MAP D-PHASE

A Forecast Demonstration Project within WWRP

First MAP D-PHASE Scientific Meeting
6-8 November 2006, Vienna, Austria

Programme

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Monday November 6th
C. Schär, C. Hohenegger, S. Jaun, M. Verbunt
Key note I: Predictability of alpine precipitation and floods: between hope and despair
Mathias Rotach
Key note II: Scientific challenges for MAP-D-PHASE
Session 1: Ensemble Prediction Systemschair: Tiziana Paccagnella
Ken Mylne, Neill Bowler, Alberto Arribas, Sarah John, Tim Legg
MOGREPS A Short-Range Regional Ensemble for Europe
Jose A. Garcia-Moya, A. Callado, C. Santos, D. Santos- Munoz, J. Simarro
Multimodel Ensemble for Short-Range Predictability
Yong Wang
Dealing with the uncertainties in the initial conditions in ALADIN-LAEF
Andrea Montani
The COSMO-LEPS system at ECMWF: present status and future plans
Chiara Marsigli
Use of model perturbations for short-range ensemble forecasting
Michael Denhard
The D-PHASE MICRO-PEPS
Session 2: High Resolution Modellingchair: Ken Mylne
Silvio Davolio, Andrea Buzzi, P. Malguzzi
Preliminary experience using MOLOCH in real-time configuration at ISAC-CNR
Yann Seity
Numerical simulations with the AROME high resolution model
Ron McTaggart-Cowan, Michel Desgangé, Jean Côté, Sylvie Gravel, Claude Girard, Amin Erfani
High-resolution operational modelling over complex terrain with the Canadian GEM model
Günther Zängl
The north-Alpine flooding events of May 1999 and August 2005: Microphysical and multi-scale dynamical aspects of orographic precipitation enhancement
Matthias Grzeschik, Florian Zus, Hans-Stefan Bauer, Volker Wulfmeyer, Jens Wickert, Galina Dick, Gerd Gendt
Assimilation of GPS Water Vapor Oberservations into the MM5 4DVAR System
Session 3: Related projectschair: Mathias Rotach
Andreas Behrendt, Volker Wulfmeyer, Christoph Kottmeier, Ulrich Corsmeier, Martin Hagen, George Craig, Hans-Stefan Bauer, and COPS ISSC
COPS: A Research and Development Project interlinked with D-PHASE
Claudia Wunram
Concept of COPS long term data archive
Tuesday November 7th
Session 3: Related projects (ctd)chair: Mathias Rotach
Jiandong Gong, Yihong Duan, Guo Deng, Yinglin Li, Hua Tian, Li Li
A review of WWRP meso-scale ensemble prediction research and development project for Beijing 2008 Olympics Game (WWRP/B08RDP)
Elizabeth Ebert, Tom Keenan, Jianjie Wang
The WWRP Beijing 2008 Olympics Forecast Demonstration Project (B08FDP)
Session 4: Hydrometeorological flood forecastchair: Roberto Ranzi & Christoph Hegg
G. Grossi, B.Bacchi, Roberto Buizza, Andrea Buzzi, P. Malguzzi, Roberto Ranzi
Toward the MAP D-PHASE experiment of a Hydrological Ensemble Prediction System
Silke Dierer
Improving the forecast of flash floods: First results within the PREVIEW project
Harald Kunstmann, Andreas Marx, Johannes Werhahn, Gerhard Smiatek
Early Flood Warning for Alpine catchments through Coupled Precipitation / River Runoff - Forecasts
T.Diomede, S.Davolio, C.Marsigli, M.M Miglietta , A. Morgillo, A.Moscatello
LAM multi model precipitation forecasts driving discharge predictions
Christoph Hegg, M. Zappa
YES/NO decision and probabilistic flood forecasting. How can MAP D-PHASE contribute to educate the end-users?
Session 5: Analysis & Nowcastingchair: Hans Volkert
Thomas Haiden
Combination of nowcasting and ensemble methods in quantitative precipitation forecasting
Urs Germann, Alessandro Hering, Marc Berenguer, Daniel Sempere-Torres, Giorgio Salvade
Ensemble radar precipitation estimation for nowcasting and hydrology in the Alps
Alessandro Hering, Urs Germann, Marco Boscacci, Stephane Senesi
Operational thunderstorm nowcasting in the Alpine region using 3D-radar severe weather parameters and lightning data
Benedikt Bica
High resolution precipitation analysis over complex terrain and recognition of orographic patterns in meteorological fields
Stefan Schneider, Manfred Dorninger, Reinhold Steinacker
Heavy rain and flooding in Central Europe in August 2005
Barbara Chimani, Wolfgang Gepp, Reinhold Steinacker, Matthias Ratheiser, Manfred Dorninger, Stefan Schneider, Simon Tschannett
A new 4D variational data analysis scheme in the framework of VERA
Poster sessionchair: Marco Arpagaus
Felix Ament
Contribution to MAP D-PHASE: aLMo2
Chiara Marsigli
First results of an intercomparison between COSMO-LEPS and PEPS
L. Montanari, C. Marsigli, A. Montani, T. Paccagnella, S. Pecora, F. Tonelli
Development of an ensemble flood forecasting system for the Po river basin
Peter Krahe, Jan Bliefernicht, Karlheinz Daamen, Christian Ebert, Uwe Ehret, Christoph Gebhardt, Michael Kunz, Janus Willem Schipper, Susanne Theis
The benefits of probabilistic flood forecasting in the River Iller basin
Günther Zängl
A high-resolution model validation for two north-Alpine flood cases
Petra Friederichs, Armin Mathes, Andreas Hense
Statistical downscaling of extreme precipitation events in terms of quantiles
Wen-Yih Sun, Jiun-Dar Chern, Ki-Hong Min
Snow-Soil Parameterization and Its Effect on 1997 Spring Flooding in Northern Plains
Frederic Jordan, Jean-Louis Boillat, Jerome Dubois, Anton Schleiss
MINERVE, a flood predicition and management tool for the Rhone river basin
Wednesday November 8th
Session 6: Verificationchair: Elizabeth Ebert & Chiara Marsigli
Paolo Ambrosetti, Lionel Fontannaz, Eugen Müller, Marco Stoll
Subjective evaluation by atmospheric forecasters
Manfred Dorninger, Theresa Gorgas, Reinhold Steinacker
NWP-model verification with VERA over complex terrain
Chiara Marsigli
High-resolution ensemble system verification: application to COSMO-LEPS
Christian Keil
A novel displacement based measure to assess the quality of mesoscale EPS forecasts
Elizabeth Ebert
Fuzzy verification of high resolution precipitation forecasts
Johannes Jenker
Synoptic impacts on the quality of the aLMo's precipitation analysis over Switzerland
Marcus Paulat
Novel approaches for the verification of high-resolution QPFs over Germany
Simon Jaun, André Walser, Massimiliano Zappa, Bodo Ahrens, Joachim Gurtz, Christoph Schär
On evaluation strategies for a coupled atmospheric-hydrologic ensemble prediction system

Local Organiser: Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna
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