The Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (Portugal) hosted the joint 26th ALADIN Wk & HIRLAM 2016 ASM. The major meeting was held at the hotel TRYP Lisboa Aeroporto which is located on IPMA headquarters neighborhood.
Agenda and participantsPresentations : documents and records
- The .pdf files of the presentations and posters are available through the below links.
- The sessions have been recorded and can be viewed on the "Partners only" part of the ALADIN website, please log in, then link to the Lisbon videos.
- Monday, 4 April 2016
- Plenary opening session
- Piet Termonia : ALADIN status overview
- Jeanette Onvlee : HIRLAM highlights of the past year and challenges for HIRLAM-C
- Balazs Szintai : Status of the EUMETNET C-SRNWP project
- Plenary session 1: Data Assimilation
- Claude Fischer : Data assimilation aspects at Meteo-France
- Mate Mile : Highlights of latest LACE data assimilation activities
- Roger Randriamampianina : Hirlam upper-air data assimilation: progress and plans
- Jan Barkmeijer : The observations IMPACT experiment
- Eoin Whelan : Use of observations in HARMONIE (including WMO BUFR and COPE)
- Roohollah Azad : Assimilation of Norwegian radar reflectivity in Harmonie: Quality control strategies
- Magnus Lindskog : Data assimilation for improving short-range DNI forecasting
- Florian Meier : AROME-Nowcasting in Austria
- Plenary session 2: Surface
- Patrick Samuelsson : HIRLAM plans for surface physics and data assimilation development
- Helga Toth : Biomass and Soil Moisture Assimilation over Hungary in the framework of IMAGINES project
- Rafiq Hamdi : Combining the EKF soil analysis with a three dimensional variational upper-air assimilation for ALARO
- Sander Tijm : SURFEX fluxes in Spring and Summer
- Yurii Batrak SICE : simple sea ice scheme
- Carl Fortelius : Urban heat fluxes from  Arome-Harmonie compared to eddy-covariance data
- Martina Tudor : Fields in ISBA clim files
- General discussion
- Posters session
- ALADIN LTM meeting
- WG on Harmonie-Climate
- Tuesday 5 April 2016
- Plenary session 3: Forecast model
- Petra Smolikova : RC LACE dynamics activities
- Yann Seity : Recent MF developments in AROME physics
- Neva Pristov : Alaro status overview
- Eric Bazile : What’s up for the physics in the coming months ....
- Lisa Bengtsson : Recent HIRLAM developments in HARMONIE-AROME physics/dynamics
- Radmila Brozkova : New shallow convection parameterization in ALARO-1
- Wim de Rooy : HARATU update
- Eric Bazile : Preliminary results for the GABLS4 intercomparison
- Laura Rontu : HARMONIE radiation studies 2012-2016
- Karl-Ivar Ivarsson : Latest updates of the cloud- and condensation parametrizations in HARMONIE/AROME
- General discussion (announcement of the clouds side meeting)
- Plenary session 4: EPS
- Martin Bellus : LAM-EPS activities in LACE
- Inger-Lise Frogner : Developments in GLAMEPS and HarmonEPS
- Andrew Singleton : Perturbation experiments with MetCoOp EPS (MEPS)
- Garcia-Moya Jose A : gSREPS: Mesoscale EPS in AEMET. Status
- Xiaohua Yang : COMEPS, a mesoscale-EPS RUC system
- Mihaly Szucs : Test of the SPPT scheme
- Johansson Ã…ke : Issues in the verification of EPS
- General discussion
- Side meeting on DA algorithm or Use of observations
- Side meeting on clouds
- Wednesday 6 April 2016
- Plenary session 5: System
- Daniel Santos-Munoz : HIRLAM-C plans for system
- Claude Fischer : Cycles and code changes
- Ryad El Khatib : Toward Fullpos in OOPS
- Roel Stappers : Matrix free linear algebra in OOPS
- Daan Degrauwe : The way out of the scalability gridlock: ESCAPing dwarfs
- Alexandre Mary : The EPyGrAM tool: a Python library for handling model fields
- General discussion (announcement of the system side meeting)
- Side meeting on system
- Side meeting on surface data assimilation
- Status of surface assimilation at MF, Eric Bazile
- Surface assimilation activities in LACE, Mate Mile
- HIRLAM surface data assimilation, Patrick Samuelsson
- Surface data assimilation at RMI, Rafiq Hamdi
– Thursday 7 April 2016
- Plenary session 6: Quality, user and climate aspects
- Piet Termonia : Feedback from ALADIN Forecasters meeting
- Bent Sass : Quality Assurance of Harmonie during HIRLAM-C
- Hylke de Vries : Harmonie-Climate, first results and future plans
- Jure Cedilnik : Two-way coupling of ALADIN and POM ocean model for Adriatic sea
- Lesley De Cruz : Validation and climate projections of the ALARO-0 model on the EURO-CORDEX domain
- General discussion
- Plenary closing session
- Friday 8 April 2016
- Meeting of the HIRLAM Management Group and the ALADIN Committee for Scientific and System/maintenance Issues
On-line posters
- Christoph Wittmann : NWP related activities in Austria
- Rafiq Hamdi : Belgian National Poster
- Boryana Tsenova : NWP in Bulgaria
- Martina Tudor : Operational suite in Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service- status and plans
- Alena Trojakova : The NWP activities at CHMI
- Alena Trojakova : Assimilation of aircraft Mode-S observations in ALADIN/CHMI
- Nielsen Kristian Pagh, Alexander Mahura and Xiaohua Yang : Aerosol effects over China investigated with a high resolution convection permitting weather model
- Xiaohua Yang : IGA and operational collaboration between IMO and DMI (preliminary)
- Ekaterina Kurzeneva : Status of lake developments in HARMONIE
- Patricia Pottier : The NWP systems at Meteo-France
- Patricia Pottier : ALADIN 25th Anniversary
- Claude Fischer : Sensitivity of regional ensemble data assimilation spread to perturbations of lateral boundary conditions (El Ouaraini, Berre, Fischer, Sayouty)
- Balazs Szintai : NWP at the Hungarian Meteorological Service
- Emily Gleeson : Radiation Experiments using the ALADIN-HIRLAM system
- Ruth Mottram : Glaciers in HARMONIE
- Eoin Whelan : Operational NWP in Met Eireann
- Hanneke Luijting, Trygve Aspelien, Yurii Batrak, Mariken Homleid, Jørn Kristiansen, Teresa Valkonen and Dagrun Vikhamar Schuler : Surface modelling and assimilation at MET Norway
- Hassan Haddouch : Numerical weather prediction in Morocco
- Randriamampianina Roger : Use of geostationary and polar atmospheric motion vectors
- Randriamampianina Roger : OSE and OSSE with the AROME model over the Arctic
- Marek Jerczynski : Polish national poster
- Maria Monteiro : ALADIN - Portuguese Technical and Scientific Activities
- Alexandra Craciun : Aladin activities in Romania
- Maria Derkova : ALADIN related activities @SHMU
- Benedikt Strajnar : ALADIN in Slovenia - 2016
- Jana Sanchez Arriola : Use of observations in Aemet Harmonie suite
- Javier Calvo : Operational NWP systems in AEMET
- Alvaro Subias : Vertical finite elements - some test
- Ulf Andrae : MEPS, Ensemble forecasting in MetCoOp
- Per Unden : UERRA - Regional Reanalyses and Uncertainties
- Bjorn Stensen : Experience with HarmonEPS in multi-physics mode
- Alper Guser : ALADIN Related activities in TURKEY
- Bin Cheng, Yurii Batrak, Jiechen Zhao, Zhongxiang Tian and Marcel Nicolaus: Observed and modelled snow and ice thickness in the Arctic Ocean
Some photos : opening session
- Plenary opening session
- Piet Termonia : ALADIN status overview
- Jeanette Onvlee : HIRLAM highlights of the past year and challenges for HIRLAM-C
- Balazs Szintai : Status of the EUMETNET C-SRNWP project
- Plenary session 1: Data Assimilation
- Claude Fischer : Data assimilation aspects at Meteo-France
- Mate Mile : Highlights of latest LACE data assimilation activities
- Roger Randriamampianina : Hirlam upper-air data assimilation: progress and plans
- Jan Barkmeijer : The observations IMPACT experiment
- Eoin Whelan : Use of observations in HARMONIE (including WMO BUFR and COPE)
- Roohollah Azad : Assimilation of Norwegian radar reflectivity in Harmonie: Quality control strategies
- Magnus Lindskog : Data assimilation for improving short-range DNI forecasting
- Florian Meier : AROME-Nowcasting in Austria
- Plenary session 2: Surface
- Patrick Samuelsson : HIRLAM plans for surface physics and data assimilation development
- Helga Toth : Biomass and Soil Moisture Assimilation over Hungary in the framework of IMAGINES project
- Rafiq Hamdi : Combining the EKF soil analysis with a three dimensional variational upper-air assimilation for ALARO
- Sander Tijm : SURFEX fluxes in Spring and Summer
- Yurii Batrak SICE : simple sea ice scheme
- Carl Fortelius : Urban heat fluxes from  Arome-Harmonie compared to eddy-covariance data
- Martina Tudor : Fields in ISBA clim files
- General discussion
- Posters session
- ALADIN LTM meeting
- WG on Harmonie-Climate
- Plenary session 3: Forecast model
- Petra Smolikova : RC LACE dynamics activities
- Yann Seity : Recent MF developments in AROME physics
- Neva Pristov : Alaro status overview
- Eric Bazile : What’s up for the physics in the coming months ....
- Lisa Bengtsson : Recent HIRLAM developments in HARMONIE-AROME physics/dynamics
- Radmila Brozkova : New shallow convection parameterization in ALARO-1
- Wim de Rooy : HARATU update
- Eric Bazile : Preliminary results for the GABLS4 intercomparison
- Laura Rontu : HARMONIE radiation studies 2012-2016
- Karl-Ivar Ivarsson : Latest updates of the cloud- and condensation parametrizations in HARMONIE/AROME
- General discussion (announcement of the clouds side meeting)
- Plenary session 4: EPS
- Martin Bellus : LAM-EPS activities in LACE
- Inger-Lise Frogner : Developments in GLAMEPS and HarmonEPS
- Andrew Singleton : Perturbation experiments with MetCoOp EPS (MEPS)
- Garcia-Moya Jose A : gSREPS: Mesoscale EPS in AEMET. Status
- Xiaohua Yang : COMEPS, a mesoscale-EPS RUC system
- Mihaly Szucs : Test of the SPPT scheme
- Johansson Ã…ke : Issues in the verification of EPS
- General discussion
- Side meeting on DA algorithm or Use of observations
- Side meeting on clouds
- Plenary session 5: System
- Daniel Santos-Munoz : HIRLAM-C plans for system
- Claude Fischer : Cycles and code changes
- Ryad El Khatib : Toward Fullpos in OOPS
- Roel Stappers : Matrix free linear algebra in OOPS
- Daan Degrauwe : The way out of the scalability gridlock: ESCAPing dwarfs
- Alexandre Mary : The EPyGrAM tool: a Python library for handling model fields
- General discussion (announcement of the system side meeting)
- Side meeting on system
- Side meeting on surface data assimilation
- Status of surface assimilation at MF, Eric Bazile
- Surface assimilation activities in LACE, Mate Mile
- HIRLAM surface data assimilation, Patrick Samuelsson
- Surface data assimilation at RMI, Rafiq Hamdi
– Thursday 7 April 2016
- Plenary session 6: Quality, user and climate aspects
- Piet Termonia : Feedback from ALADIN Forecasters meeting
- Bent Sass : Quality Assurance of Harmonie during HIRLAM-C
- Hylke de Vries : Harmonie-Climate, first results and future plans
- Jure Cedilnik : Two-way coupling of ALADIN and POM ocean model for Adriatic sea
- Lesley De Cruz : Validation and climate projections of the ALARO-0 model on the EURO-CORDEX domain
- General discussion
- Plenary closing session
- Meeting of the HIRLAM Management Group and the ALADIN Committee for Scientific and System/maintenance Issues
Practical information
Please read the local and practical information document. It contains all necessary information before you register on-line and contact the hotel you’ve chosen:
- MEETING PLACE
- ACCOMMODATION
- TRANSPORTS
- LISBON TOURISM AND CULTURAL OFFERS
- REGISTRATION : for attendance, presentation, poster
- CONTACT the local organizing committee
- APPENDIX :
IPMA headquarters neighbourhood map, METRO map, TIVOLI hotel registration form, TRYP hotel registration form.
Please register before the end of February (list of registered participants).
:-) The agenda was prepared from your proposed presentations/posters and is available here : agenda, posters, list of participants.
The major meeting is scheduled from Monday 4 April at 08:30 until Thursday 7 early afternoon. The HMG/CSSI is planned on Friday 8 (whole day). Laura Rontu is organizing a Radiation meeting in IPMA on 31 March - 1 April (you may let the organizers know about your attendance by indicating it on the registration page (in the last field).









