Review Themes
1- Advanced and High-Resolution Data Assimilation techniques(Andrew Lorenc, MetOffice)
2- Linearization for cloud analysis(Thomas Nehrkorn, AER)
3- Current cloud analysis systems(Ming Hu, NOAA/GSD)
4- Microphysics and cloud analysis(Hugh Morrison, NCAR)
5- Cloud prediction skills and verification(Chris Davis & Morris Weisman, NCAR)
6- Current and future observing systems and choice of cloud observable(Sid Boukabara, NOAA/NESDIS)
7- Practical processing of cloud observations(Alan Geer, ECMWF)
8- Cloud control variable(Thibaut Montmerle, Meteo-France)
9- Model Error at convective scales(Milija and/or Dusanka Zupanski, CSU?)
Discussion topics
- How to address non-linearities, non-gaussianities?
- Choice of observable and control variable?
- How to account for model error?
- Operational needs in the next decade?
- Climate/Chemistry applications?