulsed cloud radars and Doppler lidars.
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Nico Cimini – Passive Ground based remote sensing using microwave radiometers.
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Giovanni Martucci – Cloud base determination with lidar ceilometers.
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Coffee

11h20 -13h00 Session two: Data assimilation.

Per Unden – Overview of data assimilation activities
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Kirsti Salonen - Assimilation or radar winds
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Reima Eresmaa - Assimilation of GPS data
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Lunch – 13h00 to 14h00

14h00-14h30 Isabelle Ruedi (WMO):

“ WMO Observing programmes and their future requirements."
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14h30-15h00 J Dibbern (EUCOS/DWD): ‘The EUMETNET Composite Observing Network - status

and new programmatic objectives for 2009-2011’.
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Coffee

1520h-17h00 Session three: Observing Experiments.

Catherine Gaffard – WG3 Field experiments for EG_Climet
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Martial Haeffelin – Lidars in existing networks for detecting boundary layer top.
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Joel Van Baelen/Dirk Englebart – State of the art of GPS tomography from the LUAMI campaign and possibilities in existing networks.
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Jani Poutiainen – Helsinki testbed presentation.
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Dominique Ruffieux – Swiss ground-based remote sensing network and its use in NWP assimilation.
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Thursday 19 March, 09h00

09h00-10h40 Session four. Optimum Observing strategies

Herman Russchenberg – Observing the atmosphere over Europe: needs and methods.
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Ulrich Loehnert – Advances in multi-instrument retrievals of the clear and cloudy atmospheric state: New synergies and applications.
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Jan Cermak – Optimum observations strategies: satellite data for spatial context.
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John Nash – Preliminary thoughts on the relationships between lower troposphere profile data at individual sites and various spatial scales in the horizontal
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Coffee

11h10-11h30 J –F Mahfouf ‘ Data assimilation of surface data’.
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11h30-12h00 O Bousquet: ‘The HYMEX campaign’
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12h00-12h20 J van Baelen - Proposal for a STSM LUAMI & GPS Tomography
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Martial Haeffelin – On the representativity of ice clouds.
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Lunch – 13h00 to 14h00

14h00-15h00 Discussion.

Close joint NetFAM Workshop

Coffee

15h30 Meeting of COST MC committee (part 1)

Adoption of agenda

Minutes of last meeting

News from the COST Office

Status of Action. Web site, Budget Status, Budget allocation process

STSM status, reports and applications

17h30 Close Meeting of COST MC committee (part 1)

Friday 20 March, 09h00

09h00-13h00 Separate parallel meetings of the four working groups.

Lunch - 13h00 to 14h00

14h00 Meeting of COST MC committee (part 2)

Report of the Working Groups to MC and discussion.

Plans for participation in ISTP (Oct 09) and ISARS (June 2010) conferences.

Time and place of next meeting

AOB

End of meeting (~16h00)