In Memory of Nils Gustafsson

We pass the sad news that our close friend and colleague Nils Gustafsson passed away on Sunday 21 July.

Please find attached a memory note “In Memory of Nils Gustafsson”, from colleagues at SMHI.

An internet dashboard room has also been created where colleagues are welcome to express their own personal thoughts:
https://www.kudoboard.com/boards/cWafLTWi
Nils Gustafsson

Strategy Workshop, 21-24 May 2024, Toulouse & hybrid
The workshop was held in Toulouse with 22 participants in-situ, 3 online.
It was some very intense and productive days, with a high level of motivation and involvement by the participants.
The draft strategy document has been produced, in a multi-handed editing format. It is now circulating in NMHS through your STAC representatives.

ACCORD in situ participants to the 2026-2030 Strategy Workshop

4th All Staff Workshop, 15-19 April 2024, Norrköping & hybrid
Since Monday 15 April, the ACCORD 4th All Staff Workshop have started ! Find any information on the 4th ACCORD ASW page

4th ACCORD ASW in-situ participants

Governance meetings in 2024

More information and material on the dedicated pages under "EVENTS"

  • MG regular video-meetings (every other Friday morning)
  • Bureau regular meeting (once per month)
  • All Staff Workshop (with LTM meeting): Norrköping (hybrid), 15-19 April 2024
  • 11th LTM video meeting: 29 April afternoon
  • Strategy meeting: 21-24 May 2024, Toulouse (hybrid)
  • STAC spring meeting: 5 June morning (video)
  • 8th Assembly video meeting, 3 July morning
  • STAC half-day video meeting: September. Date tbc
  • EWGLAM-SRNWP meeting 30 September - 4 OCtober, hybrid meeting (Czech Republic) with, if possible an LTM meeting, and a MG meeting
  • autumn STAC, two half-day, in person, first half of November date and place to be defined
  • PAC meeting, if convened by the Assembly
  • ACCORD Bureau to prepare the Assembly
  • Assembly meeting, 9 December, Reading (hybrid)

The 6th hybrid STAC meeting was held at the RMI in Brussels on 25 and 26 October
The entire MG was exceptionally invited to attend.
This was an opportunity for the two groups to work together on preparing the scientific strategy for the next phase of ACCORD.

ACCORD MG visit to IMO (Reykjavik) and 3nd in-person MG meeting.
On 28 September, the ACCORD/MG met the NWP team of IMO (Icelandic Met Office) besides the EWGLAM/C-SRNWP conference, in order to learn more about the staff composing the team, their fields of interest and their organisation.

Group photo of IMO representatives and staff with the ACCORD/MG

From the 1st of January 2021, 26 National Met Services [1] join more closely their scientific research efforts towards developing the tools of excellence for NWP on Limited Area Domains and enter into a large partnership : the consortium ACCORD (A Consortium for COnvection-scale modelling Research and Development).
The ACCORD governance and organisation is defined in the Memorandum of Understanding. The strategy of the consortium and the common key objectives of the Members for the next five years are summarised in the document 2021-2025 Strategy. Annual Rolling Work Plans are derived from this strategy.

ACCORD Members
ACCORD Organisational chart, December 2023
ACCORD Local Team Managers photo gallery, March 2023
ACCORD Management Group photo gallery, on March 2023
ACCORD PAC Group photo gallery, from 1/1/2023
ACCORD STAC Group photo gallery, from 1/1/2023