HIRLAM / AAA workshop on surface assimilation
Hungarian Meteorological Service 12-14 November 2007

PROGRAMME

  Monday,  12 November 2007
9:00 Opening, Practical information
  Session 1:  CANARI optimal interpolation Chair: Nils Gustafsson
9:15 – 10:30 Francois Bouyssel France Scientific overview of CANARI analysis software (Observations, Quality controls, Optimal Interpolation, Background and Observation error statistics, Namelist parameters) (ppt) (pdf)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee / Tea Break
11:00 – 12:15 Francois Bouyssel France Presentation of surface analyses (temperature and soil moisture over continental area, sea surface temperature, sea ice cover, snow) (Past evolutions, Tunings, Strengths and weaknesses) (ppt) (pdf)
12:15 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30 Gergely Boloni (pdf) and Alena Trojakova Hungary, Czech Republic CANARI practical exercises I
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee / Tea Break
16:00 – 17:30 Gergely Boloni and Alena Trojakova (pdf) Hungary, Czech Republic CANARI practical exercises II
Related documentation CANARI (pdf)
Observation usage (pdf)
  Tuesday,  13 November 2007
  Session 2:  Surface assimilation planned for SURFEX Chair: Stefan Gollvik
9:00 – 10:15 Jean-Francois Mahfouf France A new land data assimilation system for AAA: justification and description (pdf)
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee / Tea Break
10:45 – 12:15 Jean-Francois Mahfouf France A new land data assimilation system for AAA: preliminary results (pdf)
Jean-Francois Mahfouf France Soil analysis code (tar.gz)
12:15 – 14:00 Lunch Break
  Session 3:  Surface assimilation in HIRLAM Chair: Francois Bouyssel
14:00 – 14:20 Nils Gustafsson Sweden Overview of the present HIRLAM surface assimilation and some views on the future coupling between surface and upper air assimilations  (ppt) (pdf)
14:20 – 14:40 Mariken Homleid Norway Assimilation of sea-surface temperature and sea ice fraction in HIRLAM  (ppt) (pdf)
14:40 – 15:00 Tomas Landelius Sweden Wavelets as a framework for describing inhomogenity and anisotropy (ppt) (pdf)
15:00 – 15:15 Laura Rontu Finland Experience of running HIRLAM on a glacier (pdf)
15:15 – 15:40 Coffee / Tea Break
  Session 4:  Discussions, planning issues Chair: Jean-Francois Mahfouf
15:40 – 17:00 Conclusions, identification of existing problems
  Wednesday,  14 November 2007
9:00 – 10:15 Planning discussions (roadmap with schedules)
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee / Tea Break
10:30 – 12:00 Planning discussions (roadmap with schedules)
Notes on planning discussions (ppt) (draft by Jean-Francois Mahfouf and Gergely Bölöni)
Document of SURFEX workshop 2007 WG3 on observation usage (pdf) (draft by Jean-Francois Mahfouf and Nils Gustafsson)
12:00 Lunch
List of workshop participants