Workshop on ancillary data for land surface and Earth system modelling

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Wednesday, 9 April 2025 Speaker(s)
07:00 – 07:45 Registration
Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV)
Robert-Schuman-Platz 1
53175 Bonn
Update from major modelling consortia
Chairs: Christoph Rudiger (ECMWF), Eleanor Blyth (UKCEH)
07:45 – 07:55 Welcome
Andy Brown (ECMWF)
07:55 – 08:20 Ancillary data for land modelling within ecLand: status and perspectives
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Souhail Boussetta (ECMWF)
08:20 – 08:45 Ancillary Data in the Momentum Partnership: Modelling Across Scales
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John Edwards (Met Office)
08:45 – 09:10 Community Land Model ancillaries

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Rosie Fisher (CICERO)
09:10 – 09:35 Advancing Forecast Accuracy in NWP and Climate Models through Unified Geospatial Data Processing
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Jürgen Helmert (Deutscher Wetterdienst)
09:35 – 10:10 Coffee break
10:10 – 10:35 Ancillary data for numerical prediction models at Météo-France

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Patrick Le Moigne (CNRM - Météo-France)
10:35 – 11:00 Towards data-driven development of land surface model
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Xingjie Lu (Sun Yat-sen University)
11:00 – 11:25 ACCORD experience with ESA-CCI land cover and new efforts with ML-based physiography
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Patrick Samuelsson (SMHI)
11:25 – 11:40 Open discussion
11:40 – 13:00 Lunch break
State of the art of data and future capabilities of data providers
Chairs: Else Swinnen (VITO) and Markus Reichstein (Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry)
13:00 – 13:25 Insights into the soil and surface with Planetary Variables
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Thomas Frederikse (Planet)
13:25 – 13:50 Copernicus Land Monitoring Service: Portfolio OverView
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Nadine Gobron (European Commission Joint Research Centre)
13:50 – 14:15 The EUMETSAT SAF Network data for land surface modelling
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Lothar Schüller (EUMETSAT)
14:15 – 14:45 Group photo and coffee break
14:45 – 15:10 ESA’s Climate Change Initiative: how space data support our understanding of climate change

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Clement Albergel (ESA Climate Office)
15:10 – 15:35 LSA SAF land surface products and their use to assess models realism



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Emanuel Dutra (Instituto Português do Mar e Atmosfera)
15:35 – 16:00 Leveraging C3S ECV Datasets for Earth System Modeling: Insights and Applications.
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Joaquin Munoz-Sabater
16:30 – 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 Speaker(s)
07:15 – 07:45 Arrival and registration
Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV)
Robert-Schuman-Platz 1
53175 Bonn

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

Chair: Christoph Rüdiger

09:30 – 10:00 Coffee break
10:00 – 11:30 Breakout session 2 on sub-surface ancillaries

Chair: Anne Verhoef

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

Chair: Martin Best

14:15 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 16:00 Wrap-up
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