The third meeting of the Expert Team on surface processes took place one day before the ECMWF Annual Seminar and was kindly hosted at ECMWF thanks to Patricia de Rosnay and Gianpaolo Balsamo. Each consortium had at least one representative. This has allowed a rather comprehensive review of the activities among Europe. Discussions concerned the use of the COLOBOC/SRNWP Data pool that has been set-up and maintained by COSMO, on activities related to the improvement of the lake databases and climatologies, and on future common activities. Andras Horanyi (previous PM of the C-SRNWP programme) provided us some useful information about the future of the SRNWP Programme and also encouraged us to provide inputs for the next EWGLAM/SRNWP meetings (titles for the presentations and also a title for the review talk).

The presentations given during the meeting are available below :

• Introduction (Jean-Francois Mahfouf, MF, LS-ET Coordinator)
• Presentation of COSMO activities (Martin Lange, DWD)
• Presentation of ALADIN activities (Rafiq Hamdi, RMI)
• Presentation of ALADIN/LACE activities (Jean-François Mahfouf, MF)
• Presentation of HIRLAM activities (Laura Rontu, FMI)
• Presentation of MetOffice activities (Martin Best, Gabriel Rooney UKMO)
• Presentation of ECMWF LSM activities (Gianapolo Balsamo/Souhail Boussetta, ECMWF)
• Presentations of ECMWF LDAS activities :
• ECMWF Land Surface Data Assimilation System activities (Patricia de Rosnay, ECMWF)
• Evaluation of remotely sensed and modelled soil mositure products using global ground-based in situ observations (Clement Albergel, ECMWF)
• The SMOS monitoring suite at ECMWF (Joaquin Munoz-Sabater, ECMWF)

They can also be found on the following ECMWF web page :

http://www.ecmwf.int/newsevents/meetings/workshops/2011/SRNWP/index.html