The first
EUMETNET
Nowcasting Conference will be held in Vienna, Austria, from April 29
to 30, 2014. This conference is organized in the frame of
EUMETNET (European Meteorological
Network) which includes an activity dedicated to nowcasting. This
activity started in January 2013 and is coordinated by ZAMG. The goal
of the conference is to promote recent advances in the theory and
practice of nowcasting in Europe and other parts of the world. The
conference welcomes participants from operational, research, and
forecast user communities to discuss methods for improving the quality
of nowcasting in use as well as respective observations and
verification standards.
The conference includes both a
scientific program followed by discussions on future cooperation in
nowcasting in Europe. The scientific program will feature keynote
addresses as well as contributed talks related to the practice of
nowcasting. During the conference four sessions will be devoted to
nowcasting (see topics). In each session there will be room for
discussions as well as at the end of the conference.
Topics include:
- Nowcasting techniques and systems
- Scientific and technical aspects of the systems
- Use of observations, data pre-processing and QC techniques
- Use of NWP techniques and products
- Deterministic/probabilistic solutions
- Conceptual models and heuristic methods
- Downstream application modules
- Nowcasting products
- Observation and NWP
- Nowcasting requirements for observation systems
- Data assimilation
- The role of NWP in nowcasting applications
- Verification and societal/economic impacts
- Verification methods
- Verification of nowcasting systems including case studies
- High impact events
- Validating societal and economic impacts
- Application and user aspect
- User requirements
- Use of nowcasting information in decision making systems
- Recommendations
The call for abstracts is closed!
