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As COVID-19 as changed the outlook for rapidly convening a new International Earth Surface Working Group (IESWG) meeting, we have organized a seminar and discussion series. Three focus topics covered advances in (a) Soil moisture, River-discharge and Water cycle, (b) Vegetation and Land-Atmosphere fluxes, and (c) Snow and Ice and Cryosphere-Atmosphere interaction.
Each seminar has a focus topic and had two keynote speakers from research and operational centre (representative of ongoing work in Australia, Europe, India, USA) followed by a plenary discussion. The virtual conference platform is Bluejeans. Please find the connection information below.seminars have been well attended and the presentation with notes from the discussions and the recordings are posted below.
In 2022 a IESWG Remote working group meeting will take place on the 5th/6th April 2022, announcement to follow.
| Soil moisture, river-discharge and water cycle 18 Nov2021 07:00-08:30 UTC. | ||||||||
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| Introduction to the IESWG seminar topic | Ben Ruston & Gianpaolo Balsamo | IESWG Chairs | ||||||
Transitioning towards a seamless hydrological modelling strategy at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology
| Elisabetta Carrara & Christoph Rudiger | BOM - Australia | ||||||
Initialization of Soil Moisture in Numerical Weather Prediction
| John P. George | NCMRWF - India | ||||||
Plenary Session discussion https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wk8uBzC-xaFRcuVgoZXnieaBCmBp7xTsN3JIxItnd50/edit?usp=sharing | ||||||||
Vegetation and land-atmosphere fluxes | ||||||||
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| Introduction the IESWG seminar topic | Ben Ruston & Gianpaolo Balsamo | IESWG Chairs | ||||||
Exploring the relation of temperature forecast performance to climate, circulation, soil and vegetation variables
| Melissa Ruiz | BGC MPI-Jena | ||||||
Assimilation of satellite retrieved land surface temperature, and future plans at Météo France for Earth surface assimilation
| Camille Birman | Météo-France | ||||||
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Plenary Session discussion https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kECVV3hZazBr-KBCjOaLftx2XJ9BAy7T1a2jgA4Ily4/edit?usp=sharing Announcement of QJRMS Special Collection on Earth System Coupled Assimilation led by Patricia De Rosnay et al | ||
Snow ice and cryosphere-atmosphere interaction | ||||||||
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Introduction to the IESWG and the 2021 seminar series
| Ben Ruston & Gianpaolo Balsamo | IESWG Chairs | ||||||
Multi-layer snow modelling and cryosphere-atmosphere interactions in the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System
| Gabriele Arduini | ECMWF | ||||||
Sea Ice Assimilation in Navy Modeling Systems
| Richard Allard | NRL - U.S. | ||||||
Plenary Session discussion https://docs.google.com/document/d/1etcXmNa1Em249056ictOXqdeCWAjJpaXJAlarAHxsVI/edit?usp=sharing | ||||||||