Workshop Programme
Monday, 14 July 2008
Opening and Introduction
09.00–09.45 – Registration
09.45–10.00 – Opening of the meeting – Lev Karlin,
Rector of RSHU
10.00–10.15 – Info about practical arrangements –
Tatiana Ermakova (RSHU)
10.15 - 10.45 – "HIRLAM
strategy and connection with ACT" – Sander
Tijm (KNMI)
10.45–11.15 – Coffee break
Session: Enviro-HIRLAM – as a Basis for a New HIRLAM Chemistry Branch
chaired by Rein Room (University of Tartu) and Edward Podgaiskiy
(RSHU)
11.15–11.45 – "On-line
integrated Enviro-HIRLAM system: strategy, current status, and further
development" – Alexander Baklanov
(DMI)
11.45–12.15 – "Developments
and tests of a new heterogeneous chemical mechanism Chem-NWP implemented
in Enviro-HIRLAM" – Allan Gross
(DMI)
12.15–12.45 – "On
the importance of urban-aerosol-meteorology feedbacks in pollutant concentrations" –
Ulrik Korsholm (by Allan Gross) (DMI)
12.45–13.15 – "On the importance
of urbanization in operational on-line forecasting" – Alexander Mahura (DMI)
13.15–14.30 – Lunch break
Session: Posters
chaired by Sergey Smyshlyaev (RSHU) and Edward Podgaiskiy
(RSHU)
14.30–15.45 – Short oral presentations of posters
by participants (max 5 minutes per poster)
15.45–16.00 – Coffee break
16.00–18.00 – Poster
Session
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Section: Other aspects of NWP and ACTM modelling
chaired by William Stockwell (Howard University) and Edward
Podgaiskiy (RSHU)
09.30–10.00 – "Recent
and future changes in HIRLAM physics and their impact on atmospheric chemistry
transport modelling" – Sander Tijm
(KNMI)
10.00–10.30 – "Chemical
solver benchmark testing" – Sergey Smyshlyaev
(RSHU)
10.30–11.00 – "Modeling
atmospheric chemistry and the effect of emissions from the biosphere on
air pollution and climate" – William Stockwell
(Howard University)
11.00–11.30 – Coffee break
11.30–12.00 – "On
influence of NWP driver and NWP-CTM interface on dispersion ensembles"
– Mikhail Sofiev (FMI)
12.00–12.30 – "Large
moisture in the upper troposphere: a mystery or a lack of understanding
of cirrus microphysics" – Anatoli Bogdan
(University of Helsinki)
13.00–14.00 – Lunch break
12.30–15.00 – Round Table : Initiating the HIRLAM Chemistry Branch
– working plans
chaired by Alexander Baklanov (DMI), Sander Tijm (KNMI),
and Edward Podgaiskiy (RSHU)
Definition of the discussion topics with brief intro (5-10 minutes)
to start discussions by Sander Tijm (HIRLAM, KNMI), Alexander
Baklanov (DMI, University of Copenhagen), Rein Room (University
of Tartu), Mikhail Sofiev (FMI), Sergey Smyshlyaev (RSHU)
and other participants in order to outline working plans with contributions
of groups and collaboration, build a joint strategy, recommendations and
requirements, etc.
15.00 – Closure of the meeting