Special Projects are 'experiments or investigations of a scientific or technical nature, undertaken by one or more Member States, likely to be of interest to the general scientific community'.

Finished Special Projects

Principal Investigator	Affiliation	Title	Final report
Dr A Beck, Dr B Ahrens	Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna AUSTRIA	Alpine regional downscaling of reanalysis data using the LAM ALADIN	finishing 2007
Prof Dr M Ehrendorfer	Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics, Universität Innsbruck AUSTRIA	Mesoscale predictability and ensemble prediction	Final Report
Prof Dr M. Ehrendorfer	Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik Universität Innsbruck AUSTRIA	Singular vector-based multivariate normal sampling in Ensemble Prediction.	Final Report
Dr C Georges	Institute of Geography, University of Innsbruck AUSTRIA	Analysis of precipitationin the Northern Peruvian Andes	finishing 2004
Dr L. Haimberger	Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik Universität Wien AUSTRIA	Atmospheric general circulation statistics from ERA-40 data	finishing 2003
Dr L Haimberger	Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik Universität Wien AUSTRIA	Checking the temporal homogeneity of the ERA-40 observational input and analyses using analyses feedback data	Final Report
Prof J. P. van Ypersele Prof Th. Fichefet	Institut de l'Astronomie et de Geophysique G. Lemaitre Université catholique de Louvain BELGIUM	Modelling the climate and its evolution at the global and regional scales	Final Report
Dr K. Sattler	Danish Meteorological Institute DENMARK	Heavy rain in Europe	Final Report
Dr K Sattler	Danish Meteorological Institute DENMARK	Investigations on LAM ensembles for wind power prediction	finishing in 2006
Dr S. Yang Dr B. Machenhauer	Danish Meteorological Institute DENMARK	Detection of changing radiative forcing over the recent decades	finishing in 2003
Dr C. Fortelius	Finnish Meteorological Institute FINLAND	BEEOS in BRIDGE (Better Exploitation of existing observations in BRIDGE)	not available
Prof H Järvinen	Finnish Meteorological Institute FINLAND	Stochastic sub-grid scale parametrizations for coupled earth system models	finishing 2007
Prof G Cautenet	LAMP FRANCE	Chemistry, cloud and radiation interactions in a meteorological model
Dr T. Claquin	Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement FRANCE	Are the ECMWF weather predictions improved by accounting for mineral dust?	not available
Dr T de Prada	Mercator Ocean FRANCE	MERCATOR	Finished 2005
Dr S Herbette	LODYC FRANCE	NAT-FISH: Modelling the seasonal and inter-annual variability of the northwest African upwelling system	finishing in 2006
Dr T Morel	CERFACS FRANCE	PALM: Universal software for data assimilation	finishing 2007
Dr A Piacentini	CERFACS FRANCE	Universal software for data assimilation: variational method for global oceans	Finished 2002
Prof Dr G Gravenhorst	Institute of Bioclimatology, University of Göttingen GERMANY	Downscaling of ECMWF seasonal forecast in the tropical region Central Sulawesi, Indonesia using the climate limited area model, CLM of the German Weather Service	finishing 2007
Dr W. Knorr	Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie GERMANY	Biochemical feedbacks in the climate system	Final Report
Dr B Rockel	GKSS orschungszentrum Institut für Atmosphärenphysik Geesthacht, Germany	Energy and water cycle components in regional forecasts
Dr N Spichtinger	University of Munich GERMANY	Validation of trajectory calculations	finishing in 2006
Dr J S von Storch	MPI Hamburg GERMANY	Numerical experimentation with a high-resolution ocean model	finishing 2007
J U Joergensen and C Moehrlen	UCC, IRELAND	HONEYMOON - A high resolution numerical wind energy model for on- and offshore forecasting using ensemble predictions	Final Report
C Moehrlen, J U Joergensen and M Pahlow	Univ College Cork, Met Eireann/Ruhr Univ Bochum IRELAND	Using ensembles to predict and hydro to balance wind power forecast errors	finishing 2007
Dr L. Cavaleri	ISDGM-CNR ITALY	Testing and applications of a third generation wave model in the Mediterranean Sea	not available
Dr P Chessa	SAR, SARDINIA	Local Multi-model Prediction System (LaMPS)	finishing 2007
Dr F Molteni	International Centre for Theoretical Physics Trieste ITALY	Nonlinear aspects of the systematic error of the ECMWF coupled model	report 2003
Dr. Jan Barkmeijer	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Potential for Regime Transitions in North Atlantic Climate	Not available
Dr G. Burgers	KNMI NETHERLANDS	OGCM mixed-layer modules and initialization	not available
Dr S. S. Drijfhout	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Agulhas	report 2003
Dr S S Drijfhout	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Water mass pathways in a high-resolution synoptic model	finishing 2007
Mr H Eskes	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Chemical data-assimilation of satellite observations with TM5	Project started in 2007 ?
Dr G. J. de Groot	Netherlands Energy Research Foundation (ECN) NETHERLANDS	RECAB	not available
Dr H. Kelder	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Data assimilation of chemical species as observed by GOME and SCIAMACHY	not available
Dr O Leeuwenburgh	Univ Utrecht NETHERLANDS	Bias and balance in the Ensemble Kalman Filter	finishing 2007
G J van Oldenborgh, G Burgers	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Advanced ocean data assimilation	project finishes in 2005
Dr A P Siebesma	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of boundary layer clouds	not available
Dr P. C. Siegmund	KNMI NETHERLANDS	Transport relevant for atmospheric chemistry	not available
Prof S. Grønås Dr N. G. Kvamstø	Geophysical Institute University of Bergen NORWAY	Parametrization of clouds in general circulation models	not available
Dr E. Schuepbach	Department of Physical Geography/CABO University of Berne SWITZERLAND	Classification of atmospheric circulation during extreme events in the Alps	not available
Prof. L. Bengtsson	ESSC University of Reading UK	Sensitivity of ERA40 to different observing systems and the determination of the global water cycle	Final Report
Prof B. J. Hoskins	Department of Meteorology University of Reading U.K.	Moist singular vectors	report 2003
Dr H. Mussa	Centre for Atmospheric Sci, Uni Cambridge U.K.	Chemical data assimilation	not available
Dr Per Undén	SMHI SWEDEN	The HIRLAM 5 project	Report 2002
Prof B J Hoskins	Department of Meteorology University of Reading UK	Routine back trajectories
Prof B J Hoskins	Department of Meteorology University of Reading UK	Stochastic physics	Final Report
Prof A O'Neill	DARC, Univ Reading, UK	Use of data assimilation to analyse the impact of gravity-wave drag parametrization on the dynamics and circulation of the IFS model	project cancelled

05.06.2008

Special Projects