Special Projects are 'experiments or investigations of a scientific or technical nature, undertaken by one or more Member States, likely to be of interest to the general scientific community'. The table below list the projects that are currently active.

projects starting in 2012
projects started in 2011
projects started in 2010

Projects starting in 2012

Principal Investigator	Title	Request for resources	Report
Principal Investigator	Title	Request for resources	2012	2013	2014	Final
L Haimberger Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik, Universität Wien AUSTRIA	Homogenization and uncertainty estimation of historic in situ upper air data
S Serafin Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik, Universität Wien AUSTRIA	Numerical modelling of boundary layer processes over complex terrain
A Deckmyn Royal Meteorological Institue BELGIUM	Boundary conditions for ALADIN, ALARO and AROME based on IFS, ECMWF EPS and ERA-Interim data
A Baklanov Danish Meteorological Institute DENMARK	EnvrioChemistry on ECMWF
P Ollinaho Finnish Meteorological Instiute FINLAND	Model parameter perturbations in ensemble prediction
F Bouttier LMD FRANCE	Continental winter weather prediction with the AROME ensemble prediction system
G Lapeyre LMD FRANCE	Using Lyapunov covariant modes for atmospheric predictability
A Weaver CERFACS FRANCE	Ensemble variational data assimilation with NEMOVAR
D Anwender Karlsruhe Institute of Technology GERMANY	Impact of blocking and tropical-extratropical interactions on predictability in the Atlantic-European Sector
H-S Bauer & V Wulfmeyer Institute of Physics and Meteorology University of Hohenheim GERMANY	Validation and improvement of high-impact weather process understanding in Europe with the aid of high-resolution WRF simulations and sophisticated data assimilation (VALPUDA)
U Cubasch and I Kirchner Institut für Meteorologie, FU Berlin GERMANY	Analysis of the coupling between the ocean and atmosphere large scale circulation regimes from annual to decadal time scales
A Dörnbrack Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre DLR GERMANY	Mission Support System for HALO research flights
A Dörnbrack Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre DLR GERMANY	Source Spectra for Convectively Generated Gravity Waves – Adaptive Numerical Simulations
H Elbern Rhenish Institute for Environmental Research, University of Cologne RIU GERMANY	Monitoring Atmospheric Climate and Composition – Interim Implementation (MACC-II)
L Gantner and N Kalthoff Karlsruhe Institute for Technology GERMANY	Convection-permitting ensemble simulations for West Africa based on different soil moisture fields
K Gierens Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre DLR GERMANY	The impact of fluctuations of temperature, humidity and wind on cirrus clouds
K P Hoinka Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre DLR GERMANY	The global circulation in various coordinate systems
T Jung AWI GERMANY	The global impact of explicitly resolving small-scale processes: A model study with the finite element sea ice-ocean model FESOM
U Langematz FU Berlin GERMANY	Simulations with an Atmosphere-Ocean-Chemistry-Climate Model for the development of a decadal climate prediction
O Stein Forschungszentrum Jülich GERMANY	Global Atmospheric Chemistry Modelling
L Bertotti ISMAR-CNR ITALY	Effect of rain on the growth and evolution of sea waves
A Montani, D Majewski and P Steiner ARPA-SIMC, DWD, MeteoSwiss ITALY/GERMANY/ SWITZERLAND	Implementation of a limited-area ensemble prediction system for Sochi Olympic Games
A Montani and L Torrisi ARPA-CIMC & CNMCA, ITALY	Experimentation of different strategies to generate a limited-area ensemble system over the Mediterranean region
V Pavan and A Buzzi ARPA-SIMC & ISAC-CNR ITALY	Multi Model Monthly Ensemble
L Torrisi and F Marcucci CNMCA ITALY	Data Assimilation and Short-Range Forecast with a Limited Area Ensemble Kalman Filter
J J Attema KNMI NETHERLANDS	Evaluation of model precipitation for the current climate when using imperfect (GCM) boundaries
V Huijnen KNMI NETHERLANDS	Inline chemistry for reactive trace gases within IFS
B van den Hurk KNMI NETHERLANDS	Land use change in the 21st century
E van Meijgaard KNMI NETHERLANDS	Contribution of the great ice sheets to sea level rise: assessments with a polar regional climate model
T C P van Noije KNMI NETHERLANDS	Modelling interactions between atmospheric composition and climate changes with the Earth system model EC-Earth
W T M Verkley KNMI NETHERLANDS	Implementation and validation of radar data-assimilation in the HARMONIE mesoscale weather prediction model
J E Williams KNMI NETHERLANDS	Investigation of aerosol feedbacks on decadal timescales
N Kristiansen Norwegian Inst for Air Research NORWAY	FLEXPART transport simulations of volcanic ash clouds and gas tracer for the Norwegian Community Earth System model
Inger-Lise Frogner The Norwegian Meteorological Institute, NORWAY	High-resolution ensemble forecasts
T Iversen The Norwegian Meteorological Institute NORWAY	Hirlam-Aladin Probabilistic Systems
J Cuxart Rodamilans Department of Physics Universitat de les Illes Balears SPAIN	Atmospheric Boundary Layer processes in Complex Terrain
F J Doblas-Reyes Institut Catala de Ciencies del Clima SPAIN	Seasonal climate forecast quality with EC-Earth: role of initialization of stochastic physics
H Koernich Stockholm University SWEDEN	Aeolus' impact esimation for different sampling scenarios using EDA experiments
M Böttcher and H Joos ETZ Zurich SWITZERLAND	Diabatic effects in mid-latitude weather systems
H Cloke King's College London WC2R 2LS	IFS water cycle verification using river discharge observations
Gregor C. Leckebusch School of Geography, Univ. Birmingham	Investigation of large scale precursor conditions for extreme cyclone development in the extra-tropics
T Palmer Department of Physics Oxford University	Representing uncertainty in ocean observations and the ocean model for extended-range ensemble prediction
T Palmer Department of Physics Oxford University	Representing uncertainty in weather and climate prediction
V I Shrira Dept of Mathematics Keele University UK	New kinetic equations and their modelling for wind wave forecasting
P Bergamaschi JRC/IES/Climate Change Unit ITALY	Global and Regional Inverse Modeling of Atmospheric CH4 and N2O
F Dentener JRC ITALY	Pollution in world regions: Source Receptor calculations with the global atmospheric chemistry transport model TM5

Projects started in 2011

Principal Investigator	Title	Request for resources	Report
Principal Investigator	Title	Request for resources	2011	2012	2013	Final
J Chanut Mercator Océan FRANCE	High resolution ocean modelling over Iberian, Biscay and Irish Seas
G Garric Mercator Océan FRANCE	The freshwater representation in the Mercator Ocean global ocean reanalysis
V Marecal CNRM/GAME Météo-France FRANCE	Modelling the impact on atmospheric chemistry of very short-lived species and volcanic emissions of halogens
G Craig LMU- Fakultät für Physik GERMANY	Large-scale and local control of severe weather: towards adaptive ensemble forecasting
K Schulz Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität München GERMANY	Statistical Downscaling of ERAinterim data using spatial distributed land surface characteristics and novel tools from machine learning and pattern recognition for hydrological applications
E Masciadri INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri ITALY	Optical turbulence modelling for astronomical applications: towards the Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs)
R Haarsma KNMI NETHERLANDS	Decadal Predictions
W Hazeleger KNMI NETHERLANDS	EC-EARTH: developing a European Earth System model based on ECMWF modelling systems
J Onvlee KNMI NETHERLANDS	The HIRLAM-B project
F M Selten KNMI NETHERLANDS	The role of clouds in model bias and climate sensitivity
M Gauss The Norwegian Meteorological Institute, NORWAY	Meteorological data for EMEP
P Undén SMHI SWEDEN	European Regional Re-analysis for monitoring and observations
A Dosio JRC/IES/Climate Change Unit ITALY	Climate change impacts on the European ecosystems and assessment of forest fires risk

Projects started in 2010

Principal Investigator	Title	Request for resources	Report
Principal Investigator	Title	Request for resources	2010	2011	2012	Final
C Marsigli ARPA-SIMC ITALY	Testing the impact of model perturbations applied to the COSMO model at a convection-permitting scale over Italy
F Kucharski ICTP ITALY	Interactions between the Atlantic Ocean, African monsoon, the Indian and Pacific Oceans using the EC-Earth and IFS modelling systems
A Tompkins ICTP ITALY	Use and value of ECMWF short-range and seasonal forecast products for developing countries in terms of end-user impact variables

06.02.2012

Special Projects