SRNWP LS-ET Working day

On the 5th of September 2011 ECMWF will host a Short Range Numerical Weather Prediction consortium (SRNWP), Land Surface Expert Team (LS-ET) working-day at ECMWF. The objective is to review land surface recent advances in Europe both on land modelling and on land data assimilation aspects.

Programme

10:00	Introduction (Jean-François Mahfouf, MF, LS-ET Coordinator)
10:10	Presentation of COSMO activities (Martin Lange, DWD)
10:40	Presentation of ALADIN activities (Rafiq Hamdi, MF)
11:10	Coffee break
11:30	Presentation of ALADIN/LACE activities (Jean-François Mahfouf, MF)
12:00	Presentation of HIRLAM activities (Laura Rontu, FMI)
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Presentation of MetOffice activities ( Martin Best (UKMO) Gabriel Rooney UKMO)
14:00	Presentation of ECMWF LSM activities (Gianapolo Balsamo/Souhail Boussetta, ECMWF)
14:30	Presentations of ECMWF LDAS activities
	(Patricia de Rosnay, ECMWF)
	(Clément Albergel, ECMWF)
	(Joaquin Munoz-Sabater, ECMWF)
15:00	Tea break
15:30	Discussion on ongoing activities (COLOBOC database, lake database, SRNWP workplan, and 2011 review talk)
16:30	End of the meeting

Organisers and contact information

The meeting organisers are Jean-François Mahfouf  (Météo-France) and Patricia de Rosnay and Gianpaolo Balsamo (ECMWF),