Programme


European Nowcasting and 

Weather Forecasting Conference 

ENWFC-2024 

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04 – 08 November 2024,  

Oslo Science Park 

Oslo, Norway 


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Monday, 04 November 2024 

14:30 - 15:00 Arrival of participants; installing of posters 


OPENING SESSION 

Session chair: Solfrid Agersten (MET Norway) solfrida@met.no 


15:00 – 15:10

Welcome addresses 

Roar Skålin, director in general of MET Norway  


15:10 – 15:20

Introduction to ENWFC-2024 

Solfrid Agersten (MET Norway), Kathrine Lindsay (MET Norway) 


15:20 – 15:30 

Introduction to EUMETNET - Weather Forecasting Cooperation: E-WF

Franziska Schmid(GeoSphere Austria), Chiara Marsigli (DWD), Stéphane Vannitsem (RMI), Francesca Marcucci(ITAFMet), Alfons Callado (AEMET) 


15:30 – 16:00 

Keynote: “It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" 

Jørn Kristiansen (Met Norway) 


16:00 – 16:30 

Keynote: Early Warning Center 

Jitske Burgers (KNMI) 


16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break 


OBSERVATIONS AS BASIS FOR NOWCASTING, VERY SHORT RANGE FORECASTING AND SITUATIONAL  AWARENESS 

Session chair: Aitor Atencia (GeoSphere Austria)  Aitor.ATENCIA@geosphere.at 


17:00 – 17:20

Meteosat Third Generation: entering a new era of satellite-based nowcasting and collaboration  among European NMHS 

Stephan Bojinski (EUMETSAT), Vesa Nietosvaara (EUMETSAT), Roope Tervo (EUMETSAT)


17:20 – 17:40 

Severe thunderstorm cases as seen by new-generation satellite products Vesa Nietosvaara (EUMETSAT); Natasa Strelec Mahovic (EUMETSAT); Tomas Pucik (ESSL); Stephan  Bojinski (EUMETSAT)

 

17:40 – 18:00 

Nowcasting and Early Warning Systems Across WMO Regions Associations: A Pre-EW4ALL  Assessment 

Paola Veronica Salio (Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmosfera), Luciana Stoll (SMN,  Argentina), Daniela D´Amen (SMN, Argentina), Estelle De Coning (WMO, Switzerland), Hellen Msemo  (WMO, Switzerland), Franziska Schmid (GeoSphere Austria, Austria), Solfrid Agersten (The Norwegian  Meteorological Institute, Norway), Anders Sivle (Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute, Slovakia), André  Simon (The Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Norway) and Julia Chasco (WMO, Switzerland) 


18:30 – 20:00 

Icebreaker 

20:00 End of day 1

Tuesday, 05 November 2024 

08:15 - 08:30 Arrival of participants 


OBSERVATIONS AS BASIS FOR NOWCASTING, VERY SHORT RANGE FORECASTING AND SITUATIONAL AWARENESS 

Session chair: Maarten Reyniers (RMI)  maarten.reyniers@meteo.be   


08:30 – 08:50 

Lightning density “NRTS” as a verification and forecasting tool for lightning events in Norway 

Sevim M.-Gulbrandsen (Meteorologisk institutt); Leonidas Tsopouridis (Meteorologisk institutt, Norway);  Ola Bakke Aashamar (Meteorologisk institutt, Norway); Susana Reuder (Meteorologisk institutt,  Norway); Nina Helen Pedersen (Meteorologisk institutt, Norway); Ingvild Villa (Meteorologisk institutt,  Norway); Charalampos Sarchosidis (Meteorologisk institutt, Norway) 


08:50 - 09:10

A Demonstration Citizen Science Project for Hail Collection: Motivations, Challenges and  Outcomes 

Liye Li (World Meteorological Organization), Qinghong Zhang (Peking University), David Johnston  (Massey University), Marion Tan (Massey University)


09:10 – 09:30 Integrating and validating crowdsourced data to improve MET Nordic Analysis 

Amélie Neuville (Norwegian Meteorological Institute); Thomas N. Nipen, Ivar A. Seierstad, Line  Båserud, Cristian Lussana 


09:30 - 10:30 

Coffee break / watching posters 


09:30 – 10:15

E-WFC Meeting (only for E-WFC Managers) 


POSTER SESSION 

Session chair: Chiara Marsigli (DWD) Chiara.Marsigli@dwd.de  


10:30 – 12:00 

POSTER Session (few minutes presentation per poster)** 


12:00 – 13:00 

Lunch break 


NOWCASTING AND POSTPROCESSING TECHNIQUES, SYSTEMS AND PRODUCTS 

Session chair: Jonathan Demaeyer (RMI) Jonathan.Demaeyer@meteo.be 


13:00 – 13:20 

Autoregressive Extensions of EMOS with Application to Surface Temperature Ensemble  Postprocessing 

Annette Möller (Bielefeld University); David Jobst (University of Hildesheim, Germany), Jürgen Groß (University of Hildesheim, Germany) 


13:20 - 13:40 

Gradient-Boosted Mixture Models for Postprocessing Ensemble Weather Forecasts 

David Jobst (University of Hildesheim) 


13:40 – 14:00 

Nowcasting the extreme deep convective systems in central Argentina using spatio-temporal  deep neural networks 

Aguirre Leandro Axel (FaCENA-UNNE. IMIT-CONICET); Pulido Manuel (FaCENA-UNNE. IMIT CONICET, Argentina); Ruiz Juan (DCAO-UBA. CIMA-CONICET, Argentina)

 

14:00 – 14:20 

Group Photo

All


14:20 – 14:50 

Coffee break 


14:50 – 16:50

DISCUSSION (specific topics) for participants of ENWFC-2024 

SRNWP-EPS Workshop for SRNWP-EPS Members


16:50 End of day 2

** Posters 

Evaluating Numerical Weather Prediction Model for Convective Clouds: A Case Study of the September 2022 Flood in Italy's  Marche Region. 

Paolo Francesco Duminuco (CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Italy); Paola Mercogliano (CMCC  Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate 

Change, Italy); Giuseppe Giugliano (CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Italy); Giusy Fedele (CMCC  Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Italy); Alessandro Bonfiglio (CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean  Center on Climate Change, Italy.) 

Improving precipitation ground estimation from radar polarimetric volumes, NWP model and tipping buckets by using neural  networks 

Christoffer A. Elo (MET Norway); John Bjørnar Bremnes (MET Norway), Cristian Lussana (MET Norway), Thomas Nils Nipen (MET  Norway) 

QPE estimation using UNETs from synthetic radar data: Sensitivity to the precipitation observational network Aguirre Leandro Axel (FaCENA-UNNE. IMIT-CONICET); Fernández Chomik Paul (FaCENA-UNNE. IMIT-CONICET, Argentina); Pulido  Manuel (FaCENA-UNNE. IMIT-CONICET, Argentina); Ruiz Juan (DCAO-UBA. CIMA-CONICET, Argentina) NWP models and systems used in forecasting severe weather at SHMU 

André Simon (Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute); André Simon 1, Martin Belluš 1, Michal Neštiak 1, Ladislav Méri 1,2, Mária Derková  1 , Miroslav Šinger 1,2 (1 Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute, Slovakia, 2 Department of Astronomy, Physics of the Earth, and  Meteorology, Comenius University, Bratislava) 

Detection and nowcast of severe thunderstorms over Slovenia 

Matic Šavli (Slovenian Environment Agency (ARSO); Matevž Osolnik (Slovenian Environment Agency, Slovenia), Janko Merše  (Slovenian Environment Agency, Slovenia), Barbara Gabrovšek (Slovenian Environment Agency, Slovenia) An overview of current and future nowcasting capabilities at the UK Met Office 

Katie Norman (Met Office (UK)); Neil Armstrong (Met Office, UK), Matt Clark (Met Office, UK), Graeme Kelly (Met Office, UK), Billie  Mackenzie (Met Office, UK), Andrew McNaughton (Met Office, UK), Katie Norman (Met Office, UK), Ed Pavelin (Met Office, UK) The nowcasting experience at the HydroMeteoClimate Service of the Emilia-Romagna Region, in Italy Virginia Poli (Arpae Emilia-Romagna/Agenzia ItaliaMeteo); Renzo Bechini (Arpa Piemonte, Italy); Gabriele Franch (Fondazione Bruno  Kessler, Italy); Chiara Cardinali (Arpae Emilia-Romagna, Italy); Pier Paolo Alberoni (Arpae Emilia-Romagna, Italy) A deep learning prototype for operational post-processing wind gust forecasts 

Jieyu Chen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology); Kirien Whan (KNMI, Netherlands), Maurice Schmeits (KNMI, Netherlands), Sebastian  Lerch (KIT, Germany) 

Delivering nowcasting information to the wide public 

Ondřej Brambus (CHMI – Czech Hydrometeorological Institute);  

Creating a customer-focussed Surface Transport Forecast 

Stephen Moseley (Met Office, UK); Alice Lake (Met Office, UK); Josh Wiggs (Met Office, UK); Noemi Gonczol (Met Office, UK); Will  Luscombe (Met Office, UK) 

Enhancing Nowcasting Forecasting with Data Assimilation: A Supercell Thunderstorm Case Study using Radar Data Ioannis Samos (NKUA (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) | HNMS (Hellenic National Meteorological Service)); Helena  Flocas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens); Flora Gofa (Hellenic National Meteorological Service); Petroula Louka (Hellenic  Air Force Academy) 

Optimized short range weather prediction for sustainable mobility behavior 

Alexander Kann (GeoSphere Austria); Toni Jurlina (GeoSphere Austria) 

Graph Deep Learning for High-Resolution Nowcasting in Switzerland Using ECMWF’s Anemoi Framework Ophélia Miralles (MeteoSwiss); Daniele Nerini (MeteoSwiss, Switzerland) 

Machine-learning experiments for the assignment of warning categories to nowcasted storm cells Gergely Bölöni, Paul James and Susanne Theis (German Weather Service (DWD)) 

Incorporating climatological constraints into statistical models to improve the post-processing of extremes Bastien FRANCOIS (KNMI); Harun Kivril (KNMI, Netherlands), Maurice Schmeits (KNMI, Netherlands), Kiri Whan (KNMI, Netherlands),  Philippe Naveau (LSCE/IPSL, France) 

An Object-Based Approach to Convective Storm Nowcasting in the Western Sahel with Deep Learning Mendrika Rakotomanga (University of Leeds); Douglas J. Parker (University of Leeds, UK & NORCE-Climate, Norway), Nadhir B. Rachid  (University of Leeds, UK), Seonaid N. Anderson (UKCEH, UK), Steven M. Tobias (University of Leeds, UK) Temporally up-sampled ensemble weather forecast post-processing method based on neural networks and normalizing spline  flows 

Peter Mlakar (Slovenian Environment Agency); Janko Merše, Jana Faganeli Pucer 

Pros and cons of time-lagging in EPS - first results 

Andrzej Mazur (Institute of Meteorology and Water Management) 

Studies of Convection-Permitting Ensemble Forecasting for ICON-D2 with a 1km Nest over the Alps Zahra Parsakhoo, Chiara Marsigli, Christoph Gebhardt, Axel Seifert, Jan Keller (DWD) 

Robust satellite derived solar irradiance nowcasting with spatio-temporal neural networks 

Pascal Gfäller, Irene Schicker, Petrina Papazek (GeoSphere Austria) 

PV forecasting case studies 

Petrina Papazek, Pascal Gfäller, Irene Schicker (GeoSphere Austria) 

Numerical weather forecasts supporting the Renewable Energy Sector (RES) in Poland 

Joanna Wieczorek (IMWM - NRI), Bogdan Bochenek (IMWM - NRI), Jakub Jurasz (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology),  Adam Jaczewski (IMWM - NRI), Marta Gruszczynska (IMWM - NRI), Mariusz Figurski (IMWM - NRI), Andrzej Mazur (IMWM - NRI),  Tomasz Strzyzewski (IMWM - NRI)

Wednesday, 06 November 2024 

08:15 - 08:30 Arrival of participants

 

NOWCASTING AND POSTPROCESSING TECHNIQUES, SYSTEMS AND PRODUCTS 

Session chair: Stéphane Vannitsem (RMI)  svn@meteo.be 


08:30 – 09:00 

Keynote: On-demand Extremes Digital Twin - Extremes in a Changing Climate 

Roger Randriamampianina (MET Norway)

 

09:00 - 09:20

The past, current and future activities on statistical postprocessing in the context of the  European Meteorological Network (EUMETNET) 

Jonathan Demaeyer (Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium); Stéphane Vannitsem (Royal  Meteorological Institute of Belgium, Belgium) 


09:20 – 09:40

Probabilistic Benchmarks and Post-Processing for Data-Driven Weather Forecasting 

Tobias Biegert (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology); Nils Koster (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,  Germany); Sebastian Lerch (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)


09:40 – 10:00 

MET Nordic dataset: post-processing of model output near-surface fields 

Cristian Lussana (Norwegian Meteorological Institute); Thomas N. Nipen (Norwegian Meteorological  Institute, Norway), Ivar A. Seierstad (Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Norway), Line Båserud  (Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Norway), Amélie Neuville (Norwegian Meteorological Institute,  Norway) 


10:00 - 10:30 

Coffee break 


NOWCASTING AND POSTPROCESSING TECHNIQUES, SYSTEMS AND PRODUCTS 

Session chair: Alexander Kann (GeoSphere Austria) Alexander.Kann@geosphere.at 

 

10:30 – 11:00

Keynote: Advancing Weather Forecasting with Statistical Postprocessing: Opportunities and  Limitations 

Jonas Bhend (MeteoSwiss); Christoph Spirig (MeteoSwiss), Daniele Nerini (MeteoSwiss), Mathieu  Schaer (MeteoSwiss), and Lionel Moret (MeteoSwiss); Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology  MeteoSwiss, Zurich, Switzerland 

11:00 - 11:30

Keynote: Graph Neural Networks for Post-Processing Ensemble Weather Forecasts 

Sebastian Lerch (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology); Moritz Feik (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical  Studies and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Jan Stühmer (Heidelberg Institute for  Theoretical Studies and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

 

11:30 – 12:00 

Keynote: Evaluation of ML models: from forecast verification to model falsification 

Zied Ben Bouallegue (ECMWF) 


12:00 - 12:20

Deep Learning-Based Postprocessing Model for Thunderstorm Occurrence Using Vertical  Profiles from Convection-Resolving Ensemble Forecasts 

Kianusch Vahid Yousefnia (Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und  Raumfahrt (DLR)); Tobias Bölle (DLR, Germany), Christoph Metzl (DLR, Germany)


12:20 – 13:20 

Lunch break 


13:20 – 17:30 

Sightseeing. Please send your interest in sightseeing here

17:30 End of day 3


Thursday, 07 November 2024 

08:15 - 08:30 Arrival of participants 


NOWCASTING AND POSTPROCESSING TECHNIQUES, SYSTEMS AND PRODUCTS 

Session chair: Inger-Lise Frogner (MET Norway) ingerlf@met.no 


08:30 - 08:50 

Adverse weather condition forecasting using a ML approach for Post-processing of NWP model

 

Marco Di Giacomo (Geo-k); Lorenzo Giuliano Papale (Geo-k, Italy), Dario Cappelli (Geo-k, Italy), MarioPapa(Geo-k,Italy), Francesca Marcucci (CNMCA-Italian Air Force, Italy), Riccardo Scatamacchia(CNMCA-Italian Air Force, Italy) 


08:50 - 09:10 

Post-Processing in Croatia: Analog Methods, Machine Learning, and Novel Approaches 

Iris Odak (Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service) 

Endi Keresturi(DHMZ,Croatia),IvanVujec(DHMZ,Croatia),Jakov Lozuk (DHMZ, Croatia) 


09:10 – 09:30 

A minimal model of the thunderstorm lifecycle and its verification in remote-sensing  observations 

Tobias BÖLLE (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)); Christoph METZL (DLR, Germany);  Kianusch VAHID-YOUSEFNIA (DLR, Germany)


09:30 – 09:50

Seamless Probabilistic Nowcasting for High-Impact Weather Events 

Aitor Atencia (GeoSphere Austria); Markus Dabernig (GeoSphere Austria, Austria); Thomas Muschinski  (GeoSphere Austria, Austria)

 

09:50 – 10:20

Coffee break + watching posters


NOWCASTING AND POSTPROCESSING TECHNIQUES, SYSTEMS AND PRODUCTS 

Session chair: Alfons Callado (AEMET) acalladop@aemet.es 


10:20 – 10:40

Status of NWCSAF products for polar satellites in 2024 

Javier García-Pereda (AEMET); Nina Håkansson (SMHI, Sweden), Sara Hörnquist (SMHI, Sweden


10:40 - 11:00

NWC SAF products for MTG 

Pilar Rípodas (AEMET); Pilar Rípodas, Xavier Calbet, Llorenç Lliso, Miguel-Ángel Martínez, Javier  García-Pereda, José-Alberto Lahuerta, Níobe Pienado-Galán , Irene Bueno, Ainoa Pascual (AEMET,  Spain), Emmanuel Fontaine, Gaëlle Kerdraon, Tony Le Bastard , Jean-Marc Moisselin , Michaël  Claudon, Ronan Houël ( Météo France, France) , Alexander Jann, Andreas Wirth, Polly Schmederer  (Geosphere, Austria), Oscar Alonso, Luis Guijarro, Cristina Ariza (GMV, Spain), Adelina Mihai, Eugen  Mihulet (NMA, Romania)


11:00 – 11:20

A Physics-Informed ML Model for Thunderstorm Nowcasting Based on Satellite and Lightning  Data 

Christoph Metzl (DLR (German Aerospace Center)); Tobias Bölle (DLR, Germany), Kianusch Vahid Yousefnia (DLR, Germany)


11:20 – 11:40 

Testing novel approaches for INCA-CH analysis in complex terrain 

Matteo Buzzi (MeteoSwiss); Francesco Zanetta (MeteoSwiss), Icíar Lloréns Jover (MeteoSwiss),  Daniele Nerini (MeteoSwiss), Lionel Moret (MeteoSwiss) 


11:40 – 12:00 

Statistically downscaled 2m-Temperature corrections on a 30 meter resolution grid using neural  networks 

Cristina Primo Ramos (Deutscher Wetterdienst); Manuel Baumgartner (DWD, Germany); Guido  Schröder (DWD, Germany); Susanne Theis (DWD, Germany)


12:00 – 13:10 

Lunch break / watching posters

 

SEAMLESS PREDICTION 

Session chair: Matteo Buzzi (Meteoswiss)  matteo.buzzi@meteoswiss.ch 


13:10 – 13:30

Producing Consistent Members in Space and Time Based on SAMOS Forecasts and Ensemble  Copula Coupling for High Impact Weather 

Markus Dabernig (GeoSphere Austria); Aitor Atencia (GeoSphere Austria, Austria)

 

13:30 - 13:50

Evaluation of high-resolution ICON-LEM simulations over Southern Italy 

Edoardo Bucchignani (CIRA); Davide Cinquegrana (CIRA; Italy); Myriam Montesarchio (CIRA, Italy);  Alessandra Zollo (CIRA, Italy)

 

13:50 – 14:10

Toward seamless weather forecasts, the MeteoSwiss plan. 

Lionel Moret (MeteoSwiss); Christoph Spirig (MeteoSwiss, Switzerland), Colombe Siegenthaler  (MeteoSwiss, Switzerland), Jonas Bhend (MeteoSwiss, Switzerland), Verena Bessenbacher  (MeteoSwiss, Switzerland), Matteo Buzzi (MeteoSwiss, Switzerland), Ulrich Hamman (MeteoSwiss,  Switzerland), Przemyslaw Juda (MeteoSwiss, Switzerland), Daniele Nerini (MeteoSwiss, Switzerland),  Ophélia Miralles (ETH, Switzerland)

 

14:10 – 14:30

Generating physically consistent realizations from a multi-model probabilistic blended forecast

Gavin Evans (Met Office); Bruce Wright (Met Office, UK); Ben Hooper (Met Office, UK)

 

14:30 – 14:50

High-resolution adaptation of the AIFS model in western Europe using a stretched-grid approach

Maurice Schmeits (KNMI); Sophie Buurman (KNMI, University of Twente), Mariana Clare (ECMWF),  Kirien Whan (KNMI), Bastien François (KNMI), Jasper Wijnands (KNMI) 


14:50 – 15:20

Coffee break

 

SEAMLESS PREDICTION 

Session chair: Franziska Schmid (GeoSphere Austria) franziska.schmid@geosphere.at 


15:20 – 15:40 

Developing an AI-based Nowcasting Collective and Operationalising a Seamless Workflow

Irene Livia Kruse (Danish Meteorological Institute); Leif Denby (DMI, Denmark), Kasper Heintz (DMI,  Denmark)

 

15:40 – 16:00

The data assimilation and numerical weather prediction system at the Argentinian NMS: present  implementation and future perspectives 

Paula Soledad Maldonado (National Meteorological Service of Argentina); María Eugenia Dillon  (Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas,  Argentina); Cynthia Matsudo (Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, Argentina); Arata Amemiya (RIKEN  Cluster for Pioneering Research, Japan); Federico Cutraro (Servicio Meteorológico Nacional,  Argentina); Gimena Casaretto (Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, Argentina); Maximiliano Sacco  (Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, Argentina); Silvina Righetti (Servicio Meteorológico Nacional,  Argentina); Milagros Alvarez Imaz (Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, Argentina); Yanina García Skabar  (Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, Argentina); Juan Ruiz (Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la  Atmósfera, Departamento de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y los Océanos, Consejo Nacional de  Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina); Soledad Osores (Servicio Meteorológico Nacional,  Argentina); Takemasa Miyoshi (RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, Japan)


16:00 – 16:50

DISCUSSION for participants of ENWFC-2024

 

16:50 End of day 4




Friday, 08 November 2024 

08:15 - 08:30 Arrival of participants 



VERIFICATION AND SOCIETAL IMPACTS 

Session chair: Francesca Marcucci (Itaf MET) francesca.marcucci@aeronautica.difesa.it  

 

08:30 - 08:50

How to best evaluate and communicate the value of severe weather warnings? 

Kathrin Wapler (Deutscher Wetterdienst); Anders Sivle (The Norwegian Meteorological Institute)


08:50 – 09:10

Using nowcasts to improve disaster risk preparedness and response in three urban areas in  Mozambique, Zambia and South Africa - Weather Information and Climate Services, Early  Warning Systems for Southern Africa (WISER-EWSA) project

Miriam Murambadoro (South African Weather Service); Katherine Vincent, Gilda Monjane and Marita  Monjane (Kulima Integrated Development Solutions)

 

09:10 – 09:30

From Forecast to Response: Challenges and Lessons in Croatia's Severe Weather Warning  System 

Kristina Klemenčić Novinc (DHMZ)


09:30 - 10:30 

Coffee break / watching posters


APPLICATIONS 

Session chair: ?


10:30 - 10:50

Bivariate vine copula regression for wind vectors 

Ferdinand Buchner (Technical University Munich); Annette Möller (University Bielefeld, Germany);  Claudia Czado (Technical University Munich, Germany)

 

10:50 - 11:10 

Enhancing Satellite-based Nowcasting Capabilities and Early Warning Systems in Africa 

Hellen Msemo (World Meteorological Organization (WMO)); (Estelle De Conning, The World  Meteorological Organization, World Weather Research Programme, Geneva, Switzerland);'  (Katharine Vincent, Kulima Integrated Development Solutions, South Africa);'(Simon Ageet, The University of Leeds, Great Britain);'

 

11:10 – 11:30

Diffusion models for image-based nowcasting by predicting SEVIRI desert dust RGB  composites for West Africa 

Kilian Hermes (University of Leeds); John Marsham (University of Leeds, United Kingdom), Martina  Klose (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research - Department Troposphere Research (IMK-TRO), Germany), Franco Marenco (The Cyprus Institute,  Cyprus), Melissa Brooks (Met Office, United Kingdom), and Massimo Bollasina (University of  Edinburgh, United Kingdom

 

11:30 – 11:50

Generating weather summary symbols for the public from IMPROVER

Stephen Moseley (Met Office, UK); Ben Ayliffe (Met Office, UK); Sophie Yeomans-Smith (Met Office,  UK); Sarah Berks (Met Office, UK)

 

11:50 – 12:10

Advancing severe weather alerts in Belgium with radar-based convective gust warnings in the  INCA-BE system 

Maarten Reyniers (Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium) 


12:10 – 12:20 

Closing of the Conference 

Solfrid Agersten, Kathrine Lindsay, Franziska Schmid, Stéphane Vannitsem, Chiara Marsigli,  Francesca Marcucci, Alfons Callado, Tomislav Marekovic

 

12:20 – 13:20

Lunch break + Goodbye 


13:20 End of day 5