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Vanessa Escobar (NASA/GSFC)

The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Application Program Pre Launch Efforts

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Silvia Terzago (SAC-Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, CNR, Torino, Italy)

Precipitation and snowpack in Hindu-Kush Karakoram Himalaya: Current features and future projections

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Prof Tilmann Gneiting (Univ of Heidelberg)

Calibration of medium-range weather forecasts

Oyvind Breivik (Marine Aspects Section, ECMWF)

Estimating Return Values From EPS Forecasts

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W Pozzi (Group on Earth Observations Hydrometerological Extremes PoC)

The Global Footprint of Drought and the Monitoring of it

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Anthony Illingworth (Dept of Meteorology, Univ of Reading)

WIVERN : A WInd VElocity Radar Nephoscope, a satellite for the global measurement of winds and precipitation or a figment of the imagination?

A proposed satellite to provide global profiles of winds, clouds  and precipitation with 50km horizontal and  1km vertical resolution and daily visits poleward of 50 degrees. Poster

Jorgen Frederiksen (CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Australia)

Tropical-extratropical interactions of intraseasonal oscillations and equatorial waves

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Linus Magnusson and Erland Källén, ECMWF

Factors influencing skill improvements in the ECMWF forecasting system

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Takuya Komori (ECMWF)

Approach for Diagnostics and Evaluation of Cycling Model Error in Weak-Constraint 4D-Var

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Prashant Sardeshmukh (Univ of Colorado and NOAA, Boulder, CO)

Is global warming significantly affecting atmospheric circulation extremes?

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Prof Brian Hoskins (Imperial College)

The role of simpler models in seasonal forecasting and GCM studies

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Florian Harnisch (Hans-Ertel Centre for Weather Research, University Munich)

Optimising the number of GNSS Radio Occultation measurements for Numerical Weather Prediction

George Mozdzynski (ECMWF)

Getting IFS to run on a future Exascale supercomputer

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