[ET-OWFS-2] Expert Team on Operational Weather Forecasting System
Offenbach, Germany
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).
MEETNING INFORMATION
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MEETING AGENDA
Day 1 - Tuesday, 31 January 2023 | ||
| Time | Agenda Item | Presenter/ Agenda item |
| 08:30-09:00 | Arrival | |
| 09:00-09:20 | Welcoming remarks
| 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
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| 16:30-17:30 | A visit to DWD HPC System | Manuel Reiter (Head of Computer Systems Support, DWD) |
Day 2 - 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 |
| 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 |
Day 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 |