[ET-OWFS-2] Expert Team on Operational Weather Forecasting System

The World Meteorological Congress at its eighteenth session through Resolution 7 (Cg-18) – Establishment of WMO Technical Commissions for the Eighteenth Financial Period, decided to establish, in accordance with Article 8 (g) of the Convention, two technical commissions for the eighteenth financial period: a Commission for Observation, Infrastructure and Information Systems (INFCOM) and a Commission for Weather, Climate, Water and Related Environmental Services and Applications (SERCOM). INFCOM held its first meeting virtually through three parts in 2020 and 2021 and decided priority areas to be addressed during the 2020-2023 inter-sessional period.  

In that context, the ET-OWFS under INFCOM/ Standing Committee on Data Processing for Applied Earth System Modelling and Prediction (SC-ESMP) will meet to discuss key priority areas of work for the intersessional period till INFCOM-3 (2024).

The final meeting report is available here.

 

Tuesday, 31 January 2023

Time

Agenda Item

Presenter/

Agenda item

08:30-09:00

Arrival

 

09:00-09:20

Welcoming remarks

  • DWD – Roland Potthast
  • ET-OWFS – Ken Mylne and Stephanie Landman
  • Secretariat – Yuki Honda

1.1

09:20-09:30

Opening

Organization of the meeting

Ken Mylne /

2.1; 2.2

09:30-09:40

Round table introduction

ET members /

1.2

09:40-10:00

Introduction of GDPFS and ET-OWFS

(ET-OWFS's ToR can be found here.)

Secretariat /

3.1

10:00-10:15

Overall report on outcomes of INFCOM-2

Secretariat /

3.2

10:15-10:30

Relevant resolutions/decisions/recommendations of constituent bodies

Secretariat /

3.3

10:30-10:45

Development of the Guidelines on High-resolution Numerical Weather Prediction

Ken Mylne /

3.4

10:45-11:00

Coffee break

 

11:00-11:15

Renewal of the Guide to the GDPFS (WMO-No. 305)

Secretariat /

3.5

11:15-11:30

Seamless GDPFS/WIPPS Roadmap

Wai Kin Wong /

3.6

11:30-11:50

Issues on discoverability and accessibility of GDPFS products and plans for WIS2

Secretariat /

3.7

11:50-12:05

Integration of TIGGE/S2S data archive into GDPFS

Secretariat /

3.8

12:05-12:20

Key Performance Indices for Strategic Objective 2.3

Secretariat /

3.9

12:20-13:30

Group Photo / Lunch break

 

13:30-14:00

Review of action items from the meeting of ET-OWFS-1

Ken Mylne & members / 4.1

14:00-14:20

Status of LC-DNV

Thomas Haiden /

4.2

14:20-14:40

Status of LC-EPSV

Masaaki Ikegami /

4.3

14:40-15:00

Status of LC-WFV

Thomas Haiden /

4.4

15:00-15:15

Coffee break

 

15:15-16:30

Regional status of GDPFS/NWP implementation

  1. Introduction of GDPFS Dashboard - Secretariat
  2. RA I – Stephanie Landman
  3. RA II – Kan Dai
  4. RA III – Secretariat
  5. RA IV – Amin Erfani
  6. RA V – Charmaine Franklin
  7. RA VI – Chiara Marsigli
  1. 4.5 (1)
  2. 4.5 (2)
  3. 4.5 (3)
  4. 4.5 (4)
  5. 4.5 (5)
  6. 4.5 (6)
  7. 4.5 (7)

16:30-17:30

A visit to DWD HPC System

Manuel Reiter (Head of Computer Systems Support, DWD) 

 

Wednesday, 1 February 2023

09:00-09:50

 

 

 

Regional status of GDPFS/NWP implementation

3. RA II – Kan Dai

4. RA III 

5. RA IV – Amin Erfani

6. RA V – Charmaine Franklin

7. RA VI – Chiara Marsigli

 

3. 4.5 (3)

4. 4.5 (4)

5. 4.5 (5)

6. 4.5 (6)

7. 4.5 (7)

 

 

 

 

09:50-10:20

Recommendations from Advisory Group on Tropical Cyclones

Andrew Burton /

5.3

10:20-10:40

Coffee break

 

10:40-12:20

Brief report of GDPFS Symposium on Requirements for NWP Data and Products

Introduction of GDPFS work plan to follow up the WMO Unified Data Policy

Discussion on implementation of the provision of core data

Secretariat /

5.1

Ken Mylne /

5.2

Ken Mylne /

5.4

12:20-13:30

Lunch break

 

13:30-14:15

Discussion on implementation of the provision of core data

 /

5.4

14:15-15:00

Support to SWFP

Monica Sharma /

7.3

15:00-15:30

A visit to operational forecasting section

Franz Mole (Head of DWD Forecast and Advisory Centre, DWD)

15:30-15:50

Coffee break

 

15:50-16:10

Introduction of Guide on Review Process of Designated GDPFS Centre Compliance

Stephanie Landman / 6.1

Risk analysis (1) (2)

 

16:10-17:00

Development of compliance review plan, including self-assessment questionnaires

Stephanie Landman / 6.2

Questionnaire

17:00-17:30

Discussion on compliance where a centre does not produce a specified product for its own purposes

Ken Mylne /

6.3

 

Thursday, 2 February 2023

09:00-10:00

Review of functions and core data of RSMCs for nowcasting and limited-area NWPs

Ken Mylne /

5.5

10:00-11:00

Discussion on a potential pilot project for the access to high-resolution NWP for initial and boundary conditions of LAM

Ken Mylne /

5.6

11:00-11:20

Coffee break

 

11:20-12:20

WIPPS Pilot Project

Wai Kin Wong /

7.5

12:20-13:30

Lunch break

 

13:30-14:00

Contribution to African Hazards Watch

Secretariat /

7.4

14:00-14:30

Support to the cryosphere <recommendation from SG-CRYO (GCWAG)>

Secretariat /

7.2

14:30-15:00

Practical guidance to implement verification procedures at Members running NWP models (Dec.56 (EC-68))

Secretariat /

7.1

15:00-15:30

Expected outcomes for INFCOM-3 (2024)

Ken Mylne /

8.1

15:30-15:50

Break

 

15:50-16:30

Development of the workplan

Ken Mylne /

8.2

16:30-16:45

AOB

 

16:45-17:00

Closing

Ken Mylne