Workshop on data assimilation: initial conditions and beyond

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Wednesday, 9 April 2025 Speaker(s)
Registration and welcome
Gustav-Stresemann-Institut  (GSI)
Europäische Tagungs- und Bildungsstätte Bonn
Langer Grabenweg 68
53175 Bonn-Bad Godesberg
07:30 – 08:00 Registration
08:00 – 08:10 Welcome
Video recording
Florence Rabier (ECMWF)
Session 1: Algorithms, Observations, Predictability
Chairs: Elias Holm and Marcin Chrust
08:10 – 08:40 Data Assimilation: Initial conditions and beyond
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Video recording
Massimo Bonavita (ECMWF)
08:40 – 09:10 On the role of the tropics in global predictability
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Nedjeljka Zagar (University of Hamburg)
09:10 – 09:40 Towards higher spatial and temporal resolution data assimilation in ECMWF IFS
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Video recording
Emiliano Orlandi (ECMWF)
Žiga Zaplotnik (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts)
09:40 – 10:00 Coffee break
10:00 – 10:30 Data assimilation developments at DWD
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Video recording
Roland Potthast (Deutscher Wetterdienst)
10:30 – 11:00 New error covariances & DA formulations at Météo-France with OOPS
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Loïk Berre (Météo-France)
11:00 – 11:30 HIRLAM data assimilation: current status and vision
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Roger Randriamampianina (Norwegian Meteorological Institute)
11:30 – 12:00 Developments in Data Assimilation and use of Observations at the Met Office
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David Simonin (UK Met Office)
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
Session 1 continued: Algorithms, Observations, Predictability
Chairs: Sebastien Massart and Alban Farchi
13:00 – 13:30 Exploiting synergies in Composition and NWP data assimilation
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Antje Inness (ECMWF)
13:30 – 14:00 Coupling Earth System Components in Data Assimilation: Advantages and Key Challenges
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Philip Browne (ECMWF)
14:00 – 14:30 Group photo and coffee break
14:30 – 15:00 Present and future observational landscape in Numerical Weather Prediction
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Angela Benedetti
15:00 – 15:30 Observation uncertainty and information content
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Sarah Dance (University of Reading)
15:30 – 16:00 Predictability constraints on medium-range weather prediction
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George Craig (Meteorological Institute, LMU Munich)
16:30 – 18:30 Poster session

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Thursday, 10 April 2025 Speaker(s)
07:30 – 08:00 Arrival and registration
Gustav-Stresemann-Institut  (GSI)
Europäische Tagungs- und Bildungsstätte Bonn
Langer Grabenweg 68
53175 Bonn-Bad Godesberg
Session 2: Hybrid Data Assimilation - Machine Learning

Chairs: Ziga Zaplotnik and Emiliano Orlandi

08:00 – 08:30 Machine learning for data assimilation
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Video recording
Marc Bocquet (École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and ECMWF Fellow)
08:30 – 09:00 Development of an offline and online hybrid model for the Integrated Forecasting System
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Alban Farchi (ECMWF)
Marcin Chrust (ECMWF)
09:00 – 09:30 DWD's vision of a fully data-driven data assimilation approach
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Jan Keller (Deutscher Wetterdienst)
09:30 – 10:00 Coffee break
10:00 – 10:30 Hybrid data assimilation and machine learning
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Alan Geer (ECMWF)
10:30 – 11:00 Machine Learning for Data Assimilation at Météo-France
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Vincent Chabot (Meteo France)
11:00 – 11:30 Harmonizing Knowledge: Machine Learning Meets Data Assimilation
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Tijana Janjic (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
11:30 – 12:00 Harnessing machine learning for high resolution data assimilation
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Tomas Landelius (SMHI)
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
Session 2 continued: Hybrid Data Assimilation - Machine Learning
Chairs: Marc Bocquet and Massimo Bonavita
13:00 – 13:30 Computational Optimizations and Emulation of EDA Perturbed Members and Statistics
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Elias Holm (ECMWF)
Wei Pan (ECMWF)
13:30 – 14:00 Merging DA and ML at various degree: examples from DA for Arctic Sea ice and for ocean biogeochemistry
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Alberto Carrassi (University of Bologna)
14:00 – 14:30

Virtual presentation

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 15:30 RIKEN’s activities to integrate DA and AI/ML
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Takemasa Miyoshi (RIKEN)
15:30 – 16:00 AI-DOP: Learning a medium-range weather forecast directly from observations
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Mihai Alexe (ECMWF)
16:00 – 17:00 Panel discussion