At the kind invitation of the Hungarian Meteorological Service, the 5th ACCORD All Staff Workshop will be held in Zalakaros (Hungary) as a hybrid meeting from 31 March to 4 April 2025, in the premise of the Karos Hotel Spa
Local informations - Practical informations
Karos Hotel can host all participants with a prefered rate. All details are in the comprehensive information document prepared by our hosts: Information pack
Please, read carefully the document before filling your form for the hotel.
You can register at the hotel with this specific form to be send back to the hotel rendezveny@karos-spa.hu with szepszo.g@met.hu and css@accord-nwp.org in copy.
form updated on 14th February
More informations according to your questions :
- The hotel has parking spaces if you arrive by car.
- It is not compulsory to book your room or your lunch at Karos hotel, but it is recommended for practical reasons and the rates have been negotiated.
- You can find more informations about some useful places in Zalakaros
Registration
The registration for attending the workshop in Zalakaros is now closed. However, if you did not register yet, you can still do it for an online participation (without a presentation) throught this form until 25 March 2025.
Guidelines for a soft hybrid ASW
For speakers, for posters, for chairs, for participants
Please upload your presentations in PRESENTATIONS and your poster in POSTERS
Social events
The ice breaker will be on Monday evening, after the poster session.
An Excursion (walking tour, hiking) in the surrounding nature is planned on Wednesday afternoon. Its length depends on the weather and the allocated time. Rain coats, hats and shoes for excursions are recommended to have in your luggage.
If you plan to swim in the mornings or in case of heavy rain on Wednesday afternoon, please do not forget to bring your swimming suit since usually neither swimming pools nor saunas are textil-free in Hungary.
Dinner on Wednesday after the excursion or the afternoon programme between 7 and 11
pm. All the workshop participants are invited to a buffet dinner with several meal options,
wines, beers and soft drinks in the hotel restaurant
Participants
The list of Participants is available as well. Please check that you are well registered. Updated on the 28 March 2025.
Agenda
The Agenda is now available. There will be probably last minutes changes and the chairs will be added later. Updated on the 28 March 2025.
Sessions
This year the sessions are divided in two:
Regular and General Area Sessions with general talks.
Topical Sessions on more specific topics with more time for discussions.
All sessions will be recorded and the videos will be available on this webpage.
We will have 2 rooms for the ASW.
All General Area Session will take place in the conference room.
A second room is available all week, behind the conference room, for Topical Sessions when in parallel with another session.
For those who want to take the opportunity to meet beside the meeting the second room will be free the rest of the time.
- Registration
Monday 31 March 8:30 CEST
- Opening session. Chair: Gabriella Szepszo.
Monday 31 March 9:00 CEST - webex general link password: 5thASW- HORVÁTH Gyula (HungaroMet CEO): Opening of the meeting and welcome speech
- SZEPSZO Gabriella: Practical information provided by HungaroMet organizer
- FISCHER Claude: ACCORD introductory presentation
- SCHRAFF Christoph: News about C-SRNWP
- Newcomer Session. Chair: Claude Fischer
Monday 31 March 10:00 CEST - webex general link password: 5thASW
- Ensemble forecasting and predictability. Chair: Alex Deckmyn. Online co-chair: Pau Escribà.
Monday 31 March 11:00 CEST - webex general link password: 5thASW- OLLINAHO Pirkka: Model uncertainty (SPP) in CY46
- VAN DER VEEN Sibbo: Perturbing terminal fall speeds of precipitation in Harmonie EPS
- KERESTURI Endi: Flow dependent SPP
- FANNON James: Utilising the URANIE platform for optimisation of the stochastically perturbed parameterizations scheme in HARMONIE-AROME
- Newcomer Session - Area Leader Desk.
Monday 31 March 14:00 CEST webex general link password: 5thASW- Presentation of Area Leaders
- Area Learders available for all for discussions (in Zalakaros only)
- Scientific Posters introduction. Chair: Javier Calvo.
Monday 31 March 15:40 CEST - webex general link password: 5thASW
- LTMs meeting
- Posters viewing.
- Data Assimilation. Chair: Reima Eresmaa. Online co-chair: Wafa Khalfaoui.
Tuesday 1 April 08:30 CEST - webex general link password: 5thASW- BUČÁNEK Antonín: Data assimilation activities in RC LACE
- LINDSKOG MAGNUS: HARMONIE-AROME algoritmic work
- DIEZ Maria: Progress in HARMONIE-AROME satellite data assimilation
- MALLICK Swapan: Impact of Assimilating AMSU-A Microwave Radiances with a high-resolution Data Assimilation System over different surface
- NEDUNCHERAN Adhithiyan: AllSky VIS/IR assimilation activities at GeoSphere Austria
- MEIER Florian: Assimilation of Sentinel-1 delays into AROME
- Meteorological Quality Assurance. Chair: Christoph Wittmann. Online co-chair: Marvin Kähnert.
Tuesday 1 April 11:20 CEST - webex general link password: 5thASW- PRIEDITIS Gatis: Integrating HARP functionality into a Dash framework for a customizable visualization tool
- SCHEFFKNECHT Phillip: Validation of 500 m AROME runs in the Framework of DEODE
- WHELAN Eoin: DA based verification - an update
- FORTELIUS Carl: User feedback: collecting and reacting
- Documentation, a cross-cutting topic. Chair: Jana Sanchez.
Tuesday 1 April 14:20 CEST - webex specific link password: 5thASW
Preleminary material for this session on the ACCORD wiki.- SANCHEZ-ARRIOLA Jana: Documentation in ACCORD
- Advanced DA algorithms and DA-EPS cross-cutting topics. Co-chairs: Benedikt Strajnar, Magnus Lindskog. Online co-chair: Martin Belluš
Tuesday 1 April 15:50 CEST - webex specific link password: 5thASW
Preleminary material for this session in this document.- STRAJNAR Benedikt: First Experience with 3DEnVar in Routine Runs of the Claef1k Ensemble
- SANCHEZ-ARRIOLA Jana: Tuning results of cy46 Harmonie-AROME
- GEIJO GUERRERO Carlos: Modelling Flow-Dependent Covariances with Gaussian Integrals
- MARTET Maud: The new AROME-France E-suite : data assimilation aspects and general performances
- Questions for discussion
- Surface analysis and modelling. Chair: Helga Tóth. Online co-chair: Bogdan Bochenek.
Wednesday 2 April 08:30 CEST - webex general link password: 5thASW- TUDOR Martina: LACE activities in the surface area
- MAŠEK Ján: Status of ALARO with SURFEX
- KÄHNERT Marvin: A breakdown of T2M and the SBL in our models - impacts of XRIMAX, MEB and more
- KURZENEVA Ekaterina: Component validation for Surface: ideas and first steps
- BIRMAN Camille: Progress of the MASCOT project at Météo France: towards a new surface physic for ARPEGE
- SAMUELSSON Patrick: Overview of ACCORD surface activities
- Code and system. Chair: Niko Sokka. Online co-chair: Walid Chikhi.
Wednesday 2 April 11:20 CEST - webex general link password: 5thASW- SANTOS MUÑOZ Daniel: ACCORD System activities 2020-2024 review
- MARY Alexandre: Of source code management
- HAUMONT Denis: CMake compilation in IAL-bundle
- EL KHATIB Ryad: Outcomes of Météo-France RAPS 2024 and overview of the Benchmark 2025
- MQA infrastructure. Chair: Carl Fortelius. Online co-chair: Metodija Chapkalijevski.
Wednesday 2 April 14:20 CEST - webex specific link password: 5thASW
Preleminary material for this session on the ACCORD wiki.
- Climate. Chair: Oskar Landgren. Online co-chair: Fuxing Wang.
Wednesday 2 April 14:20 CEST - webex specific link password: 5thASW
- Dynamics. Chair: Radmila Brožková. Online co-chair: Alexandra Craciun.
Thursday 3 April 08:30 CEST - webex general link password: 5thASW- BROŽKOVÁ Radmila: Cubic, quadratic or linear truncation: compute cost and quality
- SMOLIKOVA Petra: Novelties in model dynamics
- VOITUS Fabrice: Improving the stability of the Iterative centred implicit time scheme of AROME model
- Physic Parametrization. Chair: Mohamed Mokhtari. Online co-chair: Emily Gleeson.
Thursday 3 April 09:50 CEST - webex general link password: 5thASW- HRASTINSKI Mario: Physics activities in RC-LACE
- NEMEC David: Initial Steps in Double-Moment Microphysics in ALARO
- VIE Benoit: Recent evaluation and improvements of the LIMA microphysical scheme
- MARTIN PEREZ Daniel: Cloud Aerosol Radiation developments
- SCHAEFER Sophia: Progress on ecRad radiation in Météo-France and ACCORD models
- VAN WEVERBERG Kwinten: Evaluation of the ALARO-Surfex model in Europe and the Tropics
- SHAPKALIJEVSKI Metodija: On the process-oriented model validation; its status and perspectives in ACCORD
- Urban forecasting and observations. Chair: Carl Fortelius. Online co-chair: Metodija Shapkalijevski.
Thursday 3 April 14:20 CEST - webex specific link password: 5thASW
Preleminary material for this session on the ACCORD wiki- FORTELIUS Carl : Overview presentation on how TEB is used in our operational systems
- THEEUWES Natalie: The UrbanAir project
- Code refactoring, code evolution including coding norms & their documentation. Chair: Daan Degrauwe. Online co-chair: Rolf Heilemann Myhre.
Thursday 3 April 14:20 CEST - webex specific link password: 5thASW
Preleminary material for this session on the ACCORD wiki.- DEGRAUWE Daan : Overview and status of code refactoring
- GRASSET Judicaël : Usage of FieldAPI
- COSSEVIN Erwan : Source-to-source translation tools,
- HEILEMANN MYHRE Rolf : Refactoring of AROME/HARMONIE-AROME
- Developer system environment.
Thursday 3 April 16:30 CEST - webex specific link password: 5thASW
Preleminary material for this session on the ACCORD wiki.
- NWP and ML: where are we going? Online co-chair: Swapan Mallick.
Friday 4 April 08:30 CEST - webex specific link password: 5thASW
Preleminary material for this session on the ACCORD wiki.- ABRAMOWICZ Alice: A Machine Learning-based Approach for Bias Correction of Microwave Radiances in Regional NWP
- BREMNES John Bjørnar: Bris: A high-resolution data-driven machine learning model
- MAGNUSSON Linus: Forecast evaluation comparing ML and NWP forecasts
- Applications. Chair: Cécile Loo. Online co-chair: André Simon.
Friday 4 April 10:40 CEST - webex general link password: 5thASW- RANDRIAMAMPIANINA Roger: Progress with the Destination Earth Extremes Digital Twin
- BAZILE Eric: Overview on AROME in various region and future plans
- LANDGREN Oskar: Updates from HCLIM
- Closing session.
Friday 4 April 12:00 CEST - webex general link password: 5thASW- Claude FISCHER: Debrief from the 2024 ASW
- Claude FISCHER: AOB
Posters
Please upload your poster in POSTERS
- Thematic posters
- National posters
- SZEPSZO Gabriella: NWP activities at the Hungarian Meteorological Service
- TSENOVA Boryana: NWP in Bulgaria
- LOO Cécile: Overview of Meteo-France NWP systems
- BENACCHIO Tommaso: Weather modelling activities at DMI
- TROJAKOVA Alena: Numerical Weather Prediction at CHMI
- CEDILNIK Jure: ACCORD related activities in Slovenia
- DERKOVA Maria: ACCORD related activities @SHMU
- ZAJEC Anamarija: The NWP activities at croatian Meteorological and hidrological service in Spring 2025
- CRĂCIUN Alexandra: National poster
- CALVO Javier: AEMET NWP activities
- WEIDLE Florian: NWP activities in Austria
- FATIMA Hdidou: Moroccan national poster
- MONTEIRO Maria: NWP activities at IPMA
- Extra webex link
For those who want to take the opportunity to meet beside the meeting
https://meteo.webex.com/meteo/j.php?MTID=mc832ad4a4b8b6d595b14035c12019db6
The link will be available all week, when the small room is available.