The 2020 DAsKIT Working Days will be joint together with the LACE DAWD during 14-16 September 2020.

Due to the actual public health constraints, the meeting will be organized by video-conf (S4B Skype for Business platform).

 Agenda and list of participants

 Presentations

• National presentations :
  • Slovenia: status
  • Slovakia: status
  • Romania:
  • Hungary: status
  • Czech Republic: status
  • Croatia: status
  • Austria: status
  • Algeria: status
  • Belgium: status
  • Bulgaria: status
  • Morocco: status
  • Poland: status
  • Portugal: status
  • Tunisia: status
  • Turkey: status
• Invited talks
  • Status of HIRLAM upper-air DA activities (R. Randriamampianina)
  • Status of OPLACE (A. Trojáková): presentation
• Specific talks
  • Impact of the variational assimilation of ground-based GNSS zenith total delay into AROME-Morocco model (Fatima Hdidou): presentation
  • VarBC spin up and assimilation of Slovenian GNSS ZTD observations (B. Strajnar): presentation
  • Improving heavy rainfall forecasts by assimilating surface precipitation in the convect-ive scale model AROME: A case study of the Mediterranean event of November 4, 2017 (Zahra Sahlaoui): presentation
• Session on upper-air data assimilation: radar data assimilation
  • ALARO tests of radar observation operator (A. Trojákova): presentation
  • Processing of radar reflectivities in screening (A. BuÄ Ã¡nek): presentation
  • Assimilation of radial winds from radars (K. ÄŒatloÅ¡ová) : presentation
  • Comparison of Mode-S EHS vs. MRAR (K. ÄŒatloÅ¡ová): presentation
  • Investigation of the effect of Hungarian and Czech MODE-S dataset during data assimilation (K. Szanyi): presentation
  • Update on AROME-RUC (ZAMG) (F. Meier): presentation
  • SURFEX/SODA activities at ZAMG (S. Schneider, J. Vura) : presentation
  • SEKF Surface data assimilation experiments with cy40 AROME-SURFEX model (H. Tóth and B. Szintai): presentation
• Practical session
  • OBSMON adaptation and re-compilation to read local ODB data files (I. Dehmous): presentation
  • BATOR adaptation to read SAPP BUFR SYNOP data (Y. Cengiz): presentation
• Session on surface data assimilation
  • SURFEX/SODA activities at ZAMG (S. Schneider, J. Vura): presentation
  • SEKF Surface data assimilation experiments with cy40 AROME-SURFEX model (H. Tóth and B. Szintai) : presentation
• Final discussion
  • LACE DAWD & DAsKIT – Summary of discussions (B. Strajnar & M. Monteiro) : presentation
  • DAsKIT plans for 2021: presentation

 Summary report

• Summary report of the 2020 Joint LACE Data Assimilation & DAsKIT Working Days, video-conference, 14-16 September : summary report