Agenda for the NetFAM working days on surface and soil data assimilation for the HARMONIE/ALADIN forecasting system
Monday 16 March in meeting room VIA
10.00 – 11.45
Session 1: Status of ALADIN/HARMONIE with regard to the surface and the soil
10.00 – 10.45
Jean-Francois Mahfouf - Strategies for introduction of SURFEX,
including data assimilation, in ALADIN and AROME. Joint HIRLAM/ALADIN
plans.
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10.45 – 11.00 Discussion
11.00 –
11.30 Ulf Andrae - Status of the SMHI HARMONIE systems with
particular emphasis on the surface and the soil and on GL conversions
from ECMWF/HIRLAM to HARMONIE
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11.30 – 11.45 Discussion
11.45 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 – 15.00
Session 2: Discuss and start to develop techniques for a proper conversion of soil and surface variables in the ECMWF model to the soil and surface and soil variables in HARMONIE/SURFEX model (ISBA to start with).
13.00 –
13.30 Roger Randriamampianina and Mariken Homleid – Validation of
a trial to make correct conversions of ECMWF soil model variables to
the HARMONIE ones.
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13.30 – 13.45 Discussion
13.45 –
14.15 Jean-Francois Mahfouf – Some thoughts on a proper
(flux-consistent) conversion of ECMWF soil model variables to the
SURFEX ones.
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13.45 –
14.15 Jean-Francois Mahfouf on behalf of Patrick LeMoigne – Soil ice
initialization in SURFEX
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14.15 – 14.30 Discussion
14.30 – 15.00 Formation of a subgroup (rapporteur J.-M. Mahfouf) to design algorithms for a proper conversion of soil and surface variables from the ECMWF/HIRLAM ones to the HARMONIE/SURFEX ones
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee
15.30 – 16.15
Session 3: Learn the CANARI coding structure in order for HIRLAM staff to make real contributions in the field of land soil temperature and moisture, sst, sea ice, lake and snow assimilation.
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16.15
Francoise Taillefer – Overview of the CANARI data assimilation,
methods and computer code
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16.15 – 16.30 Discussion / Break
Session 4: Validate the present HARMONIE surface and soil assimilation based on CANARI to make certain that everything is carried out correctly.
16.30 –
16.50 Maria Diez – Validation of the CANARI 2m temp and humidity
analysis and the OI soil variable assimilation.
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16.50 – 17.00 Discussion
17.00 – 17.20 Mariken
Homleid – Validation and improvement of the CANARI SST and sea ice
assimilation, with some comments also on lake data assimilation
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17.20 – 17.30 Discussion
Tuesday 17 March
09.00 – 10.30 Work in subgroups in meeting rooms VIA and met.no
Subgroup 1 on soil/surface variable conversion (Rapporteur J.-F. Mahfouf)
Subgroup 2 on CANARI development (Rapporteur Mariken Homleid)
Subgroup 3 on Summer time convection CIS (Rapporteur to be arranged later during the week))
Subgroup 4 on Observations for HARMONIE 3D-Var (Rapporteur Magnus Lindskog)
Note: Subgroup 3-4 have subjects outside the soil/surface working week)
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee
11.00 - 12.00 Continued work in subgroups
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
Session 5: Report on progress and make a detailed plan for HIRLAM (and ALADIN) staff contributions in HARMONIE/ALADIN surface and soil assimilation (using CANARI and SURFEX as the framework) in meeting room VIA
13.00 – 13.30
Jean-Francois Mahfouf - The simplified EKF for soil data
assimilation
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13.40 – 13.50 Elena Bojarova,
Nils Gustafsson (based on Han The): An adaptive UKF as an alternative to
simplified EKF
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13.50 – 14.20
Sam-Erik Walker/William Lahoz: NILU EnsKF ideas for soil assimilation
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14.20 – 14.35
Suleiman Mostamandi – A literature review on snow information data
assimilation
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14.35 – 15.00 Coffee
15.00
– 15.15 Nils Gustafsson - Naïve ideas on Lake data assimilation
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15.15 -
15.35 Jure Cedilnik Analysis of the LandSAF albedo product for NWP
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15.35 – 16.00 Discussion
16.00 – 17.00 Practical exercise – Installation of SURFEX EKF in meeting room Castellanus
- 18.00 Continued work in subgroups
Thursday 19 March
13.00 – 16.00
Session 6: Hands-on exercise in soil data assimilation with SURFEX including EKF and OI (lead by J.-F. Mahfouf) in meeting room Castellanus
16.00 – 18.00 Continued work in sub-groups
Friday 20 March
Final session in meeting room VIA
09.00 – 10.00 Reports from sub-groups including discussions
10.00 – 11.30 Drafting of a revised HIRLAM/ALADIN research plan for surface and soil assimilation