Using ECMWF's Forecasts (UEF2019)

Timetable

 

Monday, 3 June 2019
13:00 → 14:00
Registration and coffee
Weather Room 1h
14:00 → 14:15
Welcome and housekeeping
Speakers: Anna Ghelli (ECMWF), Florence Rabier (ECMWF)
  15m
  Afternoon session - Chair: Anna Ghelli    
14:15 → 14:45
ECMWF product development
Speaker: David Richardson (ECMWF)
  30m
14:45 → 15:15
ECMWF strategic projects: an overview
Speaker: Florian Pappenberger (ECMWF)
  30m
15:15 → 15:45
Coffee break
  30m
  Afternoon session continued    
15:45 → 16:15
ECMWF forecast performance
Speaker: Thomas Haiden (ECMWF)
  30m
16:15 → 18:15
Poster session and drinks reception
  2h
Tuesday, 4 June 2019
  Morning session - Chair: Andrea Montani    
09:30 → 10:00
Informing anticipatory humanitarian action: a framework for using ECMWF forecasts effectively
Speaker: Erica Thompson (London School of Economics)
  30m
10:00 → 10:30
GloFAS extended range flood forecast skill for the major river basins in Bangladesh
Speaker: Sazzad Hossain (University of Reading)
  30m
10:30 → 11:00
Coffee break
  30m
  Morning session continued    
11:00 → 11:30
Agricultural applications of ECMWF ensemble forecasts in Africa
Speaker: Sippora Stellingwerf (Weather Impact)
  30m
11:30 → 12:00
Using ensemble weather forecasts in agronomy modelling
Speaker: Ivana Aleksovska (Météo-France)
  30m
12:00 → 12:30
Strategies for optimising operational decisions using ensemble marine forecasts
Speaker: Ken Mylne (Met Office)
  30m
12:30 → 13:00
The strength of ensembles lies not in probability forecasting
Speaker: Leonard Smith (CATS at London School of Economics)
  30m
13:00 → 14:00
Lunch break
  1h
14:00 → 15:15
Put your skills to the test during our science and art activity - Louise Arnal, Jenny Rourke and Estibaliz Gascon (ECMWF)
Council Chamber, Lecture Theatre 1h 15m
15:15 → 15:45
Coffee break
  30m
  Afternoon session - Chair: Ivan Tsonevsky    
15:45 → 16:15
ECMWF research: near and distant future plans
Speaker: Andy Brown (ECMWF)
  30m
16:15 → 16:45
The ECMWF Ensemble within the Copernicus European and Global Flood Awareness Systems (EFAS & GloFAS)
Speaker: Ervin Zsoter (ECMWF)
  30m
16:45 → 17:15
Extended-range product and diagnostic developments
Speaker: Linus Magnusson (ECMWF)
  30m
17:15 → 18:45
Poster session with drinks and canapés
  1h 30m
Wednesday, 5 June 2019
  Morning session - Chair: Fatima Pillosu    
09:30 → 10:00
Applications of ensemble prediction systems at Météo-France
Speakers: Marie Boisserie (Météo-France), Nicole Girardot (Météo-France)
  30m
10:00 → 10:30
Ensemble based seven day high impact weather outlook
Speaker: Guido Schroeder (DWD)
  30m
10:30 → 11:00
Coffee break
  30m
  1: Morning session continued    
11:00 → 11:30
Progressive warnings with conservative forecasting
Speaker: Elín Björk Jónasdóttir (Icelandic Met Office)
  30m
11:30 → 13:00
User voice corner
Classroom, Council Chamber, LCR, Lecture Theatre, MR5, Weather Room 1h 30m
13:00 → 14:00
Lunch break
  1h
14:00 → 15:15
The Speakers' Corner - Fatima Pillosu : Customise ecPoint rainfall products, Cihan Sahin : ecCharts - faster and more responsive, Ivan Tsonevsky : New ECWMF model products explained
Weather Room, Lobby 1h 15m
15:15 → 15:45
Coffee break
  30m
  Afternoon session - Chair: Estibaliz Gascon    
15:45 → 16:15
Challenges and Limits in Ensemble Weather Prediction
Speaker: Mark Rodwell (ECMWF)
  30m
16:15 → 16:45
Users of ECMWF/Copernicus data in the spotlight – A user perspective on current and future cloud-based data systems (not live streamed)
Speaker: Julia Wagemann (ECMWF)
  30m
16:45 → 18:15
Knowledge Café - The impact of social media on weather related decision making processes
Classroom, Council Chamber, LCR, Lecture Theatre, MR5, Weather Room 1h 30m
19:30 → 21:30
Workshop dinner in Reading town centre
  2h
Thursday, 6 June 2019
  Morning session - Chair: Julia Wagemann    
09:30 → 10:00
Probabilistic fire spread prediction: The case of the deadly wildfire in Mati, Greece
Speaker: Theodore Giannaros (National Observatory of Athens)
  30m
10:00 → 10:30
Quantifying uncertainties and confidence level in ATM simulations
Speaker: Christian Maurer (ZAMG)
  30m
10:30 → 11:00
Coffee break
  30m
  2: Morning session continued    
11:00 → 11:30
Goodbye ERA-Interim, hello ERA5
Speaker: Hans Hersbach (ECMWF)
  30m
11:30 → 12:00
Seasonal forecasts from the Copernicus Climate Change Service
Speaker: Eduardo Penabad Ramos (ECMWF)
  30m
12:00 → 12:30
Prizes and concluding remarks
  30m