Following the success of last years organization, the DAsKIT WD this year was also partly joint with the LACE Data Assimilation Working Days (DAWD): the program started with a joint session were each country presented its local status/progress report; then the working days were separated and just joint again for a final joint discussion on conclusions and plans.

 Agenda and list of participants

 Common block of status/progress presentations

• Algeria
• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Morocco
• Poland
• Portugal
• Tunisia
• Austria
• Croatia
• Czech Rep.
• Hungary
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Romenia

 Invited talks

• Status of SAPP in Met Éirean
• Status of OPLACE system
• Recent progress in HIRLAM upper-air data assimilation

 DAsKIT talks & practical notes

• 2019 DAsKIT: surface DA validation/diagnostics
• OBSMON implementation
• Screening & Monitoring exercises
• 2019 DAsKIT: Exercise on AMDAR pre-processing
• AMDAR Issue
• Overview on the AMDAR action in Morocco
• 2019 DAsKIT: 3D-Var basic KIT (CY40T1)
• Background Error Covariance Modelling
• AROME-Tunisie 3Dvar system: B matrix computation & diagnostics
• HARP: current status

 Final discussion

• 2019 DAsKIT: joint discussion
• 2019 DAsKIT status, conclusions and plans

 Summary report of the 2019 DAsKIT WD

 Next steps

• Coming events:
  • 2020 DAsKIT will be host by ZAMG in Vienna, Austria
  • Next DAsKIT video-conf will take place in December 2019
• DAsKIT goals for 2019-2020:
  • finish the tuning and joint validation of local surface DA cycling (CY40T1 and CY43T2)
  • step_by_step move to a combined solution of surface+3D-Var DA at CY43T2.