Annual Seminar 2022

Monday, 12 September
8:30 AM 9:00 AM
Registration

ECMWF

Reading
30m
9:00 AM 9:15 AM
Welcome
Speaker: Andy Brown (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
15m
Boundary layer and Turbulence
Chair: Peter Bechtold (ECMWF), Irina Sandu (ECMWF)
9:15 AM 9:45 AM
Towards More Unified Treatment of Turbulence, Shallow Convection, and Clouds: A Second-Order Scheme with Prognostic Scalar Variances
Speaker: Ekaterina Machulskaya (DWD)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
9:45 AM 10:15 AM
Hectometric-scale NWP model AROME
Speaker: Rachel Honnert (Météo-France)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
10:15 AM 10:35 AM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
20m
10:35 AM 11:05 AM
The Two-Energies Turbulence Scheme and Length Scale Formulations
Speaker: Ivan Bastak Duran (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
11:05 AM 11:35 AM
Modelling turbulence and boundary-layer processes in valleys and mountainous topography
Speaker: Brigitta Goger (ETH Zurich)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
11:35 AM 12:05 PM
Momentum transport across scales in complex cloudy atmospheres
Speaker: Louise Nuijens (TU Delft)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
12:05 PM 12:35 PM
Current experimental challenges in atmospheric boundary-layer research and their impact on parameterisations
Speaker: Joan Cuxart (University of the Balearic Islands)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
12:35 PM 2:00 PM
Lunch break

ECMWF

Reading
1h 25m
2:00 PM 3:10 PM
Poster session

ECMWF

Reading
1h 10m
3:10 PM 3:30 PM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
20m
Air sea exchange (process and extended range)
Chair: Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda (ECMWF), Jean Bidlot (ECMWF)
3:30 PM 4:00 PM
Challenging physics in seamless forecasts: Air-sea interactions in the tropics
Speaker: Charlotte DeMott (Colorado State University)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
4:00 PM 4:30 PM
Air sea exchange and wind wave interactions
Speaker: Jean Bidlot (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
4:30 PM 5:00 PM
Bubbles in breaking waves and their role in air-sea exchange
Speaker: Adrian Callaghan (Imperial College London)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
5:00 PM 6:00 PM
Icebreaker reception

ECMWF

Reading
1h
Tuesday, 13 September
Convection
Chair: Andy Brown (ECMWF), Richard Forbes (ECMWF)
9:00 AM 9:25 AM
35 years old or forever young?: aspects and structures seen with the IFS convection parametrisation and efforts towards 1-4 km resolutions
Speaker: Peter Bechtold (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
25m
9:25 AM 9:45 AM
How to represent deep convection at km-scale resolutions?
Speaker: Tobias Becker (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
20m
9:45 AM 10:15 AM
Lightning in forecasts and data assimilation
Speaker: Philippe Lopez (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
10:15 AM 10:50 AM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
35m
10:50 AM 11:20 AM
Parameterization approaches in ICON for the convective gray zone
Speaker: Günther Zängl (Deutscher Wetterdienst)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
11:20 AM 12:00 PM
Recent developments at Meteo-France in convection parametrization for Global Circulation Models and turbulence-convection interaction for Limited-Area Models
Speakers: Didier Ricard (CNRM (Météo-France / CNRS)), Jean-Marcel Piriou (Météo-France)

ECMWF

Reading
40m
12:00 PM 12:30 PM
A prognostic-stochastic and scale-adaptive cumulus convection closure for improved tropical variability and convective gray-zone representation in NOAA’s Unified Forecast System (UFS)
Speaker: Lisa Bengtsson (NOAA ESRL PSL)
Virtual presentation

Virtual presentation

30m
12:30 PM 2:00 PM
Lunch break

ECMWF

Reading
1h 30m
2:00 PM 3:10 PM
Poster session

ECMWF

Reading
1h 10m
3:10 PM 3:30 PM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
20m
Physics dynamics interface and gravity waves (stratosphere)
Chair: Filip Vana (ECMWF), Inna Polichtchouk (ECMWF)
3:30 PM 4:00 PM
Strong coupling between physics and dynamics: the end of the 1D model?
Speaker: Sylvie Malardel (Météo-France, La Réunion)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
4:00 PM 4:30 PM
Atmospheric energy spectra in kilometer-scale global simulations
Speaker: Claudia Stephan (MPI)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
4:30 PM 5:00 PM
Resolved gravity waves in the stratosphere: Impact of horizontal resolution increase from O(10 km) to O(1 km)
Speaker: Inna Polichtchouk (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
Wednesday, 14 September
Microphysics and clouds
Chair: Robin Hogan (ECMWF), Shannon Mason (ECMWF)
9:00 AM 9:30 AM
Challenges for modelling cloud and precipitation across scales
Speaker: Richard Forbes (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
9:30 AM 10:00 AM
Improving the representation of supercooled liquid water in the HARMONIE-AROME model
Speaker: Bjørg Jenny Engdahl (Norwegian Meteorological Institute)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
10:00 AM 10:30 AM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
30m
10:30 AM 11:00 AM
Cloud Microphysics Across Scales for Seamless Prediction
Speaker: Andrew Gettelman (NCAR)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
11:00 AM 11:30 AM
Microphysical controls on humidity, radiation and the tropical energy budget in global storm-resolving models
Speaker: Ann Kristin Naumann (MPI-M)
Virtual presentation

Virtual presentation

30m
11:30 AM 12:00 PM
Implementing double moment cloud microphysics into the regional configuration of the Unified Model
Speaker: Paul Field (University of Leeds)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
12:00 PM 12:30 PM
Seamless cloudspotting: constraining clouds and microphysical processes via data assimilation
Speaker: Mark Fielding (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
12:30 PM 2:00 PM
Lunch break

ECMWF

Reading
1h 30m
2:00 PM 3:00 PM
Poster session

ECMWF

Reading
1h
3:00 PM 3:30 PM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
30m
Radiation
Chair: Mark Fielding (ECMWF), Richard Forbes (ECMWF)
3:30 PM 4:00 PM
Challenges and recent progress in representing radiative processes in NWP models
Speaker: Robin Hogan (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
4:00 PM 4:30 PM
A dynamic approach to 3D radiative transfer in NWP models
Speaker: Bernhard Mayer (LMU)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
4:30 PM 5:00 PM
Single-band approach – a way to full cloud-radiation interaction
Speaker: Ján Mašek (CHMI)
Virtual presentation

Virtual presentation

30m
5:00 PM 5:30 PM
Unlocking the potential of spectrally resolved radiation observations for Earth System Model evaluation
Speaker: Helen Brindley (Imperial College London)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
5:30 PM 6:30 PM
Pre-dinner drinks

ECMWF

Reading
1h
6:30 PM 8:30 PM
Annual Seminar dinner

ECMWF

Reading
2h
Thursday, 15 September
Land surface and orographic drag
Chair: Gianpaolo Balsamo (ECMWF), Irina Sandu (ECMWF)
9:00 AM 9:30 AM
Land Surface Warm Processes for Seamless Forecasts
Speaker: Souhail Boussetta (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
9:30 AM 10:00 AM
Vegetation controls on land-atmosphere interactions
Speaker: Ana Bastos (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry)
Virtual presentation

Virtual presentation

30m
10:00 AM 10:30 AM
Estimating soil moisture and vegetation at multiple scales using satellite data assimilation over Europe
Speaker: Gabrielle De Lannoy (KU Leuven)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
10:30 AM 11:00 AM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
30m
11:00 AM 11:30 AM
Snow modelling and cryosphere-atmosphere interactions
Speaker: Gabriele Arduini (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
11:30 AM 12:00 PM
Challenges representing orographic drag in (Canadian) numerical prediction systems
Speaker: Ayrton Zadra (ECCC)
Virtual presentation

Virtual presentation

30m
12:00 PM 12:30 PM
Accounting for the complex nature of unresolved orography in models
Speaker: Annelize van Niekerk (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
12:30 PM 2:00 PM
Lunch break

ECMWF

Reading
1h 30m
Lessons learned from global km-scale simulations
Chair: Tobias Becker (ECMWF), Estibaliz Gascon (ECMWF)
2:00 PM 2:30 PM
Km-scale simulations with IFS and lessons learned for physics parametrization development
Speaker: Irina Sandu (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
2:30 PM 3:00 PM
Progress in Tropical Weather and Climate Prediction with Global km-scale Models
Speaker: Falko Judt (MPAS-NCAR)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
3:00 PM 3:30 PM
Km-scale climate simulations
Speaker: Daniel Klocke (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
3:30 PM 4:00 PM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
30m
Linear physics in data assimilation
Chair: Tony McNally (ECMWF)
4:00 PM 4:45 PM
Linearized physics at ECMWF: 25 years old and counting
Speakers: Marta Janiskova (ECMWF), Philippe Lopez (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
Friday, 16 September
Ensembles, stochastic physics and machine learning
Chair: Martin Leutbecher (ECMWF), Sarah-Jane Lock (ECMWF)
9:00 AM 9:30 AM
Ensemble forecasting and the representation of physical processes
Speaker: Sarah-Jane Lock (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
9:30 AM 10:00 AM
Model Uncertainty Representation in a Convection-Permitting Ensemble - SPP and SPPT in HarmonEPS
Speaker: Inger-Lise Frogner (Norwegian Meteorological Institute)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
10:00 AM 10:30 AM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
30m
10:30 AM 11:00 AM
Machine learning for parametrised physics
Speaker: Matthew Chantry (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
11:00 AM 11:30 AM
Stochastic parameterization of shallow convection – applications, performance and limitations
Speaker: Maike Ahlgrimm (DWD)

ECMWF

Reading
30m
11:30 AM 12:00 PM
Summary and discussion

ECMWF

Reading
30m

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