Annual Seminar 2023

Monday, 4 September
13:15 13:45
Registration and coffee
Weather Room

Weather Room

ECMWF

30m
13:45 14:00
Welcome and opening
Speaker: Florence Rabier (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
15m
Session 1: Setting the scene
Chair: Bill Bell (ECMWF), Hans Hersbach (ECMWF)
14:00 14:15
Seminar walk through
Speaker: Samantha Burgess (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
15m
14:15 15:00
Introduction to reanalysis
Speaker: Dick Dee (Planet-A Consulting)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
15:10 15:45
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
35m
15:45 16:30
Reanalysis user base and applications
Speaker: Chiara Cagnazzo (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
16:30 17:15
Towards Earth-system reanalysis
Speaker: Patricia de Rosnay (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
17:15 17:40
Express poster presentations

ECMWF

Reading
25m
17:40 19:00
Poster session and ice breaker
Weather Room

Weather Room

1h 20m
Tuesday, 5 September
Session 2: Overview of reanalysis activities
Chair: Hans Hersbach (ECMWF)
09:15 10:00
Global atmospheric reanalysis
Speaker: Amal EL Akkraoui (NASA-SSAI)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
10:00 10:45
ECMWF reanalysis activities: from research to operations
Speaker: Hans Hersbach (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
10:45 11:15
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
30m
11:15 12:00
Ocean reanalysis
Speaker: Hao Zuo (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
12:00 12:45
The Land Surface in Earth System Reanalysis
Speaker: Rolf Reichle (NASA GMAO)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
12:45 14:00
Lunch

ECMWF

Reading
1h 15m
Session 2: Overview of reanalysis activities (cont.)
Chair: Antje Inness (ECMWF), Patricia de Rosnay (ECMWF)
14:00 14:45
Hydrological reanalysis
Speaker: Christel Prudhomme (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
14:45 15:30
Atmospheric composition reanalysis
Speaker: Kazuyuki Miyazaki (NASA JPL)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
15:30 16:00
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
30m
Session 2: Overview of reanalysis activities (cont.)
Chair: Hans Hersbach (ECMWF)
16:00 16:45
Overview of reanalysis activities: Regional Reanalysis
Speaker: Harald Schyberg (Norwegian Meteorological Institute)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
16:45 17:30
Centennial reanalysis
Speaker: Laura Slivinski (CIRES/NOAA)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
Wednesday, 6 September
Session 3: Data assimilation methodology
Chair: Patrick Laloyaux (ECMWF)
09:15 10:00
Overview of data assimilation methods
Speaker: Femke Vossepoel (Delft University of Technology)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
10:00 10:45
Diversity in reanalysis products and opportunities for collaboration
Speaker: Sergey Frolov (National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
10:45 11:15
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
30m
Session 4: Observations
Chair: Bill Bell (ECMWF), Paul Poli (ECMWF/C3S)
11:15 12:00
To what extent are reanalyses actually constrained by observations?
Speaker: Tony McNally (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
12:00 12:45
Data rescue and reprocessing
Speaker: Paul Poli (ECMWF/C3S)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
12:45 14:00
Lunch

ECMWF

Reading
1h 15m
Session 5: Historical gridded forcing fields
Chair: Hans Hersbach (ECMWF)
14:00 14:45
Reconstruction of sea-surface temperature and sea-ice datasets
Speaker: Nick Rayner (Met Office)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
14:45 15:30
Towards consistent representation of boundary forcing on reanalyses and reforecasts
Speaker: Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
15:30 16:00
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
30m
Session 6: Validation and inter-comparison of reanalyses
Chair: Antje Inness (ECMWF)
16:00 16:45
Evaluation of processes and inter-annual variability in global atmospheric reanalyses
Speaker: Michaela Hegglin (University of Reading)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
16:45 17:30
Evaluation of ocean reanalyses
Speaker: Marie Drevillon (Mercator Ocean)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
17:30 18:30
Pre-dinner drinks

ECMWF

Reading
1h
18:30 20:30
Annual Seminar dinner

ECMWF

Reading
2h
Thursday, 7 September
Sesssion 7: Challenges and research
Chair: Bill Bell (ECMWF), Patrick Laloyaux (ECMWF)
09:15 10:00
The treatment of observational and model biases in reanalysis
Speaker: Bill Bell (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
10:00 10:45
Limitation of reanalysis in data-scarce regions
Speaker: Maureen Wanzala (UN World Food Programme)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
10:45 11:15
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
30m
11:15 12:00
Palaeoclimate reconstruction using data assimilation: the ModE-RA data set
Speaker: Stefan Brönnimann (University of Bern)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
12:00 12:45
Ocean sea-ice coupled data assimilation
Speaker: François Counillon (NERSC/UoB)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
12:45 14:00
Lunch

ECMWF

Reading
1h 15m
Session 7: Challenges and research (cont.)
Chair: tbc
14:00 14:45
Reanalysis: the bedrock of machine learning of the Earth system
Speaker: Matthew Chantry (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
14:45 15:30
Exploiting reanalyses in studies and services related to climatic trends
Speaker: Adrian Simmons (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
15:30 16:00
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
30m
Session 7: Challenges and research (cont.)
Chair: Patrick Laloyaux (ECMWF), Paul Poli (ECMWF/C3S)
16:00 16:45
Extremes in reanalysis and observational products
Speaker: Markus Donat (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
16:45 17:30
Reanalysis production, monitoring and quality assurance
Speaker: Dinand Schepers (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
Friday, 8 September
Session 8: Towards consistent Earth
Chair: Patricia de Rosnay (ECMWF)
09:15 10:00
Improving land-atmosphere data assimiliation coupling in future reanalyses
Speaker: Clara Draper (NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration))

ECMWF

Reading
45m
10:00 10:45
Integrated carbon cycle in reanalyses
Speaker: Anna Agusti-Panareda (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
10:45 11:15
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
30m
11:15 12:00
Development of coupled atmosphere-ocean data assimilation: Achievements and a perspective
Speaker: Yosuke Fujii (JMA/MRI)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
12:00 12:45
Exploiting interface observations in a coupled reanalysis system
Speaker: Philip Browne (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
45m
12:45 13:15
Discussion and final remarks

ECMWF

Reading
30m

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