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•  Decide on forecasts for workshop: resolution, start date(s) and forecast length : all runs start 00UTC 20 Sept 2012
•  Decide what to do about provision of satellite imagery  (ENM to provide images to avoid licensing issues)
  
•  Extract data from the archive.
•  Run ensemble forecasts
•  Book accommodation
•  Install SCM on OpenIFS VM
•  Get PCA code from Linus & try it
•  Get USB sticks from comms
•  Frédéric to check last year's VM will run on classroom PCs and ensure VirtualBox (or VMware) is installed. Check for observations we might have in the archive for HYMEX that could be used

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Notes

SCM exercises - sensitvity of the model to changing physics. Focus on convection, initiation of deep convection. Stochastic physics, impact on convection? impact of convective scheme?

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