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Initiate the reorganisation and strengthening of
the SRNWP ProgrammeEMN/C27/Doc12C27 took
place the 4-6 April 2006 in Toulouse
SRNWP Programme

• 13th SRNWP Meeting
• 12th of October 2006, Zurich (Switzerland)

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Documents distributed for preparation of the 3rd
phase of the SRNWP Programme and Reactions

• Documents distributed in August 2006
• Programme Proposal DRAFT_1
• Programme Decision DRAFT_1
• Reactions received from
• UGM
• Meteo-France
• SMHI
• HIRLAM-ALADIN
• COSMO
• Preparation of the discussion
• All the reactions considered with the same
  weight, independently of their origin (only ideas
  considered!)

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Aim of this meeting

• Our work We have define the main features of the
  next phase of SRNWP Programme (from 1st Jan.08)
• The main points are
• Aims of the Programme
• Governance of the Programme
• Projects (scientific and operational) associated
  with the Programme
• To finalise in broad lines Aims and Governance
• A dedicated meeting will very probably be
  necessary to define the projects
• To define the organisational procedure in order
  to have the Programme Proposal ready in April
  2007 together with the Proposal(s) for Project(s)
• First step Writing of DRAFT_2 based on the
  decisions of this meeting
• Distribution of DRAFT_2 to the participants in
  November
• To bring discussions to a close, we will possibly
  have to vote. Please only one vote per SRNWP
  Member (per NMS).

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Aims of the new ProgrammeList of the aims (or
goals) of each answerSynthesis
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HIRLAM - ALADIN

• Diffusion of NWP knowledge (main activity of the
  present SRNWP)
• Enhanced scientific cooperation by research
  projects (mandate Vision workshop)
• Enhanced operational cooperation and increased
  interoperability between models (mandate Vision
  workshop)
• Training and education activities in NWP (new!)
• Stronger liaison role with EUMETNET Programmes
  (already active), ECMWF (refused) and the climate
  modeling community (new!)

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COSMO

• Goals must be related to the recommendations of
  the Reading Workshop
• Interoperability issues
• Realisation of the quick wins common plots (has
  started with the WGCEF) model verification
  (Project proposal ready)
• European Multi-model LAM
• COSMO priorities of the HA goals
• Enhanced Operational Cooperation
  (Interoperability)
• Enhanced scientific cooperation through
  scientific projects
• Information exchange (meetings, LC or WG, etc)
• Training and Education

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UGM

• Supports the COSMO comments, but with the
  following differences
• Priorities
• Scientific Cooperation
• Training and Education
• No priority for Operational Cooperation as it
  is not a clear concept.
• Programme of training mission

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Meteo-France

• Meteo-France supports the project of reinforcing
  SRNWP in the spirit of the Vision
• Most current SRNWP activities should continue in
  a future reinforced SRNWP
• New SRNWP activities with strong priority
• Adoption of common formats and rules for the
  input and output between the European NWP systems
  (with specific funding)
• RD of common postprocessing and verification
• RD on multi model LAM ensembles (GLAMEPS could
  be seen as the European contribution to
  TIGGE-LAM)
• OBSNET initiative under the responsibility of
  SRNWP (instrumented sites as NWP benchmarking
  tools)
• European LAM reanalysis (i.e. EURRA Project)
• Planning of observing systems for mesoscale NWP

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SMHI (H-A internal document)

• Increase co-operation in NWP development in
  Europe
• Aim for a pan-European code frame work and one or
  a few European Community models (only 3 models on
  the km-scale)
• To promote operational co-operation
  interoperability, data formats, etc.
• To spread and exchange NWP knowledge in Europe
  SRNWP Workshops, European Conference, LC reports,
  etc
• Interaction with other EUMETNET Programmes not
  so easy (relation SRNWP Consortia)
• Recommendation
• Try to stick to a limited number of tasks and
  aims and make them work well

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Aims of the new ProgrammeList of the aims of
each answerSynthesis
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Diffusion of NWP knowledge

• Accepted by all
• Tools
• SRNWP Workshops, EWGLAM Meetings, SRNWP web site,
  LC or WG Reports, European NWP Conferences
• (To harmonize with the decisions on Governance)

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Enhancement of the scientific cooperation (1)

• Remark It is not always obvious whether a
  proposal has to be classified under scientific
  cooperation or under operational cooperation
• Not always clear distinction between
• Projects that should be financed by the EUMETNET
  Council outside the SRNWP Programme (for EUMETNET
  they are also called Programmes) and normally
  would have a different RM that the one of the
  SRNWP Programme. For submission to Council, they
  need their own Project Proposal and Project
  Decision (can be the same document).
• Projects that should be realised inside the SRNWP
  Programme, directly financed by the NWS or the
  Consortia without interference of the EUMETNET
  Council
• This remark applies equally to the proposal for
  the operational cooperation

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Enhancement of the scientific cooperation (2)

• Accepted by all
• European LAM re-analysis (in coordination with
  ECMWF and ECSN/EUROGRID)
• Common interfacing between dynamics and physics
  in order to facilitate exchange of physical
  packages
• Cloud Resolving Scale (CRS)
• DA at the CRS
• Physical parameterizations suitable for the CRS
• Comprehensive LAM verification with the satellite
  information, particularly METEOSAT 8 (cf. diurnal
  cycle)

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Enhancement of the operational cooperation

• Accepted by all, except UGM (no clear
  definition).
• common data formats for in- and outputs of models
  (e.g. exchange of analyses, of post-processing
  packages). Special funding proposed by
  Meteo-France, also considered as possibility by
  H-A. Goal of the theme Interoperability of the
  Vision.
• interoperability in the coupling between global
  models and the SRNWP LAMs
• adoption or development of common postprocessing,
  verification and intercomparison tools. Goes
  further than the Vision.
• common plots from all the consortia (already
  decided by the forecasters). Quick wins
  proposal of the Vision.
• harmonisation of quality control of observations
• centralized verification and intercomparison
  between the European LAMs (Project Proposal
  ready). Chosen as the early project as
  suggested by the Vision.
• Coupling of the SRNWP models with air chemistry
  models

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Training and Education Activities in NWP

• Proposed by all, but with differences in the
  size. Not always very specific.
• Creation of a WG on education and training in
  Short Range NWP
• sharing educational material on the web
• organization of a yearly SRNWP summer school
• Co-ordination with ECMWF training
• Liaise with the national academia on training
  tools and events
• Guest Researcher Programme stays of one year
  or so
• Programme of Mid-term mission for new staff and
  for exchange of personal between Consortia

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European Multi-model LAM EPS

• Accepted by all
• Development of a large multi-model LAM EPS as the
  European contribution to the THORPEX Project
  TIGGE-LAM
• Fulfil the theme European interactive
  multi-model LAM of the Vision

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Synthesis
Priorities

• Enhancement of the operational cooperation
• Diffusion of NWP knowledge
• Enhancement of the scientific cooperation
• European Multi-model LAM EPS
• Training and Education Activities in NWP

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Governance of the new Programme

• Lead Centres
• SRNWP Workshops
• EWGLAM Meetings
• Advisory Committee
• Other Tools

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Lead Centres (1)

• LC have been created in 1999 to
• organise every 2 years a workshop on their topic
• This function has been well fulfilled
• inform regularly the NMS on the state-of-the-art
  of their topic
• Has been only partially fulfilled (reasons known)
• act as consultant for the NMS in their topic
• This function has never been activated (reasons
  known)
• Alternatives
• Suppression of the LC with no replacement
• Suppression, but discussions how their
  objectives could be reached in an alternative
  manner
• No suppression, but take measures in order that
  LC can fulfil their 3 duties (financial support)
• Replacement of the LC by Working Groups teams of
  scientists from all Consortia working in specific
  areas (cf. COSMO)

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Lead Centres (2)

• If LC are retained or if WG are created,
• how many?
• for which topics?
• Today we have 7 LCs
• High resolution data assimilation
• Non-hydrostatic modelling
• Numerical techniques
• Statistical and dynamical adaptation of model
  results
• High resolution verification
• Soil and surface processes and assimilation of
  surface variables
• Short-range EPS

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SRNWP Workshops

• Today a workshop every 2 years for each of our 7
  topics
• Alternatives for the new SRNWP Programme
• SRNWP Workshops are maintained (all minus one)
• LC are maintained or replaced by WG
• Each LC (respective WG) organises the workshops
  on its theme
• LC are suppressed and not replaced by WG
• Decision on workshops (time and topic) by the
  advisory committee
• Do we keep the two year rule?
• SRNWP Workshops are suppressed (one opinion)
• In order to reduce the number of meetings, LC
  Workshops should be replaced by one annual
  Inter-consortia Conference open to Academy (cf.
  idea European Conference on NWP)

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EWGLAM Meetings

• Have to be maintained annually following the
  Ljubljana format (all agreed)
• Following the Vision recommendation Develop
  better working relations with Academia, the PM
  suggested they alternate every two years with
  European NWP Conferences (similar to the AMS
  NWP Conferences)
• Two positive reactions to this idea
• A suggestion Consider EMS
• PM shall contact the President of the EMS for a
  first exchange of opinion of this topic

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SRNWP Advisory Committee

• All agreed that for an enlarged Programme with
  projects and more activities an advisory body is
  necessary
• Form of the AC
• Each NWS represented
• The NWS finance the Programme
• Large ? less efficient
• Participation centred over the Consortia
• Small ? Efficient
• 2 stages daily management group (small, many
  contacts with PM) and AC with all NWS represented
• ok for a Consortium. Unnecessary complicated for
  SNWP

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Programme Manager and Programme Length

• All agreed for a full time PM with full
  reimbursement of his salary and expenses to the
  Responsible Member (about 90000 a year)
• Duration of the Programme presently 4 years
• Next Programme
• 3, 4, 5, years? or more?