Tuesday 15 June 2010

Erland Källén and
Lars-Peter Riishojgaard

Welcome

T N Krishnamurti

Some observational and forecast issues, on different space time scales, for clouds using CLOUDSAT/CALIPSO/ISCCP and model ensemble

George Ohring and
Peter Bauer

Recommendations of 2005 workshop and objectives of current workshop

Session 1 Cloud/precipitation assimilation at NWP centres
Chair: Greg Tripoli

Peter Bauer

Status of cloud and rain assimilation at ECMWF

Lars-Peter Riishojgaard

Clouds and precipitation data in the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation

Richard Renshaw

Cloud and precipitation assimilation at the Met Office

Masahiro Kazumori

Operational status and recent developments on cloud and precipitation assimilation at JMA

Sylvain Heilliette

Assimilation of cloud-affected infrared radiances at Environment Canada

Thomas Auligné and Xiang-Yu Huang

Assimilation of cloud/precipitation data at regional scales

Vincent Guidard and Lydie Lavanant

Cloudy infrared radiances: status of assimilation at Météo-France and intercomparison exercise

Session 2 Satellite observation of clouds and precipitation
Chair: Fuzhong Weng

Christian Kummerow

Cloud and Rainfall observations using microwave radiometer data and a-priori constraints

Robin Hogan

Radar and lidar observations from space

Arthur Hou

Precipitation estimation using combined active/passive sensor information within the GPM framework

Session 3 Radiative transfer modelling in presence of clouds/precipitation
Chair: Min-Jeong Kim

Thomas Greenwald

Solar/IR forward modeling in direct cloud-affected radiance assimilation: status and prospects

Ralf Bennartz

Microwave radiative transfer modeling of clouds and precipitation

Fuzhong Weng

Advances in CRTM surface emissivity models and database

Wednesday 16 June 2010

Session 4 Modeling of clouds and precipitation Chair: Ron Errico

Peter Yau

Representing cloud and precipitation in NWP models in Canada

Gregory J. Tripoli

The guiding principles, realities and future of cloud resolving models

Richard Forbes

Future directions for parametrization of cloud and precipitation microphysics

Philippe Lopez

Linearized physics: Progress and issues

Session 5 Specific data assimilation issues
Chair: Lars-Peter Riishojgaard

Ron Errico

Review of cloud and precipitation data assimilation issues

Elias Hólm

Use of cloud condensate in the background error formulation

Thibaut Montmerle

Modelling of background error covariances for the analysis of clouds and precipitation: challenges and possible strategies

Alan Geer

All-sky observations: errors, biases, representativeness, linearity and gaussianity

Niels Bormann and Carla Cardinali

Observation-space diagnostics for microwave imager radiances

Marion Mittermaier

Observations use in data assimilation and verification: Similar but not the same

Thursday 17 June 2010