Science Plan and SPM report
COSMO General Meeting, 9 September 2010
2 Science Plan and SPM report | COSMO General Meeting, 9 September 2010, MoscowMarco Arpagaus (marco.arpagaus [at] meteoswiss.ch)
спасибо большое всем!Thank all of you!
• Lots of interesting talks and many promising results.
• The Priority Projects are reaching important milestones. – COSMO-DE-EPS becomes pre-operational shortly!
• Priority Projects (and also some of the Working Groups) are building up common know-how, and the project members obviously enjoy to reach common goals together.
• At last, COSMO starts to become a large family, and does indeed develop a common spirit.
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Science Plan 2010-2014
What has been done since the last General Meeting:• submitted SP for an external review (SRNWP ETs and
COSMO-CLM; 7 reviews obtained)• addressed (most of the) questions, comments and
feedback by reviewers; did some structural and many editorial changes
main changes in content since last GM:• increased visibility of COSMO-CLM and COSMO-ART
to reflect their rising importance • added HP(2)C / PP POMPA issues
• Steering Committee approved the SP last Monday
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Science Plan 2010-2014: Summary
Goal: Operational forecasting of mesoscale weather
Strategy
Ensemble prediction system for the convective scale
Data assimilation system for the convective scale
Extension of environmental prediction capabilities
Verification and validation tool for the convective scale
Intermediate resolution COSMO version for BCs
Usage of massively parallel computer platforms
Intensified collaboration
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Science Plan: Next steps
• distribution to COSMO (and beyond) asap
• information of directors
• publication on COSMO web-site (public part!)
• update / next revision of Science Plan in roughly two years Science Plan 2012-2016
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Science Plan: Consequences
• Establishment of a new Working Group “Predictability and Ensemble Methods” (WG 7)
• Working Group “Interpretation and Applications” (WG 4)• “Interpretation”: stronger focus on forecaster issues (‘how
to use the models’) and case studies (forecasters as very demanding and candid users of the models)
• “Applications”: explicit inclusion of post-processing methods (calibration, MOS, …; fieldextra)
• invitation of COSMO-ART (Bernhard Vogel) and new DWD COSMO Coordinator (Uli Blahak) to the Scientific Management Committee
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Source code management for ‘COSMO Software’
Motivation:
• growing amount of software
• growing community contributing to the development of the software
‘COSMO Software’
A successful source code management needs
scientific planning
technical requirements
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‘COSMO software’
Technical requirements for software to become
‘COSMO software’:
• portable
• documented (internal & external)
• supported
Consequence for software to remain ‘COSMO software’:
• continuous and long-term maintenance
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‘COSMO software’
• COSMO model, including• forecast model• data assimilation system (nudging, ETKF filter)• provision of operational external parameters
(Note: EXTPAR will only be distributed for R&D and ‘as is’)• INT2LM
• fieldextra (COSMO post-processing tool)
• VERSUS (COSMO verification tool)
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Source code management for ‘COSMO Software’
Scientific planning
• clear strategy• Science Plan• Priority Projects and Priority Tasks• yearly Work Plans
• clear responsibilities (inside COSMO) and focal points (outside of the consortium (e.g., COSMO-CLM, COSMO-ART))
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Source code management for ‘COSMO Software’
Scientific Management Committee (SMC) is responsible
for the scientific planning related to (and needed for) the
source code management:
• release planning and priority setting
• definition of responsibilities (in accordance with resource planning by STC) and focal points (in accordance with respective planning by e.g., COSMO-CLM and COSMO-ART)
This transfers substantial responsibility (mainly) from
Ulrich Schättler / DWD to the SMC / COSMO!
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Source code management for ‘COSMO Software’
Technical requirements
• clear rules• coding standards• documentation standards• quality control standards (test experiments, verification)
• transparency ( ‘redmine’, ‘codendi’, …)• release planning• setting of priorities
tbd by WG 6; a
pproval by STC in March 2011