Virtual Event: Using ECMWF's Forecasts (UEF2020)

Monday, 1 June
13:30 14:00
Virtual arrival
30m
14:00 14:10
Welcome from ECMWF Director General
Speaker: Florence Rabier (ECMWF)
10m
14:10 14:15
Virtual Housekeeping
Speaker: Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
5m
Afternoon session
Chair: Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
14:15 14:35
ECMWF Product Development
Speaker: David Richardson (ECMWF)
20m
14:35 14:55
ECMWF Future Plans: Reading, Bologna and Global Forecasting
Speaker: Florian Pappenberger (ECMWF)
20m
14:55 15:15
Causes of systematic errors in forecasts of near-surface weather parameters and prospects for reducing them
Speaker: Irina Sandu (ECMWF)
20m
15:15 15:45
Conversations over coffee: Meet ECMWF staff
30m
15:45 16:00
Virtual icebreaker
Speaker: Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
15m
16:00 16:20
ECMWF Forecast Performance
Speaker: Thomas Haiden (ECMWF)
20m
16:20 17:00
Virtual Poster Session A
Speaker: hosted by Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
40m
Tuesday, 2 June
08:45 09:00
Virtual arrival
15m
09:00 09:05
Day 2 Welcome and Housekeeping
Speaker: Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
5m
09:05 09:15
"Keeping users at the heart of operations": Introducing the theme
Speaker: Anna Ghelli (ECMWF)
10m
Thematic area: Research to Operations or Operations to Research
Chair: David Richardson (ECMWF)
09:15 10:00
Improving the Research to Operations process at ECMWF
Speakers: Jenny Rourke (ECMWF), Michael Sleigh (ECMWF)
45m
10:00 10:20
Linkage from Research to Operational activity
Speaker: Jens Bonewitz (DWD)
20m
10:20 11:00
Virtual Poster Session B
Speaker: hosted by Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
40m
11:00 12:00
Lunch break
1h
12:00 12:40
Real-time refinement of ECMWF subseasonal forecast confidence
Speaker: Jan Dutton (Prescient Weather Ltd)
40m
Thematic area: Novel products and services
Chair: David Richardson (ECMWF)
12:40 13:00
Future French severe weather warnings system
Speaker: Alexandre Trajan (Météo-France)
20m
13:00 13:20
Using ECMWF Ensemble Products in Tropical Cyclone Field Program Planning
Speaker: Sharanya Majumdar (University of Miami)
20m
13:20 13:50
Conversations over coffee: Meet your fellow researchers and forecasters
30m
User Voice Corner
Chair: Tim Hewson (ECMWF)
13:50 14:10
User Voice Corner
Speaker: Tim Hewson (ECMWF)
20m
14:10 14:20
User Voice Corner - Breakout Group 1
10m
14:20 14:30
User Voice Corner - Breakout Group 2
10m
14:30 14:40
User Voice Corner - Breakout Group 4
10m
14:40 14:50
User Voice Corner - Breakout Group 5
10m
14:50 15:00
User Voice Corner - Breakout Group 6
10m
15:00 16:00
Virtual Soirée - How well do you know ECMWF? Quiz
Speaker: Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
1h
Wednesday, 3 June
07:15 07:30
Virtual arrival
15m
07:30 07:35
Day 3 Welcome and Housekeeping
Speaker: Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
5m
07:35 07:45
Welcome from ECMWF Director General (repeat)
Speaker: Florence Rabier (ECMWF)
10m
Repeat session
Chair: Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
07:45 08:05
ECMWF Product Development (repeat)
Speaker: David Richardson (ECMWF)
20m
08:05 08:25
ECMWF Future Plans: Reading, Bologna and Global Forecasting (repeat)
Speaker: Florian Pappenberger (ECMWF)
20m
08:25 08:45
Causes of systematic errors forecasts of near-surface weather parameters and prospects for reducing them (repeat)
Speaker: Irina Sandu (ECMWF)
20m
08:45 09:25
Conversations over coffee: Meet ECMWF staff
40m
09:25 09:45
ECMWF Forecast Performance (repeat)
Speaker: Thomas Haiden (ECMWF)
20m
Thematic area: Novel products and services
Chair: Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
09:45 10:05
Utilising ECMWF seasonal hindcast data from a European windstorm insurance loss perspective
Speaker: Richard Dixon (CatInsight, Dept. of Meteorology, University of Reading)
20m
10:05 10:25
Smart Climate Hydropower Tool: An artificial intelligence based service for hydropower production seasonal forecast
Speaker: Paolo Mazzoli (GECOsistema srl)
20m
10:25 10:45
Towards a sub-seasonal agricultural drought forecast
Speaker: Thomas Leppelt (Deutscher Wetterdienst)
20m
10:45 11:00
Interactivity with a chance of clouds
Speaker: Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
15m
11:00 12:00
Lunch break
1h
Thematic area: Integrating new products in established processes / Research to Operations and Operations to Research
Chair: Estibaliz Gascon (ECMWF)
12:00 12:20
Market is king: climate services for whom?
Speaker: Francesca Larosa (Ca' Foscari University of Venice; Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC))
20m
12:20 12:40
Radiosonde descent data: quality and next steps
Speaker: Matti Lehmuskero (Vaisala Oyj)
20m
12:40 13:45
Speakers' Corner - Ivan Tsonevsky: Revision of CAPE and CIN parameters provide as a model output from the IFS, Cihan Sahin: Updates to Meteograms, Fernando Prates: Tropical Cyclone Radius, Ivan Tsonevsky: Extended-range products
Speakers: Ivan Tsonevsky (ECMWF), Cihan Sahin (ECMWF), Fernando Prates (ECMWF)
1h 5m
13:45 13:50
Introduction to reforecasting and extended range forecasts
Speaker: Frederic Vitart (ECMWF)
5m
13:50 14:20
Conversations over coffee: 1) Meet your fellow university students and 2) Focus on reforcasting and extended range forecasts
30m
14:20 15:00
Machine Learning for Weather
Speaker: David Hall (Nvidia)
40m
Thursday, 4 June
07:15 07:30
Virtual arrival
15m
07:30 07:35
Day 4 Welcome and Housekeeping
Speaker: Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
5m
Morning session
Chair: Anna Ghelli (ECMWF)
07:35 07:40
Copernicus Services at ECMWF: An Overview
Speaker: Jean-Noel Thepaut (ECMWF)
5m
07:40 08:00
Recent activities of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and plans for the next phase
Speaker: Carlo Buontempo (ECMWF)
20m
08:00 08:20
CAMS, high-quality information about air composition in support of COVID-19 R&D
Speaker: Vincent-Henri Peuch (ECMWF)
20m
08:20 08:40
Forecasting floods and wildfires - overview of Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS) activities at ECMWF
Speaker: Fredrik Wetterhall (ECMWF)
20m
08:40 09:00
Data-driven climate communication - the example of the European State of the Climate 2019
Speaker: Freja Vamborg (ECMWF)
20m
09:00 09:30
Conversations over coffee: Meet your fellow Copernicus colleagues
30m
09:30 10:00
Developing applications for climate and meteorology in the CDS Toolbox - interactive session
Speaker: Edward Comyn-Platt (ECMWF)
30m
10:00 10:20
Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Sectoral Information System (SIS)
Speaker: Chiara Cagnazzo (ECMWF)
20m
10:20 10:40
Capgemini’s AsSISt airline maintenance service, powered by CAMS
Speakers: Carine Saüt (Capgemini), Nicolas Estival (Capgemini)
20m
10:40 10:50
ERA5-Land, dedicated land surface reanalysis
Speaker: Joaquin Munoz-Sabater (ECMWF)
10m
10:50 11:00
Concluding remarks and feedback poll
Speaker: ECMWF
10m

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