The SODA WORKSHOP (Surfex Offline Data Assimilation workshop) was held in Toulouse, on March 5-6, 2012 (see the agenda).

• Monday 5 March : Presentations
  • Presentation of the workshop (J.-F. Mahfouf, MF)
  • Summary of activities with SURFEX data assimilation at Météo-France (J.-F. Mahfouf, MF)
  • Development of a SURFEX EKF for ALADIN and comparison of the offline and coupled version with the OI analysis (A. Duerinckx, RMI)
  • On the interest of an STAEKF for land surface assimilation (R. Hamdi, RMI)
  • Combined assimilation of satellite derived soil moisture and LAI within the FP7-GEOLAND2 project (A. Barbu, MF)
  • Development on SURFEX data assimilation within HARMONIE (T. Aspelien, MetNo)
  • An EnKF system for land data assimilation: testing the sensitivity of the analyses to assimilation parameters (T. Svendby, NILU)
  • Land surface albedo from MSG geostationary satellite: method for retrieval, validation, and application for weather forecast (D. Carrer, MF)
  • Lake data assimilation with SURFEX : first results (E. Kourzeneva, FMI)
  • Data assimilation with SURFEX for hydrological applications (V. Pedinotti, MF)
  • Plans for snow assimilation within SURFEX at CEN (S. Morin, MF)
  • Snow analysis in HARMONIE with CANARI and OI_MAIN (M. Homleid, MetNo)
  • Improvements to the surface analysis CANARI in the FP7-EURO4M project (C. Soci, MF)
• Tuesday 6 March : Discussion on scientific aspects and on technical aspects
  • Introduction to the discussions
  • Minutes of the discussions (J.-F. Mahfouf, MF)