6TH COSMO GENERAL MEETING
20 – 23 September 2005
Zurich
Report from the Scientific Project Manager (SPM)
Tiziana Paccagnella
ARPA-SIM
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Content
• Scientific and technical activities will be
presented by WP coordinators during their
Overview Talks
• I will briefly go through major steps related to
COSMO management and coordination during
the past year:
• STC Meeting
Warsaw - December 2004
• Work Packages Coordinators Meeting
DWD, 3-4 May 2005
• 14th STC meeting
DWD, 13 June 2005
• Work Packages Coordinators (SAC) Meeting
Bologna, 1-2 September 2005
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STC Meeting – Warsaw - December 2004
Approval of the new organization of the
COSMO General Meeting
Oct 2004
Dec
2004
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STC Meeting – Warsaw - December 2004
Approval of the 2005 work packages
Oct 2004
Dec
2004
From the minutes of the meeting:
“ There are about 120 WPs, 5 of them
without any human resources. Much
work is devoted to the operational
maintenance of the LM system in each
COSMO Member State but there is a
lack in resources for scientific
development “
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Work Packages Coordinators
Meeting
DWD, 3-4 May 2005
Oct 2004
May
2005
• Final decisions about the COSMO general
meeting organization
 Agenda
 Workshops
 Scientific contributions
 ……
• 1-day WG1 workshop to discuss the future
strategy of COSMO about Data Assimilation
• COSMO Verification Package: a project is
required
WPC
Meeting
DWD
May2005
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Work Packages Coordinators
Meeting
DWD, 3-4 May 2005
Oct 2004
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(2)
Critical aspects
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lack of man power
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May
2005
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Discipline
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the solution is not easy to be found. A multicomponent strategy must be designed to tackle the
problem by different directions
centralize some of the activities which are duplicate
in the COSMO countries; this would allow to save
human resources to be diverted on other activities
Training of new scientists also by means of a visiting
scientists program
……
COSMO scientists to do their best to respect the
deadlines, to answer the mails, to circulate
information etc.etc.
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Work Packages Coordinators
Meeting
DWD, 3-4 May 2005
Oct 2004
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(2)
An updated overview of the skill of the
model will be regularly presented by the
WG5 Coordinator and discussed at every
future WPC meeting
May
2005
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14th STC meeting
DWD, 13 June 2005
Oct 2004
June
2005
• It is necessary to better organize COSMO
activities to have a higher degree of efficiency in
pursuing COSMO objectives.
• The weakness due to lack of human resources
must be overcome concentrating man power on
strategic priorities.
• Starting from 2006 a new organisation of the
COSMO activities will be implemented and
tested.
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14th STC meeting
DWD, 13 June 2005
Oct 2004
June
2005
Sept. 2005
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STC defines COSMO strategy
•
SAC (WP Coordinators + SPM) defines a preliminary list of projects
fitting COSMO strategy
•
General Meeting parallel sessions:
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SAC defines a priority list to be submitted to the decisions of STC
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STC selects a limited (one-digit) numbers of “top priority projects”
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WP coordinators identify Project Leaders
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Project Leaders prepare a detailed Project description and a clear
project plan (project activities, human resources, milestones)
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STC gives the final approval of the projects
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STC members assigns human resources to the projects
tuning of projects
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collection of proposals and fine-
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COSMO SREPS
Brainstorming at DWD
DWD, 14 June 2005
Oct 2004
June
2005
A brainstorming about the development of a new
ensemble system for short-range (SREPS) based on
LM was held at DWD.
Participants: DWD staff and SPM
Outcome of the meeting:
COSMO-SREPS will see a strong cooperation with
INM-Spain
 INM will include LM among the models (5 including
LM) they are running nested in 4 different global
models.
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COSMO SREPS
Brainstorming at DWD
DWD, 14 June 2005
Oct 2004
June
2005
• 1) INM will run LM at 25-km grid for a large domain
driven by GME, ECMWF, GFS and UKMO, and COSMO
would use these four LM runs to drive the COSMO-SREPS
at 10/7 km over the COSMO-LEPS domain. These runs
would be performed at the ECMWF, and we would extract
frames from the Spanish LM runs.
• 2) Activity to develop perturbations on the model
trajectories, e.g. stochastic physics, will be carried on. For
this activity a cooperation will be possible both with INM
and later probably also with UKMO.
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Work Packages/Groups
Coordinators (SAC) meeting
DWD, 1-2 September 2005
Oct 2004
Sept
2005
1. COSMO strategy: goals and
perspectives presented and
discusses  Mathias Rotach will
present on Thursday
2. Preliminary list of proposed Top
Priority Projects  Tiziana
Paccagnella will present on
thursday
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Work Packages/Groups
Coordinators (SAC) meeting
DWD, 1-2 September 2005
Oct 2004
The two FTE contributions from each
COSMO member will be devoted to:
 Research and Development Priority
Projects.
 Management of Support .
Sept
2005
Management of Support includes mainly
activities carried on in Working Group 6
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• Andrea Raspanti will be the next WP
coordinator of WG5 Verification
• On Thursday evening we will have a
joint STC-SAC session
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• COSMO-LEPS products requested by
Hungarian metoffice
Czech Met Service
• Cooperation with INM from HIRLAM
Consortium on COSMO-SREPS
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Welcome to our new colleagues from
Rumenia and from other institutions
participating to our COSMO meeting
for the first time !!!!!
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STC
December
2004
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WPC
Meeting
DWD
May2005
Some
Outcomes
May 2005
STC
Meeting
DWD
June 2005)
SAC
September
2005
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