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Monday, 9 September 2024
12:00 to 14:00 Registration and lunch
Registration in the Weather Room
Workshop opening

14:00 to 14:10 Welcome and introduction
Video recording
Speaker: Matthieu Chevallier (ECMWF)
14:10 to 14:15 Logistical arrangements
Speaker: Mark Rodwell (ECMWF)
Predictability

Chair: Sarah-Jane Lock, Rapporteur: Inna Polichtchouk

14:15 to 14:45 Diagnostics for investigating the representation of synoptic-scale processes in models and their benefit for medium- to extended-range prediction
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Speaker: Christian M. Grams (Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, MeteoSwiss)
14:45 to 15:05 Diabatic heating as a diagnostic for predictability on weather to intra-seasonal time scales
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Speaker: David Straus (George Mason University)
15:05 to 15:25 ‘Forecast busts’ over Europe in ERA5 reforecasts: Characteristics and predictions using neural networks
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Speaker: Seraphine Hauser (University of Oklahoma)
15:25 to 15:55 Coffee break
15:55 to 16:15 The transition from practical to intrinsic predictability and how to diagnose it
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Speaker: Tobias Selz (LMU München)
16:15 to 16:45 Discussion 1

What is ultimate predictability, and what is holding NWP back?


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16:45 to 17:45 Icebreaker reception

Weather Room


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Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Processes 1
Chair: Richard Forbes, Rapporteur: Luise Schulte
09:30 to 10:00 Diagnosing Mesoscale Convective Systems in DYAMOND Models: A Feature Tracking Intercomparison
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Speaker: Zhe Feng (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
10:00 to 10:20 Evaluation and Error Analysis of the July 2021 Extremely Severe Rainstorm in Henan Province Simulated by CMA-MESO Model
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Speaker: Ziwei Wan (CMA Earth System Modeling and Prediction Centre)
10:20 to 10:40 The Challenge of Representing Extreme Rainfall Events in Global Models
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Speaker: David B. Parsons (University of Oklahoma)
10:40 to 11:00 The role of eddy momentum flux on the organisation of shallow convection
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Speaker: Alessandro Savazzi (TuDelft)
11:00 to 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 to 11:50 Model Uncertainty – MIP
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Speaker: Hannah Christensen (University of Oxford)
11:50 to 12:10 ICECAP - A tool to analyse multi-centre sea-ice forecasts from days to seasons
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Speaker: Steffen Tietsche (ECMWF)
12:10 to 12:30 Process-based diagnostics using atmosphere budget analysis and nudging technique to identify sources of model systematic errors in global MetUM
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Speaker: Chihiro Matsukawa (Japan Meteorological Agency, Met Office)
12:30 to 12:50 Process-based diagnostics of the impact of new observing systems: a case study of the Aeolus wind satellite
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Speaker: Robin Pilch Kedzierski (Meteorologisches Institut, Universität Hamburg)
12:50 to 13:50 Lunch break
13:50 to 14:20 Research on Error Traceability Technology Based on Scale Analysis
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Speaker: Bin Zhao (CMA Earth System Modeling and Prediction Centre, China Meteorological Administration)
14:20 to 14:50 Discussion 2

What are the key model process errors and uncertainties?


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Posters
14:50 to 15:30 Poster introductions

Chair: David Lavers


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15:30 to 17:00 Poster session

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Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Machine learning

Chair: Michael Maier-Gerber, Rapporteur: Linus Magnusson

09:30 to 09:50 Do AI models produce better weather forecasts than physics-based models? A quantitative evaluation case study of Storm Ciarán
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Speaker: Simon Driscoll (University of Reading)
09:50 to 10:10 Global deep-learning weather prediction model evaluation and error diagnostics
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Speaker: Uroš Perkan (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics)
10:10 to 10:30 Can ML help end users increase forecast successes and highlight potential busts
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Speaker: Isla Finney (Lake Street Consulting Ltd)
10:30 to 11:00 Discussion 3 - Why are AI models so competitive, and are they physically consistent?

Rapporteur: Linus Magnusson


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11:00 to 11:30 Coffee break and group photo
Host talk
11:30 to 11:50 Scale-dependent evaluation and fair comparison of ensemble systems
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Speaker: Mark Rodwell (ECMWF)
Processes 2

Chair: Frederic Vitart, Rapporteur: Rebecca Emerton

11:50 to 12:20 Diagnosing tropical waves
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Speaker: Peter Knippertz (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
12:20 to 12:40 Tropical Wave Diagnostics and Their Applications to Numerical Weather Models
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Speaker: Quinton Lawton (University of Miami)
12:40 to 13:00 The Maritime Continent barrier effect on MJO predictability
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Speaker: Hyemi Kim (Ewha Womans University)
13:00 to 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 to 14:30 Diagnostics for Tropical cyclone prediction : from the S2S scale to the mesoscale
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Speaker: Philippe Peyrillé (Météo-France)
14:30 to 15:00 Discussion 4

The tropical elephant in the forecasting room?


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15:00 to 15:30 Coffee break
Community data and tools

Chair: Linus Magnusson, Rapporteur: Alison Cobb

15:30 to 15:50 Diagnostics Package for MJO-Teleconnections
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Speaker: Chaim Garfinkel (Hebrew University)
15:50 to 16:10 The Ensemble Museums – a diagnostic tool of weather forecasting-
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Speaker: Mio Matsueda (Univesity of the Ryukyus/University of Tsukuba)
16:10 to 16:30 The development and implementation of diagnostics for ERA5 and ERA6
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Speaker: Alison Cobb (ECMWF)
16:30 to 17:00 Discussion 5

The importance of community datasets and intercomparison


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18:30 to 21:00 Dinner in Reading town centre

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Thursday, 12 September 2024
Resolution and scale interactions
Chair: Inna Polichtchouk, Rapporteur: Richard Forbes
09:30 to 10:00 Diagnostic approaches for the GLObal-to-Regional ICON (GLORI) Digital Twin
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Speaker: Chiara Marsigli (DWD)
10:00 to 10:20 Flow dependence of error growth: Potential-vorticity diagnostics and feature tracking
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Speaker: Michael Riemer
10:20 to 10:40 Case study of error-growth from mesoscale convection near the intrinsic limit: combining potential vorticity error growth tendencies with ensemble sensitivity analysis
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Speaker: Edward Groot (AOPP, University of Oxford)
10:40 to 11:00 Inspecting high-resolution coupled models in a scale-aware way
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Speaker: Matthias Aengenheyster (ECMWF)
11:00 to 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 to 12:00 Challenges in the evaluation of the K-Scale hierarchy
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Speaker: Claudio Sanchez (Met Office)
12:00 to 12:30 Discussion 6

Does resolution matter in global NWP?


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Close of workshop

Chair: Mark Rodwell, Rapporteur: Sarah-Jane Lock

12:30 to 13:00 Plenary discussion

What have we learnt? Diagnostic success stories? Diagnostic priorities? The ingredients of the perfect diagnostic?


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