Workshop: Observational campaigns for better weather forecasts

Often it is thought that observations exist to serve models. A commonplace idea in the atmospheric and climate sciences is that observations exist to 'verify', 'evaluate' or 'improve' models. In this talk I instead focus on how models can be used to guide observations. By identifying specific processes underlying a particular type of modeled behavior, models can instead be used to craft...

In the past decade, the German Aerospace Center was involved in a series of observational campaigns with various objectives, e.g. on atmospheric dynamics, cloud microphysics or atmospheric chemistry. This presentation gives an overview of active remote-sensing lidar and radar profile observations of winds, humidity, ozone, aerosols and clouds; i.e. parameters of potential relevance for...

Over the last decades the Swedish icebreaker Oden has had atmospheric research mission to the central Arctic four summers; 2001, 2008, 2014 & 2018. The data brought back from these expeditions provides invaluable detail on conditions and processes that can be used to test models and model formulations. But the field campaigns also rely on weather forecasts for the operations. One very special...

Météo-France/CNRM has a long experience and know-how in designing field experiments for developing and improving physical parameterizations for atmosphere, continental surfaces and ocean coupled models. The most outstanding field campaigns of the last decades include those coordinating in CAPITOUL on urban boundary layer in 2004-2005 (Masson et al, 2008), in AMMA on African Monsoon in 2006...