Proceedings - C-SRNWP Project

1.1 Foreword
In 2006, MeteoSwiss had the pleasure to organise and host the 28th meeting of the European
Working Group on Limited Area Modelling (EWGLAM) and the 13 th meeting of the
EUMETNET Programme Short-Range Numerical Weather Prediction (SRNWP). They took
place from the 9 th to the 12 th of October, 2006, in Zurich. I want to warmly thank all the
colleagues of MeteoSwiss involved in the organisation and all the participants; they have so
well contributed to the success of the meetings.
The meetings were for the first time held in the new format, defined in the 2005 meetings in
Ljubljana, with the target to better allow the decision making for enhanced collaboration. A
more formalised and extended presentation of the recent developments of the consortia has
been introduced in the EWGLAM part enabling a discussion between leaders of the four
areas: data assimilation, numerics & coupling numerics/physics, physics, predictability &
EPS. In the SRNWP part, the reports of the lead centres have been replaced by a discussion of
the new EUMETNET programme to replace SRNWP after 2007. The new format has very
well passed its first trial and all agreed to keep it for the next meetings planed in Dubrovnik in
October 2007.
In this Newsletter, you will find after the program and the list of participants, the reports of
ECMWF and of the consortia, the national status reports and the scientific contributions
grouped by area and at the end the minutes of the EWGLAM final discussion as well as the
report of the SRNWP session.
Zurich, February 2007
Philippe Steiner
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