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'.

Finished Special Projects

Principal Investigator	Affiliation	Title	Final report
Dr A Beck, Dr B Ahrens	Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna AUSTRIA	Alpine regional downscaling of reanalysis data using the LAM ALADIN	Finished 2007
Prof Dr M Ehrendorfer	Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics, Universität Innsbruck AUSTRIA	Mesoscale predictability and ensemble prediction	Final Report
Prof Dr M Ehrendorfer	Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik Universität Innsbruck AUSTRIA	Singular vector-based multivariate normal sampling in Ensemble Prediction.	Final Report
Dr C Georges	Institute of Geography, University of Innsbruck AUSTRIA	Analysis of precipitationin the Northern Peruvian Andes	Finishing 2004
Dr L Haimberger	Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik Universität Wien AUSTRIA	Atmospheric general circulation statistics from ERA-40 data	Finishing 2003
Dr L Haimberger	Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik Universität Wien AUSTRIA	Bias estimation of historic in situ upper air data	Finishing 2011
Dr L Haimberger	Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik Universität Wien AUSTRIA	Checking the temporal homogeneity of the ERA-40 observational input and analyses using analyses feedback data	Final Report
Dr L Haimberger	Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics Univ Vienna AUSTRIA	Homogenization of the global radiosonde temperature and wind dataset
G Kirchengast	Institut für Geophysik Astrophysik und Meteorologie Universität Graz AUSTRIA	Climate monitoring by advanced spaceborne sounding and atmospheric modelling	Finishing 2011
Prof Dr M Hantel	Dept of Meteorology and Geophysics, Univ Vienna, AUSTRIA	Convective fluxes from gridscale ECMWF analyses
G Mayr	Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik Universität Innsbruck AUSTRIA	Advanced investigation methods for Foehn (AIM:Foehn)	Finishing 2011
P Seibert	Institute of Meteorology Univerity of Natural Resources & Applied Life AUSTRIA	Modelling of tracer transport (MoTT)	Finishing 2011
Prof Dr R Steinacker	Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik Universität Wien AUSTRIA	4D OMEGA FORM
Prof Dr R Steinacker	Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik Universität Wien AUSTRIA	Mesoscale Alpine Climatology	Finishing 2009
Mrs S Ponsar	MUMM BELGIUM	Data assimilation in high resolution hydrodynamic and ecological forecasts of the North Sea	Finishing 2009
Prof J P van Ypersele Prof Th Fichefet	Institut de l'Astronomie et de Geophysique G. Lemaitre Université catholique de Louvain BELGIUM	Modelling the climate and its evolution at the global and regional scales	Final Report
Dr B Amstrup	Danish Meteorological Institute DENMARK	EUCOS/EUMETSAT data impact studies	Finishing 2009
W May	Danish Meteorological Institute DENMARK	Numerical experimentation with the EC-EARTH system with special focus on the Mediterranean region	Final Report
Dr K Sattler	Danish Meteorological Institute DENMARK	Heavy rain in Europe	Final Report
Dr K Sattler	Danish Meteorological Institute DENMARK	Investigations on LAM ensembles for wind power prediction	Finishing in 2006
S Yang	Danish Meteorological Institute DENMARK	Decadal climate change experiments of EC-EARTH at high resolution and with high top atmosphere	Project cancelled
Dr S Yang Dr B Machenhauer	Danish Meteorological Institute DENMARK	Detection of changing radiative forcing over the recent decades	Finishing in 2003
Dr C Fortelius	Finnish Meteorological Institute FINLAND	BEEOS in BRIDGE (Better Exploitation of existing observations in BRIDGE)	not available
Prof H Järvinen	Finnish Meteorological Institute FINLAND	Stochastic sub-grid scale parametrizations for coupled earth system models	Finishing 2007
Prof G Cautenet	LAMP FRANCE	Chemistry, cloud and radiation interactions in a meteorological model
Dr T Claquin	Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement FRANCE	Are the ECMWF weather predictions improved by accounting for mineral dust?	not available
Dr T de Prada	Mercator Ocean FRANCE	MERCATOR	Finished 2005
C Fischer	CNRM/GMAP Météo-France FRANCE	Investigation of coupling the ALADIN and AROME models to boundary conditions from ECMWF and ERA model data	Finishing 2011
Dr S Herbette	LODYC FRANCE	NAT-FISH: Modelling the seasonal and inter-annual variability of the northwest African upwelling system	Finishing in 2006
Dr T Morel	CERFACS FRANCE	PALM: Universal software for data assimilation	Finishing 2007
Dr A Piacentini	CERFACS FRANCE	Universal software for data assimilation: variational method for global oceans	Finished 2002
P Rogel	CERFACS FRANCE	Seasonal to interannual predictability of a coupled ocean-atmosphere model	Finishing 2011
A Weaver	CERFACS FRANCE	Variational ocean data assimilation with OPA OGCM	Finishing 2011
A Baumgaertner	Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry GERMANY	Solar effects in an Earth-System-Model simulation for 1960-2006
L Bengtsson	Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology GERMANY	Numerical experimentation with a coupled ocean/atmosphere model	Finishing 2009
S Casanova, B Ahrens	University Frankfurt GERMANY	Combination of Seasonal Forecasts by BMA	Final Report
U Cubasch and I Kirchner	Institut für Meteorologie, FU Berlin GERMANY	Investigation of systematic tendency changes and their influence on the general circulation simulated with climate models	Finishing 2011
Dr G Czisch	ISET GERMANY	Evaluation of the global potential of energy towers	Finishing 2009
A Dörnbrack	Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre DLR GERMANY	Influence of non-hydrostatic gravity waves on the stratospheric flow field above Scandinavia	Finishing 2011
A Dörnbrack	Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre DLR GERMANY	Support Tool for HALO Missions	Finishing 2011
J Egger	Department of Theoretical Meteorology University of Munich GERMANY	Land surface-atmosphere interaction	Finishing 2010
H Elbern	Rhenish Institute for Environmental Research, University of Cologne RIU GERMANY	GEMS - Global and regional Earth-system Monitoring using Satellite and in situ data (WP_RAQ_2)	Final Report
V Eyring and B Steil	Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre DLR GERMANY	Impact of anthropogenic emissions on tropospheric chemistry with a special focus on ship emissions	Finishing 2011
Mr J Feichter	MPI Hamburg GERMANY	Climate impact of specific economic sectors	Finishing 2009
A H Fink	Institut für Geophysik und Meteorologie Universität zu Köln GERMANY	Interpretation and calculation of energy budgets	Finishing 2011
L Gantner (was C Kottmeier)	Karlsruhe Institute for Technology GERMANY	Mesoscale modelling using the DWD COSMO-Modell	Final Report
K Gierens	Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre DLR GERMANY	Ice-supersaturation and cirrus clouds	Finishing 2011
Prof Dr G Gravenhorst	Institute of Bioclimatology, University of Göttingen GERMANY	Downscaling of ECMWF seasonal forecast in the tropical region Central Sulawesi, Indonesia using the climate limited area model, CLM of the German Weather Service	Finishing 2007
S Hagemann	Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology GERMANY	Regional downscaling of ERA-40 data and validation of the hydrological cycle	Finishing 2011
K P Hoinka	Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre DLR GERMANY	Climatology of the global tropopause	Finishing 2011
D Jacob	MPI Hamburg GERMANY	Regional ensemble prediction	Finishing 2011
S Jones	Meteorological Institute University of Munich GERMANY	The impact of tropical cyclones on extratropical predictability	Finishing 2011
J H Jungclaus	MPI Hamburg GERMANY	Community simulations of the last Millennium (COMSIMM)	Finishing 2010
C Keil and G C Craig	Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre DLR GERMANY	Ensemble modelling for the improvement of short range quantitative precipitation forecasts	Finishing 2011
Dr W Knorr	Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie GERMANY	Biochemical feedbacks in the climate system	Final Report
U Langematz	FU Berlin GERMANY	Chemistry-climate model simulations for WMO ozone assessment	Finishing 2011
M Latif	Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften Kiel, GERMANY	Seasonal to decadal forecasting with coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation models	Finishing 2011
P Laux	IMK-IFU Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, GERMANY	Statistical analysis of the onset of the rainy season in the Volta Basin (West Africa)	Finishing 2011
B Mayer	Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre DLR GERMANY	Remote sensing of water and ice clouds with Meteosat second generation	Finishing 2011
U Niemeier	MPI Hamburg GERMANY	Climate impact of clouds and aerosols	Finishing 2010
M Pahlow	Ruhr-University Bochum GERMANY	Optimisation of water management by using ensemble forecasts	Cancelled 2009
M Rex	Alfred Wegener Institute GERMANY	Ozone and water vapour transport with the residual circulation	Final Report
A Rinke	Alfred Wegener Institute GERMANY	Sensitivity of HIRHAM	Finishing 2011
Dr B Rockel	GKSS orschungszentrum Institut für Atmosphärenphysik Geesthacht, Germany	Energy and water cycle components in regional forecasts
M Schultz	Forchungszentrum Jülich GERMANY	Global atmospheric chemistry modelling	Final Report
Dr N Spichtinger	University of Munich GERMANY	Validation of trajectory calculations	Finishing in 2006
U Ulbrich and G C Leckebusch	Institut für Meteorologie, FU Berlin GERMANY	Investigation of storms in forecasts, hindcasts and climate model simulations on daily to seasonal and climatological timescales	Finishing 2011
Dr J S von Storch	MPI Hamburg GERMANY	Numerical experimentation with a high-resolution ocean model	Finishing 2007
M Weber	Intsitute of Environmental Physics, University Bremen GERMANY	Chemical and dynamical influences on decadal ozone change	Final Report
V Wirth	Institute for Atmospheric Physics University of Mainz GERMANY	Water vapour in the upper troposphere	Finishing 2011
V Wulfmeyer	Institute of Physics and Meteorology, University of Hoehenheim GERMANY	Real-time assimilation of observation of key prognostic variavles and the development of aerosol operators (RAPTOR)	Finishing 2011
Dr J U Joergensen and Dr C Moehrlen	UCC, IRELAND	HONEYMOON - A high resolution numerical wind energy model for on- and offshore forecasting using ensemble predictions	Final Report
Dr R McGrath	Met Eireann IRELAND	Community Climate Change Consortium for Ireland (C4I)
C Moehrlen, J U Joergensen and M Pahlow	Univ College Cork, Met Eireann/Ruhr Univ Bochum IRELAND	Using ensembles to predict and hydro to balance wind power forecast errors	Finishing 2007
S Wang	Met Eireann IRELAND	Changes in the North Atlantic climate and impacts for Ireland	Finished 2009
Dr M Bonavita and L Torrisi	CNMCA ITALY	EUCOS Observing System Experiment	Finishing 2009
Dr M Bonavita and L Torrisi	CNMCA ITALY	Limited area ensemble Kalman filter	Finishing 2009
L Cavaleri	ISMAR-CNR ITALY	Evaluation of the performance of the ECMWF meteorological model at high resolution	Final Report
Dr L Cavaleri	ISDGM-CNR ITALY	Testing and applications of a third generation wave model in the Mediterranean Sea	not available
Dr P Chessa	SAR, SARDINIA	Local Multi-model Prediction System (LaMPS)	Finishing 2007
P Bergamaschi	JRC/IES/Climate Change Unit ITALY	Inverse modelling of atmospheric CH4 and N2O	Final Report
F Dentener	JRC/IES/ Climate Change Unit ITALY	The linkage of climate and air pollution: simulations with the global 2-way nested model TM5	Finishing 2010
F Dentener	JRC/IES/Climate Change Unit ITALY	Pollution in world regions: Source Receptor calculations with the with the global atmospheric chemistry transport model TM5/	Finishing 2011
A Dosio	JRC/IES/Climate Change Unit ITALY	Coupling a regional climate model to a biogeochemical land-surface model in the study of climate change impacts on the European ecosystems	Finishing 2010
F Kucharski	ICTP ITALY	Dynamical downscaling of seasonal predictions with a regional climate model	Finishing 2011
Dr E Manzini	NGV, ITALY	Middle atmosphere modelling
C Marsigli (was F Di Giuseppe	ARPA-SIM ITALY	Flow dependent Error statistic for satellite data Assimilation in Regional model (FEAR)	Finishing 2011
E Masciadri	Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Florence, ITALY	Forecasting optical turbulence for astronomy applications with the MesoNH mesoscale model coupled with the ECMWF products	Finishing 2009
A Maurizi	ISAC-CNR ITALY	GEMS - Global and regional Earth-system Monitoring using Satellite and in situ data - BOLCHEM (WP_RAQ_4)	Final Report
Dr F Molteni	International Centre for Theoretical Physics Trieste ITALY	Nonlinear aspects of the systematic error of the ECMWF coupled model	report 2003
A Montani and K Mylne	ARPA Emilia-Romagna, ITALY / MetOffice, UK	Limited-area ensemble forecasts of windstorms over Northern Europe	Finishing 2011
A Montani and A Walser	ARPA Emilia-Romagna, ITALY and MeteoSwiss, Zurich SWITZERLAND	Improvement of COSMO limited-area ensemble forecasts	Finishing 2011
T Paccagnella and A Montani & and M Ferri	Servizio Meteorologico Regionale ARPA Emilia-Romagna, ITALY and CNMCA ITALY	Limited area model targeted ensemble prediction system (LAM-TEPS)	Finishing 2011
A Parodi	CIMA, University of Genoa ITALY	High resolution numerical modelling of intense convective rain cell	Finishing 2011
V Pavan	Servizio Idrologico ARPA-SIM ITALY	Seasonal prediction for Italian agriculture (SPIA)	Finishing 2011
L Torrisi and F Marcucci	CNMCA ITALY	Limited area ensemble Kalman filter	Finishing 2011
F Zauli and L Torrisi	CNMCA ITALY	Tuning COSMO-ME to H-SAF requirements	Finishing 2011
Dr Jan Barkmeijer	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Potential for Regime Transitions in North Atlantic Climate	Not available
Dr G Burgers	KNMI NETHERLANDS	OGCM mixed-layer modules and initialization	not available
Dr S S Drijfhout	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Agulhas	report 2003
S Drijfhout (formerly Weber)	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Modelling past greenhouse worlds with EC-EARTH: Understanding past and predicting future responses to high greenhouse gas levels	Finishing 2011
Dr S S Drijfhout	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Water mass pathways in a high-resolution synoptic model	Finishing 2007
Mr H Eskes	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Chemical data-assimilation of satellite observations with TM5	Project started in 2007 ?
Dr G J de Groot	Netherlands Energy Research Foundation (ECN) NETHERLANDS	RECAB	not available
R Haarsma	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Storm tracks in a warmer climate	Finishing 2011
R Haarsma	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Patterns of climate change: coupled modelling activities	Finishing 2010
V Huijnen	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Global reactive gases modelling in GEMS and MACC: Towards an operational assimilation and forecasting system for tropospheric reactive gases	Finishing 2011
Dr H Kelder	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Data assimilation of chemical species as observed by GOME and SCIAMACHY	not available
Dr O Leeuwenburgh	Univ Utrecht NETHERLANDS	Bias and balance in the Ensemble Kalman Filter	Finishing 2007
G J van Oldenborgh, G Burgers	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Advanced ocean data assimilation	project finishes in 2005
Dr A P Siebesma	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of boundary layer clouds	not available
Dr P C Siegmund	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Transport relevant for atmospheric chemistry	not available
B van den Hurk	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Participation in GLACE-2	Finishing 2011
E van Meijgaard	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Multi-annual integrations with the KNMI regional climate model RACMO2	Finishing 2011
E van Meijgaard	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Regional modelling of the Greenland surface mass balance for key episodes in past and future	Finishing 2011
J Onvlee	KNMI NETHERLANDS	The HIRLAM-A project	Finishing 2010
F M Selten	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Climate Change Studies using the IFS system	Finishing 2010
A P Siebesma	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Rain in cumulus	Finishing 2010
T C P van Noije	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Global atmospheric chemistry modelling with EC-EARTH: Understanding past and predicting future tropospheric ozone in a changing climate	Finishing 2011
Dr P van Velthoven	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Chemical reanalyses and sensitivity studies with the chemistry-transport model TM4
M van Weele	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Global chemistry-transport modeling of natural reactive greenhouse gases	Finishing 2010
J de Vries	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Data assimilation over the North Atlantic (DANA)	Finishing 2009
R Benestad	The Norwegian Meteorological Institute, NORWAY	Seasonal Predictability over the Arctic Region – exploring the role of boundary conditions	Finished 2010
S Eckhardt	Norwegian Inst for Air Research NORWAY	FLEXPART transport simulations for the International Polar Year and further model development	Finishing 2011
I-L Frogner	The Norwegian Meteorological Institute NORWAY	NORLAMEPS: Limited Area Ensemble Prediction System for Norway	Finished 2010

I-L Frogner	The Norwegian Meteorological Institute NORWAY	TEPS: Targeted EPS for Norway	Finishing 2011
Prof S Grønås Dr N G Kvamstø	Geophysical Institute University of Bergen NORWAY	Parametrization of clouds in general circulation models	not available
I S A Isaksen	Department of Geophysics University of Oslo NORWAY	Ozone as a climate gas	Finishing 2011
T Iversen	The Norwegian Meteorological Institute NORWAY	GLAMEPS - Grand Limited Area Model Ensemble Prediction System	Finishing 2011
T Iversen, J Kristiansen	The Norwegian Meteorological Institute NORWAY	REGCLIM - Optimal forcing perturbations for the atmosphere	Finishing 2011
R Randriamampianina	The Norwegian Meteorological Institute NORWAY	Tuning of HARMONIE asssimilation and forecast systems	Finishing 2011
G Guedess Soares	Technical University of Lisbon PORTUGAL	HIPOCAS-SPEC	Finishing 2011
J Cuxart Rodamilans	Department of Physics Universitat de les Illes Balears SPAIN	Study of the stably stratified atmospheric boundary layer through Large-Eddy simulations and high resolution mesoscale modelling	Finishing 2011
F J Doblas-Reyes	Institut Catala de Ciencies del Clima SPAIN	Assessment of the limit of initial condition useful skill in interannual climate prediction	Finishing 2011
M A Gaertner	Univ de Castilla-La Mancha SPAIN	Analysis of land surface-atmosphere interactions through mesoscale simulations	Finishing 2011
J Saenz	Department of Applied Physics, University of the Basque Country SPAIN	Mesoscale meteorological reanalysis over the Iberian Pensinsula	Finishing 2011
L Robertson	SMHI SWEDEN	GEMS/MACC – Global and regional Earth-system Monitor using Satellite and in situ data	Finishing 2011
L Magnusson	Stockholm University SWEDEN	New methods for an ensemble prediciton system	Finishing 2009
Dr Per Undén	SMHI SWEDEN	The HIRLAM 5 project	Report 2002
U Lohmann	Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science ETH Zurich SWITZERLAND	Cloud aerosol interactions	Final Report
Dr E Schuepbach	Department of Physical Geography/CABO University of Berne SWITZERLAND	Classification of atmospheric circulation during extreme events in the Alps	not available
T Storelvmo	Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science ETH Zurich SWITZERLAND	Aerosol influence on clouds, precipitation and climate in EC-EARTH	Finishing 2010
L Bengtsson	ESSC, Universty of Reading UK	Predictability studies with emphasis on extra-tropical and tropical storm tracks and their dependence on the global observing systems	Finishing 2011
Prof L Bengtsson	ESSC University of Reading UK	Sensitivity of ERA40 to different observing systems and the determination of the global water cycle	Final Report
K Haines	Environmental Systems Science Centre University of Reading UK	Using data assimilation in a high-resolution ocean model to determine the thermohaline circulation	Finishing 2011
H Hanlon	Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford UK	Attribution of changes in extreme weather risk using large ensembles of climate model simulations	Finishing 2009
Prof B J Hoskins	Department of Meteorology University of Reading U.K.	Moist singular vectors	report 2003
Prof B J Hoskins	Department of Meteorology University of Reading UK	Routine back trajectories
Prof B J Hoskins	Department of Meteorology University of Reading UK	Stochastic physics	Final Report
P Inness	Dept of Meteorology, Univ Reading	Using weather forecasting approaches to understanding the Madden-Julian Oscillation in the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System	Finishing 2011
A Kaiser-Weiss and S Migliorini	Univ Reading UK	Assimilation of geostationary ozone measurements for global ozone monitoring	Final Report
A Kaiser-Weiss	Dept of Meteorology, Univ Reading	Assimilation of trace gas retrievals using quasi-optimal assimilation	Final Report
D S Lee	Manchester Metropolitan University, UK	Determining the relative roles of NOx and CO2 emissions from aviation in climate change	Finishing 2011
J Methven	Dept of Meteorology, Univ Reading	Moist singular vectors and Afrian Easterly waves	Finishing 2011
S Migliorini	Univ Reading UK	GlobMODEL	Finished 2010
Dr H Mussa	Centre for Atmospheric Sci, Uni Cambridge UK	Chemical data assimilation	not available
Prof A O'Neill	DARC, Univ Reading, UK	How good are simulated water vapour distributions in the UTLS region?	Finishing 2009
Prof A O'Neill	DARC, Univ Reading, UK	Assimilation of retrieved products from EOS MLS	Finishing 2009
Prof A O'Neill	DARC, Univ Reading, UK	Use of data assimilation to analyse the impact of gravity-wave drag parametrization on the dynamics and circulation of the IFS model	project cancelled
V I Shrira	Dept of Mathematics Keele University UK	Direct numerical simulation of 2D freak waves	Finishing 2011
J Turner	British Antarctic Survey Natural Environment Research Council UK	Assessment of ECMWF forecasts over the high latitude areas of the Southern Hemisphere	Finishing 2011

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