3rd ACCORD All Staff Workshop, 27-31 March 2023, Tallinn & hybrid

Article published on 26 October 2022

last modification on 29 July 2023

by pottier

At the kind invitation of the Estonian Environment Agency, the 3rd ACCORD All Staff Workshop was organised as an hybrid event over 5 full days, from Monday 27 to Friday 31 March 2023, in Tallinn (Estonia) in the conference rooms at the Tallinn Nordic Hotel Forum - Tallinna südames.

The ASW did run smoothly: WARM CONGRATULATIONS to the Estonian hosts

198 registered participants of which 90 on site,
in addition 32 remote participants just popped up without registering,
65 to 95 remote participants during the sessions,
8 sessions plus the opening & closing sessions, and 3 side-meetings,
78 speakers including 19 poster presenters,
video-recording: 30 hours. |
A big THANK YOU to the participants, in-situ or remotely, who made this All Staff Workshop a real success.
And a big PERSONAL THANK YOU from the 1st CSS ACCORD for all the touching attentions on the occasion of the announcement of her upcoming departure (see photos).

Agenda and list of participants, updated on 27 March

Please pay attention to the sessions times indicated in the agenda. The times are the local times in Tallinn (UTC+3, Eastern European Summer Time (EEST). Most countries change for summer time on 26 March 2023.
For many partners using CEST, the local times are one hour earlier (when the session starts at 09:30 in Tallinn, it is 08:30 CEST).

Link to side-meeting room (Thursday afternoon): https://bluejeans.com/102988347/2213

Guidelines for a soft hybrid ASW: for speakers, for posters, for chairs, for participants

Recordings

https://bluejeans.com/s/TePp65aoAfA

Monday 27 March: Opening session (Chapter 1), Dynamics session (Chapter 2), Surface session (beg. Chapter 3), surface session (cont.) and posters introduction session (Chapters 4 & 5) :
Tuesday 28 March: MQAA session (Chapters 6 & 7), EPS (Chapters 8 & 9);
Wednesday 29 March: Code & System session (Chapters 10, 11 & 12), Data Assimilation session (Chapters 13 & 14);

https://bluejeans.com/s/Br196aVhDeo

Thursday 30 March: Applications session (Chapter 1), Physics session - 1st part (Chapters 2 & 3);
Friday 31 March: Physics session - 2nd part (Chapters 4 & 5), Closing session (Chapter 6).

Exchanges in bj chat

Sessions and side-meetings

Plenary opening session. Chair: Ivar Ansper
- Opening of the meeting and welcome speech by the DG of ESTEA, Mr Taimar Ala
- Practical information provided by EEA organizers
- FISCHER Claude and POTTIER Patricia: PM’s talk (&CSS)
- SZINTAI Balázs: Status and future of the C-SRNWP module of EUMETNET
Plenary session: Dynamics and time-steping. Chair: Radmila Brozkova co-chair Ludovic Auger
- SMOLIKOVA Petra: LACE - Advances in dynamics
- CLANCY Colm: Testing Very High Resolution HARMONIE-AROME
Plenary Surface session. Chair: Ekaterina Kurzeneva co-chair Rafiq Hamdi
- SAMUELSSON Patrick: Overview of ACCORD surface activities
- TOTH Helga: SEKF Surface Assimilation in Hungary
- BATRAK Yurii: Sea ice in the CARRA reanalyses
- MARIMBORDES Sophie: Towards an ensemble approach to surface analysis for the NWP model AROME
- NIELSEN Kristian Pagh: Forecasting solar PV yield
- LEBEAUPIN BROSSIER Cindy: The AROBASE project: Towards a kilometer-scale AROME-based multi-coupled modeling and forecasting system
Posters introduction. Chair: Javier Calvo
Coffee break and poster viewing
LTM meeting
Plenary session : MQAA. Chair: Christoph Wittmann co-chair Joël Stein
- SINGLETON Andrew: Fractions Skill Score for ensembles with harp
- WHELAN Eoin: Verification of early common UWC-W forecasts
- STEIN Joel: Use of the neighborhood Brier divergence for ensemble forecasts verification
- TASCU Simona: Verification activities in RC-LACE
- SUZAT Florian: SCOOPS prototype : scores using OOPS screenings
- FORTELIUS Carl: Organizing user-developer interaction in ACCORD
- TÓTH Boglárka: Verification results of AROME-EDA winter experiment
Plenary session : E.P.S. Chair: Ghislain Faure co-chair Martin Bellus
- FEDDERSEN Henrik: Overview of EPS activities in ACCORD
- WASTL Clemens: EPS activities in LACE
- FROGNER Inger-Lise: HarmonEPS development
- NUISSIER Olivier (talk given by FAURE Ghislain): A dedicated convection- permitting ensemble in the operational NWP systems at Météo-France for the tropics
- FANNON James: Single precision SPP experiments with HARMONIE-AROME
- ALAOUI Badreddine: Analog Ensemble Forecasting System for Low-Visibility Conditions over the Main Airports of Morocco
Side meeting: VHR
Plenary session : Code & System. Chair: Niko Sokka co-chair Yelis Cengiz
- SANTOS Daniel: Moving towards a more common and transparent environment for ACCORD systems
- STAPPERS Roel: Experiences and workflows in Github for Harmonie
- MARY Alexandre: Cycles and source code management
- MARGUINAUD Philippe: Porting ARPEGE physics to accelerators: first results
Plenary session : Code & System (cont.). Chair: Piet Termonia co-chair Neva Pristov
- DEGRAUWE Daan: Status of code refactoring and GPU adataption
- TUDOR Martina: ALARO CSC, refactoring, testing
- ANDRAE Ulf: Destination Earth On Demand Extremes workflow
- EL KHATIB Ryad: Perspectives on Systems and Retrospective on People
Plenary session : Data Assimilation. Chair: Benedikt Strajnar co-chair Wafa Khalfaoui
- THORSTEINSSON Sigurdur: Variational bias correction of surface pressure observations from ships
- MILE Mate: Exploring a microwave radiance footprint operator in data assimilation systems over high-latitude domains
- WEIDLE Florian: Assimilation of train-based ZTD observations in AROME-RUC
- DIEZ Maria: Operational use of SEVIRI and other satellite enhancements at AEMET
- VOGT Valérie: Implementation of 3DEnVar with OOPS
- GEIJO Carlos: Exploration of Upper-Air DA at Sub-Hourly Cycling Frequency with the HARMONIE-AROME System
- STRAJNAR Benedikt: Data assimilation activities in RC LACE
- SMERKOL Peter: Validation of torus mapping method for dealiasing Doppler weather radar velocities
Plenary session : Applications. Chair: Laura Rontu co-chair Matthieu Plu
- PLU Matthieu: The Meteo-France 48t1 e-suite: summary of content and performance
- YANG Xiaohua: Operational on-demand VHR weather forecasts
- RANDRIAMAMPIANINA Roger: Destination Earth On-Demand Extremes Digital Twin
- THEEUWES Natalie: The Hectometric Modelling Challenge
- BAZILE Eric: ARRA : A kilometric re-analysis with AROME over France
Plenary session: Physics Chair: Mohamed Mokhtari co-chair Metodija Shapkaljevski
- GREGOW Erik: MetCoOp Nowcasting and tests with VHR setup
- NĚMEC David: Microphysics developments in ALARO
- BROŽKOVÁ Radmila: Convection permitting climate experiments with ALARO over the Central Europe
Plenary session: Physics (cont.) Chair: Mario Hrastinski co-chair Metodija Shapkaljevski
- SEITY Yann: About the use of aerosols in AROME-France
- RONTU Laura: Harmonie-AROME cloud-aerosol-radiation experiences
- UKKONEN Peter: 3D radiation - possible approaches and preliminary IFS results using SPARTACUS
- KAHNERT Marvin: Stability regimes in HARMONIE-AROME - current status and ongoing developments at Met Norway
- de ROOY Wim: Adapting our parametrisations for the gray zone
- BAZILE Eric: Impact of "pseudo 3D effects", shallow convection and dynamics options for AROME-500m and 200m over Austria
Side meetings in parallel: Surface // 3D-physics
Plenary session: Physics (cont.) Chair: Natalie Theeuwes co-chair Metodija Shapkaljevski
- PREAUX Danaé: T2m bias in mountains: first results
- ETCHEVERS Ingrid: Diagnostics: Improvements and new products
- RIEUTORD Thomas: A review of Big Tech papers on weather prediction with AI
- CHANTRY Matthew: Machine learning to improve NWP
Plenary closing session. Chair: Claude FISCHER
- Summary of sessions and related side-meetings (Area Leaders and co-redactors/chairs) :
  - - Surface by Area Leader (Patrick SAMUELSSON):
  - - Dynamics by Area Leader (Ludovic AUGER):
  - - Physics parametrisations by CSC Leaders (Eric BAZILE, Jeanette ONVLEE, Martina TUDOR) or AL ?:
  - - Data Assimilation by Area Leader (?):
  - - MQA and Applications by Area Leader (Carl FORTELIUS):
  - - Code, System and Transversal Activities by Area Leaders & Integration Leader (Daniel SANTOS, Daan DEGRAUWE, Piet TERMONIA, Alexandre MARY):
  - - EPS by Area Leader (Henrik FEDDERSEN):
- Claude Fischer & Patricia Pottier: Closing
- Final discussion:

Posters: Posters introduction

BELLUŠ Martin: A-LAEF migration to Bologna and extreme weather forecasts
BUČÁNEK Antonín: NWP activities at CHMI
CALVO Javier: NWP activities at AEMET
CEDILNIK Jure: ACCORD activities in Slovenia 2023
CRACIUN Alexandra: National Poster Romania
DALY Conor: ExtractGrib - A new tool to get the data you need from your HARMONIE-AROME forecast
DARCY Rónán: Operational NWP at Met Éireann
DECKMYN Alex: Belgium national poster
DERKOVA Maria: NWP activities at SHMU
FAURE Ghislain: Météo-France NWP systems
GRIEWANK Philipp: Guidance on how to improve vertical covariance localization based on a 1000-member ensemble
JYOTI Kaushambi: Testing the AROME Hybrid 3DEnVar for convective-scale NWP over Austria
MEIER Florian: National Poster Austria
MONTEIRO Maria: Portuguese Status on SRNWP
RANDRIAMAMPIANINA Roger: Use of locally processed polar winds in Arome-Arctic
SEKULA Piotr: ACCORD in Poland
STANESIC Antonio: The NWP activities at Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service
SZEPSZO Gabriella: NWP activities at the Hungarian Meteorological Service
ÜNAL Zeynep Feriha: NWP Activities at TSMS

Local information

The venue for the ASW2023 (Tallinn Nordic Hotel Forum - Tallinna südames) offers accommodation with price 124 EUR/night for the AWS participants. Cheaper accommodation offers from some hotels in the vicinity are proposed in the information pack provided by the local organising committee. Nordic Hotel Forum offers buffet lunches with price 29 to 35 euros per person. Please indicate your interest of having lunch in the hotel in the registration form.