Virtual Event: Using ECMWF's Forecasts (UEF2020)

Monday, 1 June
1:30 PM 2:00 PM
Virtual arrival
30m
2:00 PM 2:10 PM
Welcome from ECMWF Director General
Speaker: Florence Rabier (ECMWF)
10m
2:10 PM 2:15 PM
Virtual Housekeeping
Speaker: Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
5m
Afternoon session
Chair: Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
2:15 PM 2:35 PM
ECMWF Product Development
Speaker: David Richardson (ECMWF)
20m
2:35 PM 2:55 PM
ECMWF Future Plans: Reading, Bologna and Global Forecasting
Speaker: Florian Pappenberger (ECMWF)
20m
2:55 PM 3:15 PM
Causes of systematic errors in forecasts of near-surface weather parameters and prospects for reducing them
Speaker: Irina Sandu (ECMWF)
20m
3:15 PM 3:45 PM
Conversations over coffee: Meet ECMWF staff
30m
3:45 PM 4:00 PM
Virtual icebreaker
Speaker: Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
15m
4:00 PM 4:20 PM
ECMWF Forecast Performance
Speaker: Thomas Haiden (ECMWF)
20m
4:20 PM 5:00 PM
Virtual Poster Session A
Speaker: hosted by Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
40m
Tuesday, 2 June
8:45 AM 9:00 AM
Virtual arrival
15m
9:00 AM 9:05 AM
Day 2 Welcome and Housekeeping
Speaker: Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
5m
9:05 AM 9:15 AM
"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)
9:15 AM 10:00 AM
Improving the Research to Operations process at ECMWF
Speakers: Jenny Rourke (ECMWF), Michael Sleigh (ECMWF)
45m
10:00 AM 10:20 AM
Linkage from Research to Operational activity
Speaker: Jens Bonewitz (DWD)
20m
10:20 AM 11:00 AM
Virtual Poster Session B
Speaker: hosted by Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
40m
11:00 AM 12:00 PM
Lunch break
1h
12:00 PM 12:40 PM
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 PM 1:00 PM
Future French severe weather warnings system
Speaker: Alexandre Trajan (Météo-France)
20m
1:00 PM 1:20 PM
Using ECMWF Ensemble Products in Tropical Cyclone Field Program Planning
Speaker: Sharanya Majumdar (University of Miami)
20m
1:20 PM 1:50 PM
Conversations over coffee: Meet your fellow researchers and forecasters
30m
User Voice Corner
Chair: Tim Hewson (ECMWF)
1:50 PM 2:10 PM
User Voice Corner
Speaker: Tim Hewson (ECMWF)
20m
2:10 PM 2:20 PM
User Voice Corner - Breakout Group 1
10m
2:20 PM 2:30 PM
User Voice Corner - Breakout Group 2
10m
2:30 PM 2:40 PM
User Voice Corner - Breakout Group 4
10m
2:40 PM 2:50 PM
User Voice Corner - Breakout Group 5
10m
2:50 PM 3:00 PM
User Voice Corner - Breakout Group 6
10m
3:00 PM 4:00 PM
Virtual Soirée - How well do you know ECMWF? Quiz
Speaker: Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
1h
Wednesday, 3 June
7:15 AM 7:30 AM
Virtual arrival
15m
7:30 AM 7:35 AM
Day 3 Welcome and Housekeeping
Speaker: Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
5m
7:35 AM 7:45 AM
Welcome from ECMWF Director General (repeat)
Speaker: Florence Rabier (ECMWF)
10m
Repeat session
Chair: Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
7:45 AM 8:05 AM
ECMWF Product Development (repeat)
Speaker: David Richardson (ECMWF)
20m
8:05 AM 8:25 AM
ECMWF Future Plans: Reading, Bologna and Global Forecasting (repeat)
Speaker: Florian Pappenberger (ECMWF)
20m
8:25 AM 8:45 AM
Causes of systematic errors forecasts of near-surface weather parameters and prospects for reducing them (repeat)
Speaker: Irina Sandu (ECMWF)
20m
8:45 AM 9:25 AM
Conversations over coffee: Meet ECMWF staff
40m
9:25 AM 9:45 AM
ECMWF Forecast Performance (repeat)
Speaker: Thomas Haiden (ECMWF)
20m
Thematic area: Novel products and services
Chair: Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
9:45 AM 10:05 AM
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 AM 10:25 AM
Smart Climate Hydropower Tool: An artificial intelligence based service for hydropower production seasonal forecast
Speaker: Paolo Mazzoli (GECOsistema srl)
20m
10:25 AM 10:45 AM
Towards a sub-seasonal agricultural drought forecast
Speaker: Thomas Leppelt (Deutscher Wetterdienst)
20m
10:45 AM 11:00 AM
Interactivity with a chance of clouds
Speaker: Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
15m
11:00 AM 12:00 PM
Lunch break
1h
Thematic area: Integrating new products in established processes / Research to Operations and Operations to Research
Chair: Estibaliz Gascon (ECMWF)
12:00 PM 12:20 PM
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 PM 12:40 PM
Radiosonde descent data: quality and next steps
Speaker: Matti Lehmuskero (Vaisala Oyj)
20m
12:40 PM 1:45 PM
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
1:45 PM 1:50 PM
Introduction to reforecasting and extended range forecasts
Speaker: Frederic Vitart (ECMWF)
5m
1:50 PM 2:20 PM
Conversations over coffee: 1) Meet your fellow university students and 2) Focus on reforcasting and extended range forecasts
30m
2:20 PM 3:00 PM
Machine Learning for Weather
Speaker: David Hall (Nvidia)
40m
Thursday, 4 June
7:15 AM 7:30 AM
Virtual arrival
15m
7:30 AM 7:35 AM
Day 4 Welcome and Housekeeping
Speaker: Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
5m
Morning session
Chair: Anna Ghelli (ECMWF)
7:35 AM 7:40 AM
Copernicus Services at ECMWF: An Overview
Speaker: Jean-Noel Thepaut (ECMWF)
5m
7:40 AM 8:00 AM
Recent activities of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and plans for the next phase
Speaker: Carlo Buontempo (ECMWF)
20m
8:00 AM 8:20 AM
CAMS, high-quality information about air composition in support of COVID-19 R&D
Speaker: Vincent-Henri Peuch (ECMWF)
20m
8:20 AM 8:40 AM
Forecasting floods and wildfires - overview of Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS) activities at ECMWF
Speaker: Fredrik Wetterhall (ECMWF)
20m
8:40 AM 9:00 AM
Data-driven climate communication - the example of the European State of the Climate 2019
Speaker: Freja Vamborg (ECMWF)
20m
9:00 AM 9:30 AM
Conversations over coffee: Meet your fellow Copernicus colleagues
30m
9:30 AM 10:00 AM
Developing applications for climate and meteorology in the CDS Toolbox - interactive session
Speaker: Edward Comyn-Platt (ECMWF)
30m
10:00 AM 10:20 AM
Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Sectoral Information System (SIS)
Speaker: Chiara Cagnazzo (ECMWF)
20m
10:20 AM 10:40 AM
Capgemini’s AsSISt airline maintenance service, powered by CAMS
Speakers: Carine Saüt (Capgemini), Nicolas Estival (Capgemini)
20m
10:40 AM 10:50 AM
ERA5-Land, dedicated land surface reanalysis
Speaker: Joaquin Munoz-Sabater (ECMWF)
10m
10:50 AM 11:00 AM
Concluding remarks and feedback poll
Speaker: ECMWF
10m

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