This year the DAsKIT WD was special since LACE Data Assimilation Working Days (DAWD) was partly joined this year : the program started with a joint session DAWD+DAsKIT, where participants of both meetings gave progress/status presentations; then we had separate programs and a short common discussion.

 Agenda and list of participants

 Presentations

• common block of progress/status presentations
  • Algeria
  • Belgium
  • Bulgaria
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Morocco
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Austria
  • Hungary
  • Croatia
  • Czech Rep.
  • Slovakia
  • Romania
  • Slovenia
• Review talk – surface DA: CANARI+OI_MAIN (Rafiq Hamdi)
• Review talk – DA monitoring/validation (Roger Randriamampianina)
• Practical note – MANDALAY (Alena Trojakova)
• Video-conf on SAPP (Eoin Whelan)
• Practical note – HARP: focus on surface aspects (Alex Deckmyn)
• Final discussion

 Summary report of the 2018 DAsKIT WD

 Next steps

• As announced at the closing session, a google sheet has been created to help the monitoring of the progress & issues on the WD exercises and give feedback on the WD organization.
• DAsKit next goals:
  • finalize the exercises and installations
  • make sure your contribution to the RWP2019 is properly set
  • create a cycle in-doors using the tools provided during the WD
  • validate your cycle
  • a video conference will take place before the end of the year.
• the ODB documentation developed by Dominique Puech (mainly in French) should be made available for Partners (see the article on gmapdoc website).

  Group photo