The joint 27^th ALADIN Wk & HIRLAM ASM 2017 was held on the premises of the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki - Dynamicum - (see How to find FMI, see also the map over Dynamicum) during the first week of April 2017 :

• 3-6 April :joint Wk& ASM,
• 4 April late afternoon : LTM meeting
• 5 April evening : excursion and dinner (see the map)
• 7 April : HMG/CSSI meeting.

 Agenda and list of participants

Welcoming address by Yrjö Viisanen (FMI Head of Research), Dynamicum meeting room
HIRLAM and ALADIN overviews by the PMs and status of C-SRNWP by the coordinator

 Recorded sessions on youtube

• Opening session: https://youtu.be/ZBiPOgxBMdI
• Plenary session 1 on DA : https://youtu.be/SiFzVg2A-kI
• Plenary session 1 on DA (cont) : https://youtu.be/j5h-HRzvCuA
• Plenary session 2 on Dynamics : https://youtu.be/d4BVLyTrQq4
• Plenary session 3 on Physics : https://youtu.be/rWaK5EWakak
• Plenary session 3 on Physics (cont) : https://youtu.be/ed87zLF0nbQ
• Plenary session 4 on Quality, User and climate aspects : https://youtu.be/GXHK5ZYWuHU
• Plenary session 4 on Quality, User and climate aspects (cont) : https://youtu.be/CaQcpcr1z2c
• Plenary session 5 on Surface : https://youtu.be/stmYiz_XZwg
• Plenary session 6 on System and Scalability issues : https://youtu.be/wpp6xXAYTPI
• Plenary session 6 on System and Scalability issues (cont) : https://youtu.be/yvTWGThDJI8
• Plenary session 7 on EPS : https://youtu.be/Y3fXeUYn1Oo
• Plenary session 7 on EPS (cont): https://youtu.be/rGHF8U5cstU
• Plenary closing session: https://youtu.be/0KR6Bj84-dI

 Presentations : link to the pdf of the presentations

• Plenary opening session
  • Opening address : Yrjö Viisanen (FMI Head of Research)
  • Recent HIRLAM highlights : Jeanette Onvlee
  • ALADIN status overview : Piet Termonia
  • Status of the EUMETNET C-SRNWP project : Balazs Szintai
• Plenary session 1: Data Assimilation
  • Progress and plans of global data assimilation at MF : Claude Fischer
  • HIRLAM atmospheric data assimilation : Roger Randriamampianina
  • The latest data assimilation activities in LACE countries : Mate Mile
  • Appropriate Bmatrix for BlendVar : Antonin Bucanek
  • OOPS developments at ECMWF : Roel Stappers
  • Tests on cloud initialisation with AROME over Austria and Germany : Florian Meier
  • Cloud (NWCSAF) assimilation in Harmonie : Erik Gregow
  • Assimilation of ATOVS and GNSS ZTD observations in Aemet : Jana Sanchez Arriola
  • Assimilation of GNSS ZTD from the NGAA processing centre : Martin Ridal
  • An update on observation processing : Eoin Whelan
  • General discussion
• Plenary session 2 : Dynamics
  • The dynamics core program : Steven Caluwaerts
  • Current Research and Developpment in dynamics at Meteo-France : Ludovic Auger
  • LACE-problems in dynamics & coupling and some solutions : Petra Smolikova
  • Local semi-implicit scheme : Filip Vana
  • General discussion
• Plenary session 3: Physics
  • Progress and plans in the ARPEGE and AROME models physics : Francois Bouyssel
  • ALARO status overview : Neva Pristov
  • Cloud and convection in Alaro-1 : Luc Gerard
  • Convective Precipitation in HARMONIE-AROME : Lisa Bengtsson
  • Current development of the cloud microphysics within MetCoOp : Karl-Ivar Ivarsson
  • 1D and 3D evaluation of several options for PBL schemes with a focus on low cloud : Eric Bazile
  • Experiences with sub-km HARMONIE-AROME : Xiaohua Yang
  • Comparison of HIRLAM radiation fluxes to surface observations : Laura Rontu
  • General discussion
• Plenary session 4: Quality, User and climate aspects
  • HARP news : Christoph Zingerle
  • Status on Verification and Quality Assurance in HIRLAM-C : Bent Sass
  • Operational HARMONIE-AROME issues (clouds and precipitation) : Sander Tijm
  • High-resolution operational ALADIN System for forecasting meteotsunamis : Martina Tudor
  • The Reanalyses and Data produced in UERRA : Per Unden
  • Studying the local microclimate in Gent : Steven Caluwaerts
  • Met Eireann 35-year regional reanalysis : Emily Gleeson
  • General discussion
• Plenary session 5: Surface
  • Overview of HIRLAM surface progress and plans : Patrick Samuelsson
  • Preliminary tests of the CMC ALARO-1 coupled to SURFEX-8 using CY43T2 over Belgium : Rafiq Hamdi
  • FLake in Harmonie : Ekaterina Kurzeneva
  • Lake Surface Water Temperature autocorrelation functions : Margarita Choulga
  • Impact of the Sea Surface Temperature in operational forecast using ALADIN System : Martina Tudor
  • Using wave forecast model to estimate the accuracy of surface wind fields in the Baltic Sea : Laura Tuomi
  • General discussion
• Plenary session 6: System and Scalability issues
  • System status: about IFS cycles, about OOPS : Claude Fischer
  • Harmonie-Arome system: Status and future : Daniel Santos Munoz
  • LAM features in the ATLAS framework : Daan Degrauwe
  • Single precision IFS : Filip Vana
  • Recent progress on the ACRANEB2 dwarf from the ESCAPE project , Part I : Per Berg
  • Recent progress on the ACRANEB2 dwarf from the ESCAPE project, Part II : Jacob Weismann Poulsen
  • ESCAPE status on ACRANEB2: Code efficiency tests : Bent Hansen Sass
  • General discussion
• Plenary session 7: EPS
  • Developments on HarmonEPS and GLAMEPS : Inger-Lise Frogner
  • LAM-EPS activities in LACE : Martin Bellus
  • Experiences and challenges with MetCOoP EPS : Ulf Andrae
  • RMI-EPS: a prototype convection-permitting EPS for Belgium : Geert Smet
  • Stochastic perturbation of partial tendencies in AROME : Clemens Wastl
  • Surface perturbations in HarmonEPS : Andrew Singleton
  • The growth of ensemble spread in mesoscale NWP model due to LB and IC perturbations : Jure Cedilnik
  • General discussion
• Plenary closing session
  • Outcomes of the meeting
  • Announce of the 2018 meeting

 Working groups and side meetings

• WG on Recent upper-air DA issues (Roger Randriamampianina)
• Surface side meeting on Surface processes and data assimilation (Patrick Samuelsson)
• WG on clouds, radiation and aerosol, (minutes on HIRLAM wiki, for authorized access only) (Laura Rontu)
• WG on System
• Verification/HARP side meeting (Bent Hansen Sass, Christoph Zingerle)

 Posters

• Abdenour Ambar : Desert dusts modeling in AROME: Contribution of physical parameterizations at convective scale
• Florian Meier : National poster Austria
• Alex Deckmyn : National poster Belgium
• Boryana Tsenova : News in numerical weather prediction in Bulgaria
• Rilka Valcheva : The Impact of Climate Change (until 2050) on the potential of renewable energy sources (wind and solar radiation) for the territory of Bulgaria
• Tomislav Kovacic : ALARO at 4 km forecast post processing using Kalman filter
• Iris Odak Plenkovic : Probabilistic Wind Speed Predictions with an Analog Ensemble
• Martina Tudor : ALADIN in Croatia
• Petra Smolikova : Numerical Weather Prediction@ Czech Hydrometerological Institute
• Kristian Pagh Nielsen : ESCAPE: Optimizing physics subroutines for multithreaded
• Erik Gregow : Cloud (NWCSAF) assimilation in Harmonie (Note: In case of no oral presentation)
• Markku Kangas : Mast Verification
• Patricia Pottier : The NWP systems at Meteo-France
• Viktoria Homonnai : Low cloud experiments with AROME over Hungary
• Balazs Szintai : NWP at the Hungarian Meteorological Service
• Emily Gleeson : Poster on radiation work
• Eoin Whelan : Operational poster for Ireland
• Siham Sbii : Status of numerical weather prediction in Morocco
• Yurii Batrak, Bin Cheng : Sea ice mass balance in the Arctic Ocean
• Roger Randriamampianina : Impact of Atmospheric Motion Vectors on NWP over high-latitudes and the Arctic
• Bogdan Bochenek : Polish national poster
• Maria Monteiro : ALADIN – Portuguese Technical and Scientific Activities
• Raluca Iordache : ALADIN activities in Romania
• Maria Derkova : ALADIN related activities @SHMU (page1, page2)
• Benedikt Strajnar : ALADIN in Slovenia 2017
• Javier Calvo : AEMET operational suit: HARMONIE Regular Cycle of Reference for cycle 40
• Angeles Hernandez : Assimilation of Atmospheric Motion Vectors in AEMET
• Daniel Martin & Gema Morales : Use of Ceilometer Data for Cloud Validation
• Klaus Zimmermann : OBSMON: New Developments for UERRA and HARMONIE
• Zied Sassi : ALADIN Related Activities in Tunisia
• Guser Alper : NWP Related Activities in Turkey

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 Instructions for real time video streaming )

This link allowed you to follow the sessions on a real-time basis : https://www.youtube.com/user/ilmatieteenlaitos .

For accommodation, please consult the instructions for booking hotels (this material was prepared by FMI planner Heidi Aaltonen, heidi.aaltonen"at"fmi.fi).

it is still possible to register to the Wk/ASM, including your proposal for poster before 24 March 2017. No additional presentations can be added to the agenda.