International Earth Surface Working Group (IESWG) Seminar Series

The International Earth Surface Working Group (IESWG) holds a three part seminar series with invited speakers to address specific focus areas, followed by a plenary session to coordinate and facilitate discussions and plans. The topic areas and speakers and dates for these meeting are:

1) Snow ice and cryosphere-atmosphere interaction (23Sep2021 @ 13:00-14:30 hrs. BST)

• Multi-layer snow modelling and cryosphere-atmosphere interactions in the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System – Gabriele Arduini (ECMWF)
• Sea Ice Assimilation in Navy Modeling Systems – Richard Allard (NRL-U.S.)

2) Vegetation and land-atmosphere fluxes (21Oct2021)

• Melissa Ruiz Vásquez (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)
• Camille Birman (Météo-France)

3) Soil moisture, river-discharge and water cycle (15Nov2021)

• Initialization of Soil Moisture in Numerical Weather Prediction – John P. George (NCMRWF-India)
• TBD

For more information visit https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/~pad/IESWG-2021+Seminar+series