3rd International Surface Working Group (ISWG) Workshop
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
15-17 July 2019
MONDAY, 15 JULY 2019 (start at 08:30)
Welcome remarks and logistics
(08:30) Gianpaolo Balsamo (ECMWF), Ben Ruston (NRL), and Stephane Belair (ECCC): Welcome to the meeting and logistics items
(08:45) Pierre Pellerin (ECCC): Broad ECCC vision for numerical environmental prediction
State of land surface systems at national centers
(09:00) Sujay Kumar (NASA/GSFC): State of the Land Information System
(09:20) Nadia Fourrie (Meteo-France): Status at Meteo-France
(09:40) Stephane Belair (ECCC): Status at ECCC
(10:00) Patricia de Rosnay (ECMWF): Status at ECMWF
(10:20) Health break
(10:40) Samantha Pullen (UK Met Office): Status at the UK Met Office
(11:00) Martin Lange (DWD): Status at DWD
(11:20) Kei Yoshimura (University of Tokyo): Japenese Status (ILS, MIROC)
(11:20) Clara Draper (NOAA ESRL / CU CIRES): Status at the NOAA
(11:20) Plenary session: Items to be discussed at the meeting, review of action items, and recommendations
LUNCH (~12:15 to 13:30)
Land surface modeling
(13:30) Stephane Belair (ECCC): Using upper-air and land surface analyses to optimize the surface-atmosphere interactions in global numerical weather prediction
(13:50) Zied Sassi (Meteo-France): Study of satellite observations synergy in order to improve surface temperature in NWP
(14:10) Libo Wang (ECCC): Assessment of the CCI Land Cover Product for Use in the Canadian Land Surface Scheme
(14:30) Health Break and poster viewing
International programs, databases, and products
(15:30) Sarah Ringerud (University of Maryland): An Active-Passive Microwave Land Surface Database from GPM
(15:50) Sara Sadri (Princeton University): Global Near-Real-Time Drought Monitor Using Integrated SMOS-SMAP Soil Moisture Data
(16:10) Miguel Nogueira (University of Lisbon): ERA5 reanalysis cold bias of maximum land surface temperature in Iberia: The role of vegetation
(16:30) Sujay Kumar (NASA/GSFC): Remote sensing and data assimilation for the characterization of human management impacts: Successes and challenges
TUESDAY, 16 JULY 2019 (start at 08:30)
Land data assimilation (20 min each — pause at 10:00)
(08:30) Martin Lange (DWD): Developments in surface analysis at DWD
(08:50) Marco L. Carrera (ECCC): Implementation of the Canadian Land Data Assimilation System (CaLDAS) based upon the assimilation of space-based remote sensing observations for soil moisture and skin temperatures
(09:10) Cristina Charlton-Perez (UK Met Office): Overview of the Met Office land surface data assimilation system
(09:30) Rolf Reichle (NASA/GSFC): Using rainfall observations to verify the SMAP Level-4 soil moisture analysis in Australia
(09:50) Kei Yoshimura (University of Tokyo): Development of global terrestrial hydrological monitoring and forecasting system Today's Earth
(10:10) Health break
(10:40) Clement Albergel (Meteo-France): Data assimilation for continuous global assessment of severe conditions over terrestrial surfaces
(11:00) Clara Draper (NOAA ESRL / CU CIRES): Assimilation of Satellite Soil Moisture for Improved Atmospheric Reanalyses
Carbon cycle and vegetation modeling
(11:20) Gianpaolo Balsamo (ECMWF): The European CO2 Human Emission CHE project, precursors of a CO2 Copernicus monitoring service
(11:40) Min Huang (George Mason University): Use of Earth Observations and Earth System Modeling to Study Anthropogenic Emission Impacts on Atmosphere-Biosphere Interactions
LUNCH (~12:00 to 13:30)
(13:30) Sophia Walther (MPI-Biogeochemistry): Spaceborne observations of the land surface for the data-driven modelling of terrestrial carbon and energy exchange
(13:50) Planery session: Discussion on "snow-free" aspects of land surface modelling, remote sensing, and data assimilation
(14:40) Health break
Snow missions and datasets
(15:00) Chris Derksen (ECCC): A Dual-Frequency Ku-band Radar Mission Concept for Seasonal Snow
(15:20) Ali Nadir Arslan (FMI): The European Efforts on a Better Harmonization of Snow Observations, Modelling and Data Assimilation: EU COST Action ES1404-HarmoSnow
(15:40) Ross Brown (ECCC): Evaluation of snow water equivalent datasets over the Saint-Maurice river basin region of southern Quebec.
(16:00) Yvan Orsolini (NILU): Evaluation of snow depth and snow-cover over the Tibetan Plateau in global reanalyses using in-situ and satellite remote sensing observations.
Ice / glaciers
(16:20) Aku Riihela (FMI): The surface albedo of the Greenland Ice Sheet between 1982 and 2015, and its connection to the ice sheet's surface mass balance and ice discharge
(16:40) Yijian Zeng (University of Twente): Is soil ice content detectable from remote sensing?
WEDNESDAY, 17 JULY 2019 (start at 08:30)
Snow modeling
(08:30) Vincent Vionnet (University of Saskatchewan): Multi-scale snowdrift-resolving modelling of mountain snowpack evolution
(08:50) Yoichi Hirahara (ECMWF): Evaluation of the land surface radiative transfer model CMEM for snow covered regions
Snow data assimilation (pause at 10:30)
(09:30) Samantha Pullen (UK Met Office): Snow data assimilation developments at the Met Office
(09:50) Patricia de Rosnay (ECMWF): Impact of snow cover data assimilation over the Tibetan Plateau on Medium Range Numerical Weather Prediction
(10:10) Camille Garnaud (ECCC): On the ongoing snow-related improvements in Environment and Climate Change Canada's land surface model and data assimilation system
(10:30) Health break
(10:50) Camille Birman (Meteo-France): Snow analysis for NWP at Météo France and recent developments on land surface analysis
(11:10) Patricia de Rosnay (ECMWF) and Samantha Pullen (UK Met Office): SnowWatch -- Status of Realtime Snow Reporting
(11:10) Final plenary session
(12:00) END of MEETING, around noon.
Posters (showing on Monday)