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Wednesday, 9 April 2025
07:00 to 07:45 Registration
Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV)
Robert-Schuman-Platz 1
53175 Bonn
Update from major modelling consortia
07:45 to 07:55 Welcome
Speaker: Andy Brown (ECMWF)
07:55 to 08:20 Ancillary data for land modelling within ecLand: status and perspectives
Speaker: Souhail Boussetta (ECMWF)
08:20 to 08:45 Ancillary Data in the Momentum Partnership: Modelling Across Scales
Speaker: John Edwards (Met Office)
08:45 to 09:10 TBC
09:10 to 09:35 Advancing Forecast Accuracy in NWP and Climate Models through Unified Geospatial Data Processing
Speaker: Jürgen Helmert (Deutscher Wetterdienst)
09:35 to 10:00 Coffee break
10:00 to 10:25 Ancillary data for numerical prediction models at Météo-France
Speaker: Patrick LE MOIGNE (CNRM - Météo-France)
10:25 to 10:50 Utilizing Observational Land Data for Advancing NOAA Unified Forecast System Applications
Speaker: Fanglin Yang (NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC)
10:50 to 11:15 Towards data-driven development of land surface model
Speaker: Xingjie Lu (Sun Yat-sen University)
11:15 to 11:40 ACCORD experience with ESA-CCI land cover and new efforts with ML-based physiography
Speaker: Patrick Samuelsson (SMHI)
11:40 to 13:00 Lunch break
State of the art of data and future capabilities of data providers
13:00 to 13:25 Insights into the soil and surface with Planetary Variables
Speaker: Thomas Frederikse (Planet)
13:25 to 13:50 Copernicus Land Monitoring Service: Portfolio OverView
Speaker: Nadine Gobron (European Commission Joint Research Centre)
13:50 to 14:15 The EUMETSAT SAF Network data for land surface modelling
Speaker: Lothar Schüller (EUMETSAT)
14:15 to 14:45 Coffee break
14:45 to 15:10 ESA’s Climate Change Initiative: how space data support our understanding of climate change
Speaker: Clement Albergel (ESA Climate Office)
15:10 to 15:35 The NASA Earth Science Data and Information Systems (ESDIS) Project: The world's largest catalog of public Earth Observation data
Speaker: Alexey Shiklomanov (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
15:35 to 16:00 Leveraging C3S ECV Datasets for Earth System Modeling: Insights and Applications.
Speaker: Joaquin Munoz-Sabater
16:30 to 17:30 Poster session

Gustav-Stresemann-Institut  (GSI)
Europäische Tagungs- und Bildungsstätte Bonn
Langer Grabenweg 68
53175 Bonn-Bad Godesberg


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Thursday, 10 April 2025
07:15 to 07:45 Arrival and registration
Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV)
Robert-Schuman-Platz 1
53175 Bonn

Breakout sessions
07:45 to 08:00 Breakout session introduction
Speaker: Christoph Rüdiger (ECMWF)
08:00 to 09:30 Breakout session 1 on surface ancillaries

Chair: Christoph Rüdiger

09:30 to 10:00 Coffee break
10:00 to 11:30 Breakout session 2 on hydrology ancillaries

Chair: Anne Voerhof

11:30 to 12:45 Lunch break
12:45 to 14:15 Breakout session 3 on anthropogenic ancillaries

Chair: Martin Best

14:15 to 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 to 15:30 Wrap-up