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
- 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).