Mesoscale Weather Forecasting Research

To promote, organize and/or endorse end-to-end weather research and development projects (RDPs) that advance understanding of weather processes, improve forecasting techniques and increase the utility of forecast information with an emphasis on high-impact weather.

News

The HyMeX (HYdrological cycle in the Mediterranean EXperiment) Project becomes a WWRP project: HyMEX received an endorsement at the last meeting of the WWRP Joint Science Committee. HyMex aims at a better understanding and quantification of the hydrological cycle and related processes in the Mediterranean, with emphasis on high-impact weather events, inter-annual to decadal variability of the Mediterranean coupled system, and associated trends in the context of global change. The hydrological cycle in the Mediterranean is a key environmental and socio-economic question for a wide region encompassing southern Europe, northern Africa and the Middle East. Further information on HyMEX can be found at http://www.hymex.org/ with the 4th HyMex Workshop to be held during the 8-12 June 2010.

Convective and Orographically induced Precipitation Study (COPS)

Mesoscale Alpine Programme (MAP)

Demonstration of Probabilistic Hydrological and Atmospheric Simulation of Flood Events in the Alpine Region (MAP D-PHASE)

Chair: J. Onvlee, KNMI, The Netherlands
jeanette.onvlee@knmi.nl
V. Wulfmeyer, Uni Hohenheim, Germany
wulfmeyer@uni-hohenheim.de
M. Rotach, Meteoswiss, Switzerland
mathias.rotach@meteoswiss.ch
Y. Duan, National Met Center, China
duanyh@mail.typhoon.gov.cn
D. Barker, Met Office, UK
dale.barker@metoffice.gov.uk
S. Belair, Met Service of Canada
stephane.belair@ec.gc.ca
K. Saito, Met Research Institute, Japan
ksaito@mri-jma.go.jp
J. Dudhia, NCAR, USA
dudhia@ucar.edu

Sixth Workshop and Science Meeting of the Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS) (27-29 February 2008, Stuttgart, Germany)

Second Meeting of the Working Group on Mesoscale Weather Forecasting Research (Tokyo, Japan, 17-18 March 2008)

From May 16-19, 2008, the 2nd scientific meeting of D-PHASE, Demonstration of Probabilistic Hydrological and Atmospheric Simulation of Flood Events in the Alpine region, was held in Bologna, Italy

Fifth WMO International Symposium on Data Assimilation (Melbourne, Australia, 5 to 9 October 2009)

Joint Meeting Working Group on Verification Research and Working Group on Mesoscale Forecasting Research
(Shanghai, China, 1-3 December 2008)

Working Group Publications

Report of the First Meeting of the Working Group on Mesoscale Weather Forecasting Research (Dubrovnik, Croatia, 10 October 2007)

Scientific Publications of Interest

The Convective and Orographically Induced Precipitation Study (Source: Bulletin of American Meteorological Society, October 2008)