The fourth meeting of the Expert Team on surface processes took place one day after the 3^rd lake workshop and was kindly hosted at FMI thanks to Laura Rontu and Ekatarina Kurzeneva. Each consortium had at least one representative. This has allowed a rather comprehensive review of the activities among Europe. Discussions concerned the use of the SRNWP Data pool that has been set-up and maintained by COSMO, on activities related to the improvement of the lake databases and climatologies, and on future common activities. We also discussed contributions to the next EWGLAM/SRNWP meetings (titles for the presentations and also a title for the review talk).

Minutes of the meeting (written by Jean-François Mahfouf)

The presentations given during the meeting are available below :

• Introduction (Jean-Francois Mahfouf, MF, LS-ET Coordinator)
• Surface modelling activities in the COSMO community (Jean-Marie Bettems, MeteoSwiss)
• Recent developments in land surface modelling and data assimilation within ALADIN (Rafiq Hamdi, RMI)
• Summary of an ALADIN/LACE/HIRLAM workshop on surface data assimilation (Jean-François Mahfouf, MF)
• HIRLAM work on surface data assimilation and modelling (Ekatarina Kurzeneva, FMI)
• ECMWF land surface modelling and data assimilation activities (Patricia de Rosnay, ECMWF)
• Recent activities in surface modelling at the MetOffice (Gabriel Rooney, MetOffice)
• Discussions on ongoing activities (SNRWP data pool, review talk for the EWGLAM/SRNWP meetings, future of C-SRNWP)