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.
Introduction to the IESWG seminar topicBen Ruston &
Gianpaolo Balsamo

IESWG

Chairs

Transitioning towards a seamless hydrological modelling strategy at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology

Elisabetta Carrara & Christoph RudigerBOM - Australia

Initialization of Soil Moisture in Numerical Weather Prediction

John P. GeorgeNCMRWF - India

Plenary Session discussion

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wk8uBzC-xaFRcuVgoZXnieaBCmBp7xTsN3JIxItnd50/edit?usp=sharing


Vegetation and land-atmosphere fluxes
21 October 2021  - 13:00-14:30 BST

Introduction the IESWG seminar topicBen Ruston &
Gianpaolo Balsamo

IESWG

Chairs

Exploring the relation of temperature forecast performance to climate, circulation, soil and vegetation variables

Melissa RuizBGC MPI-Jena

Assimilation of satellite retrieved land surface temperature, and future plans at Météo France for Earth surface assimilation

Camille BirmanMétéo-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
https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)1477-870X.coupled-assimilation


Snow ice and cryosphere-atmosphere interaction
23 September 2021  - 13:00-14:30 BST

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 ArduiniECMWF

Sea Ice Assimilation in Navy Modeling Systems

Richard AllardNRL - U.S.

Plenary Session discussion

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1etcXmNa1Em249056ictOXqdeCWAjJpaXJAlarAHxsVI/edit?usp=sharing