The joint 28^th ALADIN Wk & HIRLAM ASM 2018 will be held on the premises of Météo-France in Toulouse during the third week of April 2018.

• 16 April 2018, 08:30-20:00 : opening session, DA session, Posters session and LTM meeting, icebreaker
• 17 April 2018, 08:30-19:00 : Physics and Dynamics sessions, Surface WG, Climate WG
• 18 April 2018 08:30-22:00 : Verification and Surface sessions, visit and official dinner
• 19 April 2018 08:30-22:00 : EPS and System sessions, System WG; HARP WG,
• 19 April 2018 20:00 : Public conference by Laure Raynaud (pdf of the presentation, video of the presentation), in French, title: "Vers une prévision des incertitudes en météorologie" [1]).
• 20 April 2018 : HMG/CSSI meeting (08:30 - 17:30), for HMG/CSSI members only.

It was possible to remotely attend the Sessions using a dedicated WebEx conference. The sessions were also recorded and the videos are available (see below links in the agenda).

This joint Wk/ASM obtained the label "EuroScience Open Forum 2018 - TOULOUSE, EUROPEAN CITY OF SCIENCE".

 Agenda with link to the presentations (videos and pdf files)

• Plenary opening session. Video of the opening session
• Opening of the Meeting & Welcome speech
  • Piet Termonia: ALADIN status overview
  • Jeanette Onvlee: HIRLAM highlights of the past year
  • Balazs Szintai: Status of the EUMETNET C-SRNWP project
• Plenary session 1: Data Assimilation. Video of the data assimilation session (first part)
  • Yann MICHEL: The future EnVar scheme for the AROME model
  • Roger RANDRIAMAMPIANINA: Upper-air data assimilation in HIRLAM, status and plan
  • Jelena BOJAROVA: Flow-dependent data assimilation in HARMONIE forecasting system
  • Wafa KHALFAOUI: Impact of an improved background-error covariance matrix with an AROME 3DVAR system over Tunisia
  • Carlos GEIJO: Balancing Initial Conditions with Variational Constraints. First Results with 3D-Var and LETKF
  • Jean-Francois MAHFOUF: Ongoing developments on the use of observations in the AROME 3D-Var
• Plenary session 1 (cont.): Data Assimilation. Video of the data assimilation session (second part)
  • Isabel MONTEIRO: ASC2AT Assimilation Experiments with HARMONIE-AROME mesoscale model over Iberian Peninsula
  • Sigurdur THORSTEINSSON: Use of low peaking channels from AMSU-A and AMSU-B over ice
  • Phillip SCHEFFKNECHT: Assimilation of Mode-S Data for High Resolution Simulations
  • Benedikt STRAJNAR: Impact of Mode-S EHS observations in ALADIN
  • Trygve ASPELIEN: On the use of amateur weather observations in an operational nowcasting and NWP framework
  • Xiaohua YANG: C3S Copernicus Arctic Regional Reanalysis system
• Plenary session 2: Physics. Video of the physics session (first part)
  • Yann SEITY: Recent work on AROME physics
  • Sander TIJM: HARMONIE-AROME forecast model developments
  • Radmila BROZKOVA, Neva PRISTOV: ALARO-1 Canonical Model Configuration developments and tests
  • Luc GERARD: Reconnecting cloud representations in Alaro-1
• Plenary session 2 (cont.): Physics. Video of the physics session (second part)
  • Eric BAZILE: What can we learn from GABLS4 ?
  • Benoit VIE: Evaluation of the 2-moment scheme LIMA and recent developments
  • Daniel MARTIN-PEREZ: Modification of cloud condensation nuclei in HARMONIE-AROME microphysical parametrization using CAMS outputs
  • Bjorg Jenny ENGDAHL: Improved representation of supercooled liquid water in HARMONIE-AROME
  • Kristian Pagh NIELSEN: Testing the snow albedo sensitivity in HARMONIE-AROME
• Plenary session 3: Dynamics. Video of the dynamics session
  • Petra SMOLIKOVA: Dynamics in LACE
  • Fabrice VOITUS: Exploring some alternatives to improve the robustness of mass-based SI Spectral NH system
  • Karim YESSAD: An alternate way to treat Melmholtz equation in the NHEE model
  • Daan DEGRAUWE: The mass-based non-hydrostatic dynamics dwarf
  • Martina TUDOR: LBC files - make and use
• WG on Climate
• Side meeting on surface physics and data assimilation
• Plenary session 4: Verification. Video of the verification session (first part)
  • Christoph ZINGERLE: HARP Status and Plans
  • Andrew SINGLETON: The future for point verification in HARP
  • Bent SASS: HIRLAM-C activities on verification: Status and Plans
  • Garcia-Moya JOSE A.: Verification of hourly precipitation using OPERA dataset
  • François BOUYSSEL: Preliminary results with upgraded horizontal resolution in ARPEGE
• Plenary session 4 (cont.) : Verification. Video of the verification session (second part)
  • Angeles HERNANDEZ: Simulated MSG SEVIRI imagery from the HARMONIE-AROME model
  • Joel STEIN & Fabien STOOP: New neighborhood-based contingency tables
  • Ines SANTOS ATIENZA: Assessment of HARM-AROME model at 1.0 km over the Spanish coast for wind forecast
  • Danijel BELUSIC: Large spatial spin-up at inflow boundaries in HCLIM-AROME
  • Discussion (side-meeting announcement)
• Plenary session 5 : Surface. Video of the surface session
  • Patrick LE MOIGNE: SURFEX
  • Patrick SAMUELSSON: Overview of HIRLAM surface activities
  • Camille BIRMAN: Meteo-France operational land surface analysis for NWP: current status and perspectives
  • Ekaterina KURZENEVA: Performance of FLake in HARMONIE
  • Laura RONTU: Status of subgrid-scale orography parametrizations ororad and orotur in HARMONIE-AROME
  • Margarita CHOULGA: Anthropogenic influence to continental land surface stocks and fluxes
  • Patrick LE MOIGNE: ECOCLIMAP Second Generation
• Plenary session 6: EPS. Video of the EPS session
  • Inger-Lise FROGNER: HarmonEPS developments
  • Martin BELLUS: LAM-EPS activities in LACE
  • Yann MICHEL: The AROME EDA: formulation and impact on the deterministic AROME 3DVar
  • Yong WANG: Seamless ensemble forecasting from minutes to days
• Plenary session 7: System. Video of the system session
  • Claude FISCHER: Cycles, mitraillette and the like
  • Daniel SANTOS MUNOZ: HARMONIE-AROME system progress and evolution
  • Roel STAPPERS: OOPS progress at ECMWF
  • Ryad EL KHATIB: Object orientation in post-processing
• Plenary closing session. Video of the closing session
• Side meeting on HARP verification
• System side meeting : minutes

 Posters

• Andrae Ulf : MetCoOp activities
• Azad Roohollah : ALERTNESS project: Advanced models and weather prediction in the Arctic
• Eric Bazile, Rachid Abida, Antoine Verrelle, Patrick Le Moigne, Cornel Soci, C. Szczypta: A 55 year surface analysis over Europe at 5.5km within the UERRA project
• Bojarova Jelena : Relevance of climatological background error statistics for meso-scale data assimilation
• Calvo Javier : The NWP system at AEMET
• Cedilnik Jure : ALADIN in Slovenia - 2018
• Clancy Colm : Operational NWP at Met Eireann
• Darcy Ronan : Operational NWP at Met Eireann
• Deckmyn Alex : National poster Belgium
• Derkova Maria : ALADIN related activities @SHMU
• Dumitru Alina : ALADIN Activities in Romania
• Feddersen Henrik : COMEPS - DMI’s short-range ensemble prediction system
• Gleeson Emily : Radiation Experiments using the ALADIN-HIRLAM System
• Gleeson Emily : Met Eireann’s high resolution experiments
• Guser Alper : Aladin Related Activities at TSMS
• Hdidou Fatima Zahra : Moroccan National poster
• Hdidou Fatima Zahra : GPS data assimilation in Morocco
• Horvath Kristian : Using spectral evaluation to assess the added value of higher resolution modelling
• Imrisek Martin : Data assimilation activities at SHMU
• Kolonko Marcin : Aladin in Poland
• Korpinen Anniina : Simulated effects of land-sea contrasts in Southern Finland
• Kovacic Tomislav : Radar data assimilation in Croatia
• Martínez-Sanchez Mauricia : AEMET-gammaSREPS: current operational status
• Medeiros Paulo : New Developments in OBSMON
• Monteiro Maria : ALADIN - Portuguese Technical and Scientific Activities
• Odak Plenkovic Iris : Deterministic post-processing of ALADIN NWP in Croatia
• Pottier Patricia : NMW systems at Meteo-France
• Randriamampianina Roger : Radar for Improving Precipitation Estimates and Optimization of Hydropower Energy Production (RadPrO)
• Ricard Didier : Impact of turbulence representation on deep convection
• Santos Atienza Ines : Verification of HARM-AROME model at 1.0 km over Spanish harbour areas
• Szucs Mihaly : NWP at the Hungarian Meteorological Service
• Trojakova Alena : NWP activities at CHMI
• Tsenova Boryana : Status of NWP in Bulgaria
• Tudor Martina : Operational forecast using ALADIN System in Croatia in Spring 2018
• Valkonen Teresa : Physiographic data sets in AROME-Arctic
• Wafa Khalfaoui : NWP Activities in Tunisia
• Whelan Eoin : SAPP: Evaluation for Operational NWP
• Wittmann Christoph : NWP related activities in Austria

 About ESOF Toulouse 2018

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