The Toulouse meeting purpose

1. The Toulouse meeting purpose Bart vd Hurk Data coordination meeting

2. Main goals • Have a clear idea on ELDAS time schedule • Harmonize definition of • archiving features • validation & demonstration data needs • Details on areal coverage, data quality, missing data flags etc Data coordination meeting

3. ELDAS products • Dataset 2000 • 1 oct 1999 – 31 dec 2000 • Forcings • Soil moisture, hydr. Fluxes • Used in validation, NWP demo, UK flooding exp • Dataset 2003 • Shorter period (2 – 3 months) • Anomalously dry! • MSG data • Not well specified how to be evaluated Data coordination meeting

4. Table of forcings • Entry Value • Quantity precipitation • Date of evaluation of test data (Oct 2wks) 31 october • Test data evaluators • Date of storage final data in MARS end 2003 • 3hrly data early 2004 • GRIB codes defined? yes • Obs error defined? yes • Missing data filled with background? yes • Will 2003 data set be prepared? yes • Validation planned? no Data coordination meeting

5. Table of forcings • Entry Value • Quantity surface radiation • Date of evaluation of test data • Test data evaluators • Date of storage final data in MARS • GRIB codes defined? yes • Obs error defined? no • Missing data filled with background? yes • Will 2003 data set be prepared? Yes • Validation planned? Data coordination meeting

6. Table of forcings • Entry Value • Quantity heating rates • Date of evaluation of test data • Test data evaluators • Date of storage final data in MARS 1 nov 2003 • GRIB codes defined? • Obs error defined? Various indicators • Missing data filled with background? no • Will 2003 data set be prepared? yes Data coordination meeting

7. Table of forcings • Entry Value • Quantity atm fields • Date of evaluation of test data • Test data evaluators • Date of storage final data in MARS 15 nov 2003 • GRIB codes defined? yes • Obs error defined? no • Missing data filled with background? nvt • Will 2003 data set be prepared? ? Data coordination meeting

8. Table of forcings • Entry Value • Quantity microwave data • Status of progress • Date of evaluation of test data • Test data evaluators • Date of storage final data in MARS • Missing data filled with background? • Which DA systems will use MW data? Data coordination meeting

9. Table of forcings • Entry Value • Quantity surface climate fields • Date of storage final data in MARS • GRIB codes defined? • Obs error defined? • Missing data filled with background? • What groups will use central dbase? • Will 2003 data set be prepared? Data coordination meeting

10. Table of ELDAS results • Entry Value • Quantity soil moisture • GRIB codes defined? • Obs error defined? • Missing data filled with background? • Will 2003 data set be prepared? • INCREMENTS STORED? • Date of final ECMWF-product start: end 2003 ? • Forcings used RH,T,LW,SW,prec • Date of final DWD-product • Forcings used RH,T,prec,(SW?) • Date of final CNRM-product • Forcings used RH,T,prec(post.cor),SW guides background error setting Data coordination meeting

11. Table of ELDAS results • Entry Value • Quantity hydr. fluxes • GRIB codes defined? • Obs error defined? • Missing data filled with background? • Will 2003 data set be prepared? • Date of final ECMWF-product • Storage platform • Who will use data? • Date of final DWD-product • Storage platform • Who will use data? • Date of final CNRM-product • Storage platform • Who will use data? Data coordination meeting

12. Points of attention • INM & CNRM: Send presentations tomorrow to me Data coordination meeting