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Short Report of 28th Meeting of theCOSMO Steering Committee (STC)

Rome, 5 September 2011

Detlev Majewski, Head of STCDeutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach, Germany

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COSMO STC Meeting, 5 September 2011

Participants:

Detlev Majewski (Germany; Head of STC)

Panagiotis Skrimizeas (Greece)

Massimo Ferri (Italy; Minutes)

Michal Ziemianski (Poland)

Gheorghe Stancalie (Romania)

Dmitry Kiktev (Russia)

Philippe Steiner (Switzerland)

Marco Arpagaus (Switzerland, SPM)

 

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COSMO license issues, Part I Status of contracts

Current operational licensees (20.000 € annual fee each)

United Arab Emirates (NCMS) since July 2010

Brazil (INMET) since January 2011

Oman (DGMAN) since January 2011

Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya since August 2011.

The license income cannot be transferred from one year to the next!

Except Catalunya, all countries have been HRM users before. All countries use GME (30 km L60) LBC data.

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COSMO license issues, Part II Income and activity proposals in 2011, procedures

Income from license fees in 2011: 68.500 €

Number of Activity Proposals received so far: 25

Money spent (and accepted) until Sep. 2011: 60.000 €

44.000 € is planned for further development of fieldextra

For 2012, please send your Activity Proposals as early as possible to the Head of STC and SPM!

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COSMO license issues, Part III Strategy for enhancing number of licensees,

COSMO model contract for developing countries

STC supports the idea to increase the number of licensees!

• Former HRM community (e.g. Botswana, Brazil (DHN), Malaysia)

• Annual Capacity Building Workshop in July advertised via WMO

• Advertisement of COSMO license on COSMO Webpage

COSMO contract for developing countries

Contract which will be issued starting January 2013, before, the scientific contract will be used to allow HRM users to migrate to the COSMO model.

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Current operational HRM users

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Severe Weather Forecast Demonstration Projectfor East Africa

GoalsEnhancement of technical capacity in operational weather forecasting and advancement in service delivery to general public and key application areas such as agriculture and fisheries, in countries of the region, including Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.

1st Workshop: NAIROBI, KENYA, 04 – 08 OCTOBER 2010http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/CBS-Reports/documents/Final_report_SWFDP-Eastern_Africa-Nairobi_workshop.pdf

2nd Workshop: NAIROBI, KENYA, 21 – 24 JUNE 2011http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/CBS-Reports/documents/RSMT-SWFDP-EA-Meeting-Report.pdf

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U. Blahak in Nairobi at the SWFDP planning workshops

04 – 08 OCTOBER 2010 21 – 24 JUNE 2011

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STC approves the PP CORSO and PT Mire

STC approves a new task within PT Support Activities: Support of COSMO licensees

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Elections: Head of STC, SPM, WG5 Coordinator

Head of STC: Philippe Steiner

SPM: Michal Ziemianski

WG5 Coordinator: Flora Gofa

CONGRATULATIONS! Work will start on 1 Jan. 2012!

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STC approves the COSMO Standards for Source Code Development which strengthen role of SMC, and thanks the author(s).

STC elects the SCAs:

U. Schättler for COSMO,

J. M. Bettems for fieldextra,

A. Chelloni for Versus

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STC assigns 0.50 FTE for each WGC.

STC assigns 0.75 FTE for the SPM.

STC assigns 0.10 FTE for source code management tasks in fieldextra and Versus.

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GM 2012 in Switzerland

10 – 14 September 2012

Lugano

Palazzo di Congressi

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Job opportunities at DWD

10 fixed-term (3 years) positions in R&D starting on 1 Jan. 2012

(6 in data assimilation: ask C. Schraff,2 in physical aspects: ask B. Ritter

2 in ensemble forecasting: ask M. Buchhold)

10 fixed-term (4 years) positions in R&D starting onApril to June 2012 in a renewable energy project

(awaiting final aprovement): ask D. Majewski

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Job opportunity at the University of Cottbus

ask A. Will!

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Thank you for your attention!