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Wednesday, 9 April 2025
07:30 to 08:00 Registration
Session 1: Algorithms, Observations, Predictability
Chair: TBD
08:00 to 08:30 Data Assimilation: Initial conditions and beyond
Speaker: Massimo Bonavita (ECMWF)
08:30 to 09:00 On the role of the tropics in global predictability
Speaker: Nedjeljka Zagar (University of Hamburg)
09:00 to 09:30 Towards higher spatial and temporal resolution data assimilation in ECMWF IFS
Speaker: Emiliano Orlandi
Speaker: Ziga Zaplotnik
09:30 to 10:00 Coffee break
10:00 to 10:30 Title TBC
Speaker: Christina Koepken-Watts (DWD)
10:30 to 11:00 Title TBC
Speaker: Loik Berrre (Meteo France)
11:00 to 11:30 HIRLAM data assimilation: current status and vision
Speaker: Roger Randriamampianina (Norwegian Meteorological Institute)
11:30 to 12:00 Developments in Data Assimilation and use of Observations at the Met Office
Speaker: David Simonin (UK Met Office)
12:00 to 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 to 13:30 Exploiting synergies in Composition and NWP data assimilation
Speaker: Antje Inness (ECMWF)
13:30 to 14:00 Coupling Earth System Components in Data Assimilation: Advantages and Key Challenges
Speaker: Phil Browne (ECMWF)
14:00 to 14:30 Coffee break
14:30 to 15:00 Present and future observational landscape in Numerical Weather Prediction
Speaker: Angela Benedetti (ECMWF)
15:00 to 15:30 Observation uncertainty and information content
Speaker: Sarah Dance (University of Reading)
15:30 to 16:00 Predictability constraints on medium-range weather prediction
Speaker: George Craig (Meteorological Institute, LMU Munich)
16:00 to 17:00 Poster session

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Thursday, 9 April 2025
Session 2: Hybrid Data assimilation-Machine learning

Chair: TBC

08:00 to 08:00 Machine learning for data assimilation
Speaker: Marc Bocquet (Ecole des Ponts ParisTech)
08:30 to 09:00 Development of an offline and online hybrid model for the Integrated Forecasting System
Speaker: Alban Farchi (CEREA, ENPC)
Speaker: Marcin Chrust (ECMWF)
09:00 to 09:30 DWD's vision of a fully data-driven data assimilation approach
Speaker: Jan Keller (Deutscher Wetterdienst)
09:30 to 10:00 Coffee break
10:00 to 10:30 Hybrid data assimilation and machine learning
Speaker: Alan Geer (ECMWF)
10:39 to 11:00 Title TBC
Speaker: Vincent Chabot (Meteo France)
11:00 to 11:30 Harmonizing Knowledge: Machine Learning Meets Data Assimilation
Speaker: Tijana Janjic (MIDS, KU Eichstaett-Ingolstadt)
11:30 to 12:00 Harnessing machine learning for high resolution data assimilation
Speaker: Tomas Landelius (SMHI)
12:00 to 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 to 13:30 Computational Optimizations and Emulation of EDA Perturbed Members and Statistics
Speaker: Elias Holm (ECMWF)
Speaker: Wei Pan (ECMWF)
13:30 to 14:00 Merging DA and ML at various degree: examples from DA for Arctic Sea ice and for ocean biogeochemistry
Speaker: Alberto Carrassi (University of Bologna)
Speaker: Charlotte Durand (CEREA - Ecole des Ponts)
Speaker: Chris Jones (University of North Carolina)
Speaker: Flavia Porro (University of Bologna)
14:00 to 14:30 Emerging role of machine learning in the data assimilation pipeline at NOAA
Speaker: Sergey Frolov (NOAA PSL)
14:30 to 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 to 15:30 RIKEN’s activities to integrate DA and AI/ML
Speaker: Takemasa Miyoshi (RIKEN)
15:30 to 16:00 AI-DOP: Learning a medium-range weather forecast directly from observations
Speaker: Mihai Alexe (ECMWF)
16:00 to 17:00 Panel discussion