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

2013

• Mesoscale Working Group Meeting
  (Montreal, Canada, 8-10 May )
  
  
  2012
• European Geoscience Union - General Assembly 2012
  (Vienna, Austria, 22-27 April)

• 16th International Road Weather Conference
  (Helsinki, Finland, 23-25 May)

• Chair: J. Onvlee, KNMI, The Netherlands
  jeanette.onvlee at knmi.nl
• V. Wulfmeyer, Uni Hohenheim, Germany
  wulfmeyer at uni-hohenheim.de
• M. Rotach, University of Innsbruck, Austria
  mathias.rotach at uibk.ac.at
• D. Barker, Met Office, UK
  dale.barker at metoffice.gov.uk
• S. Belair, Met Service of Canada
  stephane.belair at ec.gc.ca
• K. Saito, Met Research Institute, Japan
  ksaito at mri-jma.go.jp
• J. Dudhia, NCAR, USA
  dudhia at ucar.edu
• H. Yu, Shanghai Typhoon Institute, China
  yuh at mail.typhoon.gov.cn
• P. Steinle, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
  p.steinle at bom.gov.au
• Permanent guest: T. Paccagnella, Environmental Protection Agency (Regional Met Service - ARPA ER), Italy
  tpaccagnella at arpa.emr.it

• The HyMeX (HYdrological cycle in the Mediterranean EXperiment) Project

• HyMeX Task Teams for Modelling on Data  Assimilation (TTM4)

• Convective and Orographically induced Precipitation Study (COPS)

Completed Projects

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

2011

• WMO Joint Working Group Nowcasting Research and Working Group Mesoscale Weather Forecasting Research Workshop on the use of NWP for Nowcasting (Boulder, CO, USA, 24-26 October 2011)
  Presentations
  
  

• German Symposium on Data Assimilation (Offenbach, Germany, 28-30 September 2011)
  
  
• Meeting of the Working Group on Mesoscale Forecasting Research (Berlin, Germany, 11 September 2011) [Report], [provisional agenda], Presentations: [Barker], [Bélair], [Bélair et al.], [Steinle et al.], [Saito et al.], [Wulfmeyer], [Wulfmeyer et al.], [Overview], [Workshop modeling in complex terrain], [Possible new actions], [WMO Typhoon Landfall Forecast Demonstration Project]
  

• Joint Meeting of the Working Group on Mesoscale Forecasting Research and Working Group on Forecast Verification Research (Berlin, Germany, 10 September 2011)
  
  2010
  
  
• Third International Conference on QPE/QPF and Hydrology (QPE/QPF-III) (Nanjing, China, 18-22 October 2010)
  
  
• Meeting of the Working Group on Mesoscale Forecasting Research (Boulder, CO, USA, 26-27 August 2010)

Key Publications

Weusthoff, T., et al., 2010. Assessing the Benefits of Convection-Permitting Models by Neighborhood Verification: Examples from MAP D-PHASE, Monthly Weather Review, 138 (9), 3418-3433, DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3380.1.

Wulfmeyer, V., et al., 2011. Special Issue: Advances in the understanding of convective processes and precipitation over low mountain regions through the Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS), Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 137, (S1), 1-348.

The COPS Overview Paper in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (Wulfmeyer, V., et al., 2011. The Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS): the scientific strategy, the field phase, and research highlights, 137, 3-30, 2011) has been identified as New Hot Paper in Geosciences by Thomson Reuters.

Zappa, M., et al., 2008. MAP D-PHASE: Real-time demonstration of hydrological ensemble prediction systems, Atmospheric Science Letters, 9 (2), 80-87, DOI: 10.1002/asl.183.

Zappa M., et al., 2011. Superposition of three sources of uncertainties in operational flood forecasting chains, Atmospheric Research, 100 (2-3), 246-262, DOI:10.1016/j.atmosres.2010.12.005.