EMS Annual Meeting 2009 & European Conference on Applications of Meteorology

28 September - 02 October 2009
Toulouse, France 

Presentations & Summary Session Reports

Silver Medal Lecture

Opening Session

Applications of Meteorology

AM1 High resolution meteorology - applications and services

M. Bonnet: Operational applications of high accuracy lighting data
M. Palomares: Safety: relation with communication and use of weather information and forecast
B.K. Reichert: AutoWARN - Automatic Support for the Weather Warning Service at Deutscher Wetterdienst
F. Kroonenberg: Meteoalarm - Latest developments for weather warnings in Europe
P. Brovelli: Thunderstorm risk monitoring service
F. Prates: Probabilistic prediction of severe weather using new products based on generalized extreme value theory
G.J. Steeneveld: Modeling and Forecasting the Onset and Duration of a Severe Dutch Fog Event
F. Kroonenberg: The Human factor in issuing severe weather warnings
A. Ganske: Correction Factors for COSMO-Wind Fields, used for operational forecasts in the Elbe River Estuary (Project OPTEL)
T. Kratzsch: Objective Mixed and Manually Controlled Data Base OMG
P. Marquet: Computations of convective parameters with the AROME model for the Hautmont (F4) tornado
D. van Dijke: The use of a high resolution model in a private environment
F. Prates: Tropical cyclone genesis products at ECMWF
K. Knüpffer: High Resolution MOS Forecasts Based on a Low Resolution Model
C. Zingerle: EVA - An Interactive Online Tool for Extreme Value Analysis
C. Periard: On Demand Runs Of Mesoscale Models : Météo-France multi-mission, multi-support GUI 
Subsession Health and agrometeorology: Summary Report - Pirkko Saarikivi
D. Leroy: Forecasting SO2 pollution : bypassing the limits of meso-scale modelling by analysing local features and creating quality indicators
E. Cloppet: High resolution fire danger modeling : integration of quantitative precipitation amount estimates derived from weather radars as an input of FWI
W. Janssen: Online irrigation service for fruit und vegetable crops at farmers site
T. Gerersdorfer: Comparison of evaporimeters in field experiments in Austria
Y.M. Tourre: Rift Valley fever in a zone potentially occupied by Aedes vexans in Senegal: dynamics and risk mapping
C. Koppe: Integration of Thermal Indoor Conditions into Operational Heat Health Warning Systems
A. Baklanov: Chemical weather forecasting: new concept and service for meteorological center
M. Jørgensen: A new forecast presentation tool for offshore contractors
I.W. Zuurendonk: Route based forecasting
M.F. Bult: Decision support forecast for the intervention of transhipment actions at Amsterdam harbour
B. Rudolf: High resolution data, forecasts and services for hydrological applications
G. Boyce: The Flood Forecasting Centre (FFC) in the UK
P. Saarikivi: ROADIDEA- Roadmap for radical innovations in European transport services
T. Roschier: Data Management needs in Hydrometeorological Institutes

AM2 Aviation Meteorology

L. Mutuel: Weather-enabled future onboard surveillance and navigation systems
A. Mirza: An overview of the FLYSAFE datalink solution for the exchange of weather information: supporting aircrew decision making processes
A. Mirza: Verification of FLYSAFE Clear Air Turbulence (CAT) objects against aircraft turbulence measurements
Y. Guillou: NOWCASTING OF IN-FLIGHT hazard thunderstorm, supporting aircrew and ATM decision making process
J. Williams: Global Turbulence Decision Support for Aviation
R. Palikona: Cloud Property Retrievals from Geostationary Satellites for Aviation Weather Applications
J.W. Strapp: Jet Engine Powerloss in Ice Particle Conditions: An Aviation Industry Problem
P.D. Williams: Application of the Lighthill-Ford Theory of Spontaneous Imbalance to Clear-Air Turbulence Forecasting
T. Gerz: The DLR Project “Weather & Flying"
J. Wijngaard: Improved low visibility forecasts at Amsterdam Airport
A. Boilley: High resolution numerical modeling over the Nice Côte d'Azur International airport
P. Tabary: Innovative radar products for the 3D, high-resolution and real-time monitoring of the convective activity in the airspace around airports
T. Hauf: Punctuality modelling and forecasting: Frankfurt Airport case study
R. Sharman: Climatology of Upper-level Turbulence Statistics Determined from Rawinsonde and ACARS/AMDAR Data
T. Gerz: The Wake Vortex Prediction and Monitoring System WSVBS
A. Dabas: Observation of fog by a sodar at Roissy-CDG airport
C. Drüe: Inversion and shear layer detection using AMDAR and wind profiler soundings
K.E. Haman: Aircraft Measurements of Temperature and Liquid Water Content in Entrainment Interface Layer of Stratocumulus Clouds
A. Wieser: A novel modular multi-sensor dropsonde system for high resolution measurements
W. Frey: A new airborne tandem measurement platform for cloud-radiation interaction studies: The AIRcraft Towed Sensor Shuttle (AIRTOSS)

AM3 Operational Oceanography

Climatology

CL1 Climate observations and data management, climate monitoring, reconstruction and mapping, applications for decision support on adaptation and mitigation, climate change and society

J. Hiebl: A high-resolution 1961-1990 monthly temperature climatology for the greater Alpine region
P. Bissolli: SnowClim: Snow climate monitoring for Europep
R. Boehm: www.zamg.ac.at/HISTALP - a new climate data and information website for the greater Alpine region of Europe
V. Alexandrov: Homogenization of long-term series of air temperature in Bulgaria
P. Stepanek: Software solution for data quality control and homogenization of time series
B. Kurnik: Drought forecasting over Europe using Standardized Precipitation Index and monthly forecasts
S.M. Vicente-Serrano: A multi-scalar drought index sensitive to global warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index - SPEI
J. Pecho: Regional analysis of Intensity-Duration-Frequency Relationships in Slovakia using Scaling Model Approach
A. El Kenawy: Climatological Modeling of Monthly Air Temperature and Precipitation in Egypt through GIS Techniques
F. Ruget: Effect of climate change in herbivorous livestock systems, including arable crops, in the French area
A. El Kenawy: Variability of Hot and Cold Spells in North-eastern Spain (1955-2006)

CL2 Climate change assessments of trends and variability

O. Zolina: How reliable are the estimates of climate variability in extreme precipitation?
S. Federico: Calabria Daily Rainfall Trends over 1970-2000
J. Wibig: Dry spells and droughts in Poland, 1951-2006
E. Cloppet: Potential impact of climate change on fire meteorological danger in France : observed trends and projections
M. J. Prohom: Recent annual and seasonal temperature trends for a Trans-Pyrenean region, 1950-2008
J. Taboada: Actual and future trends of extreme values of temperature for the NW Iberian Peninsula
S. Parey: Identification of trends in European temperature mean, variance and extremes and their use to derive future extreme values
P. Szabo: The evaluation of extreme precipitation and temperature indices based on regional climate models at the Hungarian Meteorological Service
O. Panferov: Trends of abiotic damage in forest ecosystems in Germany at regional scale under SRES A1B, B1
S. Planton: Regional climate change detection based on smooth temporal patterns
D.F. Ihrig: Detection of climate trends from local time series using a Monte-Carlo-enhanced filtering process
J. Grieger: Southern Hemisphere Storminess under recent and anthropogenic climate conditions based on a multi model ensemble analysis
S. Gulev: Global changes in extreme wind waves, marine storminess and cyclone activity
A.M.R. Bakker: Wind energy in a changing climate

CL3 Climate prediction and scenarios from seasons to century

A. Fischer: Climate Variability in the Stratosphere during the 20th Century
M. Dubrovsky: Uncertainties in multi-model climate projections
T. Halenka: On the Validation of ENSEMBLES Regional Climate Simulations in Terms of Reproducing Annual Cycle
R. Huth: A comparative extended validation of statistical downscaling and regional climate models on a common dense grid in Central Europe
G. Csima: High resolution experiments with the ALADIN-Climate regional climate model
A. Horanyi: Application of a regional climate model mini-ensemble for the Carpathian Basin
J. Colin: The evolution of extreme precipitations in high resolution scenarios over France
A.-L. Beaulant: High precipitating events in Mediterranean regions : a climate downscaling approach
J. Wibig: Extreme dryness events in Poland, their synoptic scale drivers and trial of downscaling
T. Halenka: Regional Climate Change Scenarios in High Resolution for Impact Assessment in Central and Eastern Europe - Project CECILIA
R.E. Benestad: Improving the communication of local climate scenarios and uncertainties
G.C. Leckebusch: Diagnosis of spatial distribution and severity of mid-latitude storms in an ensemble of European AOGCMs under anthropogenic climate change
M.G. Donat: European winter storm losses in relation to extreme wind speeds in a multi-model ensemble of GCM and RCM simulations
J.G. Pinto: The statistical uncertainty of changes in winter storms over the North Atlantic and Europe in an ensemble of transient climate simulations
L. Dubus: Downscaling of seasonal forecasts and possible application to hydro-power production forecasts in France
E. Rudel: The future bioclimatic conditions in Austria under the aspect of climate change scenarios

CL4 Documentary and natural proxy data for the study of climate anomalies and hydro-meteorological extremes

A.F.V. van Engelen: Precipitation Indices Low Countries
P. Dobrovolný: Anomalies detected in Central European Temperature series reconstructed from documentary evidence and instrumental records for the last 500 years
E. Zorita: European temperature records of the past five centuries based on documentary information compared to climate simulations
M.J. Alcoforado: Past analogs of recent climate anomalies and impacts in Portugal. Droughts, storms and heat waves
R. Brázdil: Floods and windstorms in the Czech Republic during the past millennium: synthesis of documentary and instrumental data
F. Mauelshagen: Expanding the Territory of Historical Reconstruction: The Study of Frequency and Severity of Hail Storms, Based on 19th and 20th-Century Records from Swiss Insurance Archives
U. Buentgen: Environmental drivers of Yersinia pestis - a holistic perspective on Medieval Europe
G. Battipaglia: Five centuries of Central European temperature extremes reconstructed from tree-ring density and documentary evidence
N. Datsenko: Shortcomings in the tree-ring regional curve standardization and an improvement of the method
V. Rath: Climate reconstruction from boreholes: correcting for the influence of past temperature changes
J.J. Gomez-Navarro: The climate of the Iberian Peninsula during the last five centuries from a regional climate model perspective
J. Franke: Combining proxy data and model simulations to reconstruct European climate
M.-A. Saz-Sanchez: Recent climate trends and multisecular climate variability: temperature and precipitation during the cold season in the Ebro Basin between 1500-2008
R. Brázdil: Floods in Brno: history, causes and impacts
H. Paeth: The 2007 flood in sub-Saharan Africa: spatio-temporal characteristics, potential causes, and future perspective

Atmosphere and the Water Cycle

AW1 Dynamical Meteorology 

J. Campa: A climatology of potential vorticity towers associated with extratropical cyclones
M. Böttcher: A case study of an explosively deepening, diabatic Rossby-wave induced cyclone: the influence of environmental conditions
G. Rivière: Effect of latitudinal variations in low-level baroclinicity on eddy life cycles and upper-tropospheric wave-breaking processes
S. Stege: Upper tropospheric divergence and its impact on pathways of severe extra-tropical storms under anthropogenic climate change conditions
J. A. Santos: Development of strong and persistent ridge episodes in the Eastern North Atlantic
V. Guemas: Interactions between weather regimes and marine surface in the North-Atlantic region
M. Plu: Interaction of tropical cyclone Ivan (South-West Indian Ocean, 2007) with the ocean
PD Williams: Inertia-Gravity Waves Emitted from Balanced Flow: Observations, Properties, and Consequences
L. Gantner: Cloud resolving modelling of the life cycle of a MCS: Sensitivity to soil conditions over West Africa
J. E. H. Weber: Density-driven convection between horizontal planes in a conditionally unstable fluid

AW2 Cyclone Tracking Algorithms
AW3 Modelling, forecasting and validation of small scale processes in atm. models 

S. W. Hoch: Radiative flux divergence in the surface boundary layer from observational and model perspectives
J.P.A. Martins: Impact of shear and curvature on surface gravity wave stress
S. Dupont: Large-Eddy Simulation of turbulent wind flow over heterogeneous landscape
B.J.H. Van de Wiel: A new conceptual model for the nocturnal low level jet
S.-E. Gryning: Modelling of the Wind Profile, effect of boundary-layer height, baroclinicity, Brunt-Vaisala frequency and surface roughness
C.C. van Heerwaarden: A framework to quantify the influence of land-atmosphere feedbacks on surface evaporation
N. Mkhinini: Turbulence production in stratified Ekman flow
M. Cassiani: Stochastic fields method for sub-grid scale emission heterogeneity in mesoscale atmospheric dispersion models
F. Couvreux: The 10th of July 2006 over Niamey: A golden case of daytime moist convection in a semi-arid environment
A. Gounou: Observation and Modelling of Continental Diurnal Cycles in West Africa
F. Guichard: Roles of low-level thermodynamics on surface-convection interactions over West-Africa
J. Martins: Evaluation of length scales on the transition from shallow to deep convection over land using a spectral method
R. J. Keane: 3D experiments with a stochastic convective parameterisation scheme
O. Thouron: Improvement of LES boundary layer cloud parameterisations to study the entrainment mixing process
T. Heus: Automated large-eddy simulations of realistic atmospheric boundary layers

AW4 Large scale air-sea interaction processes and their influence on the Euro-Mediterranean climate 

I. Iglesias: Influence of ENSO areas in the rainfall of the NW Iberian Peninsula
Y. M. Tourre: Patterns of Coherent Low-frequency Climate Variability in the Atlantic basin during the 20th Century
I.I. Zveryaev: Interannual Variability of the Key Elements of Hydrological Cycle over Europe during Summer Season
W. May: On the characteristics of daily precipitation in the Mediterranean region
J.L. Palau: Parametric Reconstruction of Water Vapour Accumulation Modes in the Western and the Eastern Mediterranean Basin
S.O. Krichak: Evaluation of variations in precipitation component of the water cycle for the EU FP6 CIRCE Project
E. Sanchez Gomez: Future changes in the Mediterranean water budget projected by an ensemble of Regional Climate Models
A. Elizalde: Assessment of the Mediterranean Water Cycle using an atmosphere-ocean coupled model
PM Ruti: Climate scenarios for the Mediterranean basin with a regional coupled system
A. Casado-Lopez: Heat fluxes at the Mediterranean sea surface and the relation to the atmospheric large-scale dynamics with a regional coupled model
C. Lebeaupin Brossier: Modelling of the Mediterranean circulation using atmospheric fields from the WRF model at different space-time resolutions
C. Cassardo: Hydrological and Energy Budgets in the Alpine Area during present and future climate
L. Gestal-Souto: Groundwater influence on soil moisture dynamics and land surface fluxes over the Iberian Peninsula
C. B. Uvo: Long- term discharge variability of the main rivers in the Mediterranean Sea basin
S. Materia: Sensitivity of river discharge to the quality of external meteorological forcings

AW5 Interrelationships between earth and space meteorology 
AW6 Atmospheric measurements from the local to the regional scale 

Summary Session Report - Frank Beyrich, Fred. Bosveld, Henk de Bruin
M. Lothon: The turbulence underside of the West African Monsoon
T. El-Madany: Regionalization of turbulent fluxes in an inhomogeneous landscape by combining aircraft measurements and footprint analysis
M. Froidevaux: A new look to land-atmosphere interactions with water vapour and temperature Raman lidar
K. Arnold: Turbulence structure of the convective boundary layer by means of Doppler lidar measurements
H.A.R. de Bruin: A scintillometer variance approach to measure vertical scalar fluxes
C. Higgins: The impact of Humidity Fluctuations on Sensible Heat Fluxes Measured with Scintillometers
M. van Iersel: The TNO 7-wavelength transmissometer
K. Boniface: Humidity quantification over the Mediterranean Sea by GPS on board a ship : methodology and validation
S.G. Bradley: Ultra-high-resolution turbulence, flux, and wind profiles using new acoustic profiler designs
A. Deghan: Reliability of Turbulence Measurements by Radars
C. Jarmain: Quantifying green water flows for improved Integrated Land and Water Resource Management
U. Falk: Scintillometry, Eddy Covariance and Remote Sensing for Evapotranspiration Mapping in West-Africa
C. Agnese: Applicability of a displaced-beam laser scintillometer in a sparse tall Mediterranean vegetation
O.K Hartogensis: Combining scintillometry and scalar turbulence measurements to obtain minute interval mass fluxes of H2O and CO2
S. Emeis: Up-scaling methods of greenhouse gas fluxes between the soil and the atmosphere (shortened title)
S. Turso: MICRORADARNET: An innovative high resolution low-cost x-band weather radar network
B. Hennemuth: Operational determination of air pollution dispersion parameters
M. Ranci: An automated data quality control procedure applied to a mesoscale meteorological network
B. Landl: SwissMetNet: operational quality control on raw data of the new automatic meteorological ground-based network of Switzerland
F.C. Bosveld: Gap filling procedures for surface flux observations at the grassland site Cabauw

AW7 Atmospheric hazards 
AW8 Boundary layer Phys. 

E.R. Pardyjak: The effect of surface type on the decay of turbulence in the surface layer during evening transition
S. Trini Castelli: Evaluation of interpolation procedures to input turbulence fields from a prognostic model to a diagnostic mass consistent model
R. Kouznetsov: Momentum flux-profile relationship in the stable atmospheric boundary layer
K.-M. Xu: Low Cloud Feedback Diagnosed from Observations and LES Modeling
V. Guemas: Impact of the ocean diurnal variations on the intraseasonal variability of Sea Surface Temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean
D. F. Nadeau: Large-eddy simulations of the convective atmospheric boundary layer over heterogeneous land surfaces
I. Esau: Planetary boundary layer feedbacks in climate system
Y. Bouteloup: Improvement of the subgrid vertical mixing parameterization in operational hydrostatic models at Météo-France
T. Auerswald: Comparison of Synthetic Turbulent Wind Fields with Large-Eddy Simulations of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
M. Maché: A high-resolution large-eddy simulation of turbulent flow within and above urban-like canopies
B. Galperin: Turbulent diffusion of momentum and scalar in flows with internal and Rossby waves
M. Diebold: Large Eddy Simulation over three-dimensional mountain topography
N. Vercauteren: Heat and water vapor fluxes over a lake: a LES and field campaign investigation
S. Zilitinkevich: Planetary Boundary Layers - Physics, Modelling and Role in Earth System: Summary of New ERC Grant (2009-2013)

AW9 Interfacing hydrological and meteorological models in forecasting systems 
AW10 Air-Sea Interactions incl. CO2-uptake

Summary Session Report - AM Sempreviva, SE Gryning, MM Miglietta, L. Sørensen
A. Rutgersson: How should air-sea interaction processes be introduced in models
D. Pettenuzzo: Air-Sea physics parameterizations and assimilation of sea surface satellite temperatures for the Mediterranean Forecasting System (MFS)
M. Faucher: Operational coupled atmosphere - ocean - ice forecast system for the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada
M. C. Kelly: Application of a subfilter-scale flux model over the ocean
J. Bange: Validating coastal, near and far offshore boundary layer parameterizations with airborne helipod turbulence probe
A.-S. Smedman: Velocity spectra in the marine atmospheric boundary layer
R.J. Foreman: Estimation of offshore humidity fluxes from sonic and mean temperature profile data
S Federico: Climatology of the sea breeze and its micro-scale structure at a coastal Mediterranean site
J. Nissen: On the application of a numerical model to simulate the onshore normalized wind profile up to 160 m
U. Bungert: Impact of mesoscale dynamic and thermodynamic changes in sea ice on the development of low pressure systems in the Fram Strait

AW11 Environmental Meteorology 

M. Princevac: Field, Laboratory and Numerical Study of Turbulent Dispersion in Built Environments
H. Nakayama: Large-Eddy Simulation on Turbulent Flow and Plume Dispersion over A 2-Dimensional Hill
I. Schicker: High resolution meteorological modellingof the Inn Valley atmosphere, Part I
S. Stenzel: Dispersion modeling of accidental releases of toxic gases - utility for the fire brigades
B. Aouizerats: Impacts of atmospheric aerosols on urban boundary layer dynamics: Application during the CAPITOUL field experiment
M Veenstra: Continuous measurements of PM at ground level over an industrial area of Evia (Greece) (shortened title)
J.E. Wagner: Investigation of spectrally resolved actinic flux in mountainous terrain
M. Demuzere: Future Ozone projections for a rural mid-latitued site using a statistical downscaling approach
M. Piringer: Transport of pollen to and from a Central European forest
H. Dacre: Forecasting the transport of pollution using a numerical weather prediction model
M. Hirtl: AQA - Air Quality model for Austria: comparison of ALADIN and ALARO forecasts with observed meteorological profiles and PM10 predictions
O. Jorba: Air quality over Europe and Iberian Peninsula for 2004 at high horizontal resolution: evaluation of the CALIOPE modelling system
A.A. Baklanov: MEGAPOLI: concept and first results of multi-scale modelling of megacity impacts
M. Beekmann: The MEGAPOLI Paris campaign for urban aerosol characterisation -first results
R. Hu: An Integrated Analysis of Particulate Matter Episodes over Megacities using Multi-scale Modelling, Ground-based and Space-based Observations
G. Pace: Meteorological analyses data set for air quality assessment modelling from national to local scale: verification and applications
O. Jorba: Development of an integrated chemical weather prediction system for environmental applications at meso to global scales: NMMB/BSC-CHEM
S. Banzhaf: Simulation of wet deposition in the CTM REM-CALGRID using a diagnostic and a prognostic meteorological driver
T. Halenka: Climate Change Impact on Air Quality in High Resolution Simulations
J. A. G. Orza: Towards the assessment of the vertical structure of Saharan dust over the western Mediterranean from rawinsonde data

AW12 Phenology and Agrometeorolgy 

J. Eitzinger: Regional aspects of climate change impacts and related adaptation options in European agriculture
V. Alexandrov: Climate change impacts on cereal crops in Northeast Bulgaria
A. Shahabfar: Application of Perpendicular Drought Indices as a Dynamic Drought Monitoring Method
S. Orlandini: COST 734-CLIVAGRI: Impacts of Climate change and Variability on European Agriculture
M. Baldi: Homogeneous regions in Italy: an analysis of the mean and extreme climate characteristics and their impact on agriculture
V. Vucetic: Water balance components and climate change in Croatia
Z. Dunkel: Climate Change Case Study for Hungary using Soil Moisture Data
Z. Dunkel: Categorisation of Drought Indices Used in Agricultural Meteorology
M. Virag: Soil Moisture and Temperature Changes in the Czech Republic: In Situ Data
B. Lalic: Parameterisation of pollution diffusion in presence of forest canopy
P. Nejedlik: The influence of synoptic patterns on wild plant phenology in the mountaineous areas of Central Europe
V. Kazandjiev: Climate change, agroclimatic resources and agroclimatic zoning of agriculture in Bulgaria
L. Hajkova: Evaluation of selected wild plants flowering season 1991 - 2009
K. Jatczak: Tendencies of phenological spring season shifting start date in Poland according to changes of vegetative period duration

AW13 Spatial Interpolation and GIS modelling in earth system science 
AW14 How to determine the atmospheric boundary layer height 

Communication and Education 

CE1 Media and communication 
CE2 Climatological and meteorological information in the context of decision making
CE4 Education and Sharing knowledge

T. Halenka: European Meteorological Society and education in atmospheric sciences
P.J.K. Hansen: Weather, Ocean and Climate topics in Geosciences, a new subject in Norwegian upper secondary education
Y. Tsubota: Using Forecasting to Teach Weather Science
T. Miler: Sample classroom activities based on climate science
M. Jarosova: How to bring meteorology close to school
P.J.K. Hansen: The most important single factor influencing learning
A. Ladstaetter-Weissenmayer: Air pollution linked to Remote Sensing tools - Science training using a Master's Level e-Learning Tool
P.J.K. Hansen: How to use The National Gallery as a cross curricular approach to weather and climate studies at primary level
A. Chiariello: Eumetcal blended courses: European cutting edge know-how and collaboration will into meteorological training
H. ter Pelkwijk: Severe Weather training
C. Billard: Météo-France activities towards education and youth spheres
A. Belotserkovsky: Development of competency-based two-level curricula in Meteorology: From COMBAT-METEO to QUALIMET

Numerical Weather Prediction

NWP1 Dynamics and predictability of high impact weather

Summary Session Report - Erik Andersson and Horst Böttger
C. Frick: A case study of heavy snowfall in North Rhine-Westphalia (25-27 Nov 2005)
C. Claud: Impact of upper-level fine-scale structures in the deepening of a Mediterranean "hurricane"
L. Wiegand: An unusual Saharan dust outbreak into central Europe and heavy precipitation at the southern side of the Alps in May 2008: A TIGGE case study
B. Joly: Multivariate weather regimes in the Mediterranean, a perspective to increase Heavy Precipitating Events predictability? (shortened title)
D.M. Sonechkin: Monitoring of the predictability loss in the medium-range H500 forecasts (shortened title)
R. Petrik: Investigating the relation of thermodynamic processes to local budgets in a mesoscale weather prediction model
P. Knippertz: Prediction of Dry-Season Precipitation in Tropical West Africa and its Relation to Forcing from the Extratropics
R.E. Benestad: Exploring the relationship between the Arctic sea-ice and mid-latitude storm frequency.

NWP2 Ensemble forecasting

M. Leutbecher: Ensemble forecasting at ECMWF
M. Paulat: COSMO-DE-EPS - construction, diagnoses and verification of a limited-area ensemble prediction system on the convective scale
A. Montani: Limited-area ensemble activities at the Hydro-Meteorological service ARPA-SIMC: the COSMO-LEPS system
T. Diomede: Test of calibration techniques based on reforecasts for limited-area ensemble precipitation forecasts
C. Labadie: PEARP, the Meteo-France Ensemble Prediction system
B. Vié: Ensemble methods for evaluating the convective-scale predictability of Mediterranean Heavy Precipitation Events
D. Cane: New technique for ensemble dressing combining Multimodel SuperEnsemble and precipitation PDF
G. Leoncini: Contrasting Convective-Scale Perturbation Growth in Two Cases Over the UK
L. Wiegand: Upper-level disturbances over the low-latitude North Atlantic: Forecast quality, predictability and dynamics
D. Rostkier-Edelstein: Probabilistic nowcast of PBL profiles with a single column model and ensemble filter assimilation of surface observations
O. Pannekoucke: Hybrid wavelet/diffusion background error covariance matrix modelling
R. Frehlich: Definition of Ensemble Error Statistics for Optimal Ensemble Data Assimilation
Ó. Rögnvaldsson: Combination of ensemble weather forecasts and runoff simulations

NWP3 Observation targeting and observation impact studies
NWP5 Verfication

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