Seminar and Discussion Series
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 had two keynote speakers from research and operational centre (representative of ongoing work in Australia, Europe, India, USA) followed by a plenary discussion. The 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 |
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 | ||