Monday 19 June 2006

Experience and plans of reanalysis centres

Sakari Uppala (ECMWF)
From ERA-15 to ERA-40 and ERA-Interim

Kazutoshi Onogi (JMA)
JRA-25 and plans

Michele Rienecker (GMAO)
MERRA and activities for atmospheric reanalyses in the US

Status and needs for reanalysis: user views

Kevin Trenberth (NCAR)
Status and needs for reanalysis - the international context

Simon Tett (Met Office)
Validation of climate models

Brian Hoskins (Univ Reading)
Dynamical-process studies

Beatriz Monge-Sanz (Univ Leeds)
Chemical transport modelling

Christoph Schär (ETH)
Land surface processes

Tuesday 20 June 2006

David Bromwich (BPRC)
An assessment of contemporary global reanalyses in the polar regions

Eric Martin (Météo-France)
Applications in mountain areas

Michele Rienecker (GMAO)
Ocean-model needs from re-analyses

Developments in data assimilation for reanalysis

Lennart Bengtsson (ESSC)
Data assimilation requirements for climate reanalysis

Mike Fisher (ECMWF)
Optimizing data assimilation for reanalysis

Yannick Trémolet (ECMWF)
Accounting for model biases in data assimilation

Dick Dee (ECMWF)
Adaptive bias correction of radiances

Per Kållberg (ECMWF/SMHI)
The hydrological cycle

Anton Beljaars (ECMWF)
Surface and boundary layer schemes

Pedro Viterbo (IM, Portugal)
Land-surface data assimilation systems

Jean Bidlot (ECMWF)
Ocean wave analysis

Adrian Simmons (ECMWF)
Capturing trends and low-frequency variations

Wednesday 21 June 2006

Gil Compo (CDC)
Ensemble Kalman Filter analysis, and its application to reanalysis using only surface-pressure observations

Jean-Noël Thépaut (ECMWF)
Assimilating only surface-pressure observations in 3- and 4D-Var, and other observing-system impact studies

Observations and boundary forcing fields

Sakari Uppala (ECMWF)
Observational requirements for future reanalyses

Leo van de Berg (EUMETSAT)
Reprocessed satellite data products for assimilation and validation

Philip Brohan (Met Office)
Development of SST and sea-ice datasets

Leopold Haimberger (Univ Vienna)
Homogenization of radiosonde data

Mark McCarthy (Met Office)
Homogenization of HIRS/SSU/VTPR radiances

Other aspects

Jörg Schulz (DWD)
The Climate Monitoring SAF

Adrian Simmons (ECMWF)
The potential for EURRA, a European Regional Reanalysis

Discussion session:

• User needs for reanalysis
• Observation datasets and boundary forcing fields
• Homogenization of data
• Requirements for the data assimilation system