Presentations - ECMWF/ELDAS Workshop on Land surface Assimilation

Objective

ECMWF and the European Union Project ELDAS (Development of a European Land Data Assimilation System to predict Floods and Droughts) jointly organized a Workshop on Land Surface Assimilation, on 8-11 November 2004 at ECMWF, Reading, UK. This is the closing workshop for ELDAS.

Below are the presentation given at the workshop.

Session 1: Introduction
Bart van den Hurk Introduction to ELDAS
Alan K. Betts Coupling of land-surface, boundary layer and cloud fields
Session 2: Forcing
Franz Rubel Daily and 3-hourly quantitative precipitation estimation for ELDAS
Peter Bauer Continental precipitation estimation from space
Bart van den Hurk ELDAS radiation and heating rates from METEOSAT
Isabel Trigo The use of remote sensing data to improve the modelling of skin temperature
Session 3: Methods
Matt Rodell NASA/NOAA's Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS): Recent Results and Future Plans
Werner Wergen Variational soil assimilation at DWD
Gianpaolo Balsamo A simplified variational analysis scheme for soil moisture: Developments at Météo-France and MSC
Janneke Ettema The ECMWF soil data assimilation
Matthias Drusch Assimilation of snow
Session 4: Applications
Rolf Reichle Land data assimilation and seasonal climate prediction
Allard de Wit Using ELDAS results in the European Crop Growth Monitoring Experiment
Ernesto Rodriguez Significance of ELDAS products for NWP
Eleanor Blyth and Victoria Bell The use of soil moisture in hydrological forecast models
Session 5: Validation
Ken Mitchell (and Dag Lohmann) The North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS): Purpose, approach, results, lessons, validation and plans
Cor Jacobs Validation of ELDAS products
Phil Graham Validation at catchment scale
Paul Dirmeyer Continental-global scale validation and evaluation of land surface models
Session 6: Carbon cycle and landuse
Jean-Christophe Calvet The GEOLAND project: Observatory of Natural Carbon fluxes
Jean-Louis Champeaux ECOCLIMAP database: New developments
Wolfgang Knorr Assimilation of satellite-derived fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (FAPAR)