Annual Seminar 2026
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| Monday, 14 September 2026 | Speaker(s) | |
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| Arrival and opening | ||
| 13:00 – 13:30 | Registration and coffee | |
| 13:30 – 13:45 | Welcome and opening |
Director of Science and Innovation (ECMWF)
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| 13:45 – 14:00 | Practicalities |
Tony McNally (ECMWF)
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| Session 1 | ||
| 14:00 – 14:45 | An overview of atmospheric Data Assimilation |
Jean-François Caron (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
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| 14:40 – 15:30 | Developments in ocean data assimilation and coupling to the atmosphere |
Philip Browne (ECMWF)
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| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 – 16:45 | Overview of land data assimilation and land-atmosphere coupling options for NWP |
Clara Draper (CIRES / NOAA ESRL PSD)
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| 16:45 – 17:30 | Coupling methodology approaches and the example of application to land / atmosphere interactions |
Christoph Herbert
Sebastien Massart (ECMWF)
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| Posters and drinks reception | ||
| 17:30 – 17:55 | Express poster presentations | |
| 18:00 – 19:30 | Poster session and drinks reception | |
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| Tuesday, 15 September 2026 | Speaker(s) | |
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| Session 2 | ||
| 09:00 – 09:45 | Adapting Data Assimilation methods for Atmospheric Composition |
Antje Inness (ECMWF)
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| 09:45 – 10:30 | Adapting Data Assimilation methods to reanalysis |
Žiga Zaplotnik (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts)
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| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Uncertainty characterisation in Data Assimilation |
Loïk Berre (Météo-France)
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| 11:45 – 12:30 | Approaches for diagnosing random and systematic errors in observations |
Sarah Dance (University of Reading)
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| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch break | |
| 13:30 – 14:15 | Accounting for systematic model error in Data Assimilation |
Patrick Laloyaux (ECMWF)
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| 14:15 – 15:00 | The particular challenges of Data Assimilation for Tropical Cyclones |
Giovanna De Chiara (ECMWF)
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| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 – 16:15 | Operational Data Assimilation systems for time-critical applications |
Emiliano Orlandi (ECMWF)
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| 16:15 – 17:00 | Audience discussion | |
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| Wednesday, 16 September 2026 | Speaker(s) | |
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| Session 1 | ||
| 09:00 – 09:45 | MTG and EPS-SG, Europe’s most advanced operational satellites for Numerical Weather Prediction |
Dorothee Coppens (EUMETSAT)
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| 09:45 – 10:30 | DANTEX: Advancing the exploitation of Europe's future satellite observations in coupled data assimilation |
Philippe Goryl (ESA)
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| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | The forensics of CAL/VAL of new satellites observations |
Chris Burrows (ECMWF)
David Duncan (ECMWF)
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| 11:45 – 12:30 | The assimilation of current and future in-situ observations |
Magnus Lindskog (ECMWF)
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| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch break | |
| 13:30 – 14:15 | Recovering historical observations for climate reanalysis |
Bill Bell (ECMWF)
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| 14:15 – 15:00 | When observations confront highly nonlinear physical processes |
Marta Janiskova (Former ECMWF)
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| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 – 16:15 | Assessing the value and impact of the current observing system |
Chiara Piccolo (UK Met Office)
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| 16:15 – 17:00 | Predicting the impact of future observing systems: guiding satellite deployment and SOFF |
Katie Lean (ECMWF)
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| 17:00 – 17:30 | Audience discussion | |
| Seminar dinner | ||
| 17:30 – 18:00 | Pre-dinner drinks | |
| 18:00 – 20:00 | Dinner | |
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| Thursday, 17 September 2026 | Speaker(s) | |
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| Session 4 | ||
| 09:00 – 09:45 | Emulating background errors for Data Assimilation with ML |
Wei Pan (ECMWF)
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| 09:45 – 10:30 | Accelerating Data Assimilation systems with ML |
Selime Gurol (CERFACS)
Vincent Chabot (Météo France)
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| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Modelling interface observations with ML |
Iris de Gélis (Estellus-MW and Observatoire de Paris)
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| 11:45 – 12:30 | Hybrid ML coupled Data Assimilation of interface observations |
Alan Geer (ECMWF)
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| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch break | |
| 13:30 – 14:15 | Latent space Data Assimilation |
Boštjan Melinc (University of Ljubljana)
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| 14:15 – 15:00 | Using Data Assimilation and ML to correct forecast systems with observations |
Alban Farchi (ECMWF)
Marcin Chrust (ECMWF)
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| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 – 16:15 | Emulating the full Data Assimilation process with ML |
Jan Keller (Deutscher Wetterdienst)
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| 16:15 – 17:00 | End-to-end real-time weather forecasting with ML |
TBC
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| Friday, 18 September 2026 | Speaker(s) | |
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| Session 5 | ||
| 09:00 – 09:45 | The prospects for future ML climate reanalysis directly from observations |
Peter Lean (ECMWF)
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| 09:45 – 10:30 | The future of Data Assimilation in the AI-revolution |
Steve Penny (Sofar Ocean)
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| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Final audience discussion | |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Discussion and conclusion | |