THORPEX PDP-5

5th Meeting THORPEX ICSC PDP Working Group

(Reading, UK, 18-20 June 2012)

• Report from the PDP working group
  C. Bishop, P. Harr, T. Jung (until 2011), S. Maeda, J. Methven (since 2011), M. Rodwell (since 2011), I. Szunyogh, O. Talagrand, H. Wernli
  
  
  

• Status of actions from the 4th meeting of the PDP WG
  
  

• IPO Update
  J. Caughey
  
  

• WGNE activities and plans
  A. Brown and C. Jakob
  
  

• The WWRP Polar Prediction Project
  T. Jung
  
  

• Sub-seasonal to seasonal Prediction Project
  F. Vitart
  
  

• DIAbatic influences on Mesoscale structures in Extratropical sTorms (DIAMET)
  G. Vaughan, J. Methven, I. Renfrew, D. Parker
  
  

• HYMEX - overview SOP 2012
  V. Ducrocq
  
  

• US Contributions to HyMEX SOP 2, Feb-Mar 2013
  C. H. Bishop
  
  

• THORPEX Legacy and options for a follow on programme

• Warm conveyor belts
  H. Wernli
  
  
  

• T-NAWDEX-Falcon 2012
  A. Schäfler, M. Boettcher, A. Dörnbrack, F. Harnisch and H. Wernli
  
  

• Met Office and ECMWF Asian Monsoons
  A. Brown presenting work by S. Milton, M. Rodwell and M. Willett
  
  
  

• Characteristics of occasional poor European forecasts
  M. Rodwell
  
  

• Atmospheric Rivers and British winter floods
  David Lavers
  

• Precipitation, Aerosols, and Pacific Atmospheric Rivers
  J.R. Spackman and F.M. Ralph

• THORPEX Africa Regional Committee Meeting, Geneva, 8-10 May 2012
  PDP Perspective
  Rosalind Cornforth
  
  

• T-PARC - most recent developments
  P. Harr
  
  

• Assessing the Efficiency of an Ensemble-Based Kalman Filter in Representing the Analysis Uncertainty
  I. Szunyogh and E. Satterfield
  
  

• Outcome of THORPEX for operational climate services on extreme events in Japan
  S. Maeda
  
  

• Assimilation of Observations and Bayesianity
  M. Jardak and O. Talagrand