The year was strongly influenced by the COVID pandemy. Many meetings took place online.

• Dec 16: DWD-GFZ Exchange Meeting
• Dec 15: KIT-DWD KITcube Assimilation Task Force
• Dec 8: Talk for Forecasters on NWP at DWD
• Dec 2: Joint Hohenheim-DWD Data Assimilation of Ground-based Remote Sensing
• Dec 1: Coordination Group Numerical Weather Prediction (KG NWV)

• Nov 30-Dec 3: SINFONY Annual Workshop
• Nov 24-26: 3-day Annual Workshop of IAFE Projects
• Nov 17-18: KIAPS NWP Workshop and Science Advisory Committee (SAC) - online -
• Nov 12: DWD-ECMWF bilateral meeting
• Nov 11: ICON News Workshop at DWD
• Nov 9: Customer Workshop Water Management, Talk on NWP
• Nov 2-3: Scientific Advisory Board DWD, Talk on Data Assimilation and NWP

• Oct 26: ICON Board and Coordination Group meeting
• Oct 21-22: KIT-DWD Cooperation Workshop and Steering Group
• Oct 2021: National Earth System Modeling (ESM) Initiative Meeting II (2021), Extended Steering Group
• Oct 19-20: mFund Conference (ICamCloudOps Project contribution)
• Oct 4-6: ICON-Consolidated Workshop in Karlsruhe jointly with DWD, MPI, DKRZ, KIT, C2SM

• Sept 13-18, 2021, Bonn + online: Joint WCRP-WWRP Symposium on Data Assimilation and Reanalysis Webpage, talk on Operational Ensemble Data Assimilation at DWD
• Sept 13-18, 2021, ECMWF Annual Seminar “Observations” Webpage
• Sept 13-17, 2021, online, 23rd COSMO General Meeting, organized by Bucharest, Romania, with many working group meetings taking place the week before!

• Aug 23-27: Helsinki Conference on “Inverse problems and non-linearity”, talk on NWP and Particle Filters.

• July 2, 2021: International Symposium for Data Assimilation ISDA online Error Covariance Estimation in Observations, State, and Model, Programme, Scientific Advisory Committee

• June 24-30, 2021: International TOVS Study Conferences ITSC-XXIII: Virtual Meeting Website
• June 2021: National Earth System Modeling (ESM) Initiative Meeting I (2021), Extended Steering Group, Co-Chair of Governance Group
• June 4, 2021: International Symposium for Data Assimilation ISDA online Coupled Data Assimilation, Programme, Scientific Advisory Committee

• May 7, 2021: International Symposium for Data Assimilation ISDA online Earth Systems Components and Further Applications of DA, Programme, Scientific Advisory Committee

• April 16, 2021: International Symposium for Data Assimilation ISDA online Convective-Scale Data Assimilation, Programme, Scientific Advisory Committee
• April 14-16, 2021: ECMWF workshop: Machine learning for numerical weather predictions and climate services Webpage online, talk on Intelligent Cloud Observation Operators
• April 13, 2021: Worldbank funded ICON-in-the-Cloud Kick-off Meeting
• April 8, 2021, 6pm: Wetterwerkstatt Offenbach, talk “How does Weather Prediction work today?” online Web
• April 7-9, 2021: Hans-Ertel Centre Yearly Meeting online, Area Expert for Data Assimilation

• March 24, 2021: Webinar Intelligent camera cloud operators, Introductory Talk online Webpage
• March 18+19, 2021: COSMO Consortium Steering Committee (STC) Meetings
• March 18, 2021: ICON Model Directors Meeting (DWD-MPI-DKRZ-KIT), ICON Coordination Group, ICON-consolidated Line, ICON-Seamless Development Coordination Group
• March 16, 2021: ICCARUS ICON-Seamless Prediction from Weather to Climate, Talk on DA Concepts online, Coordination Group
• March 12, 2021: International Symposium for Data Assimilation ISDA online Mathematics of Data Assimilation Programme, Scientific Advisory Committee
• March 8, 2021: ICCARUS ICON-COSMO-CLM-ART User Seminar, Solicited Survey Talk on Data Assimilation Innovation, Webpage online
• March 5, 2021: National Earth System Model (ESM) Steering Group Meeting

• Feb 5, 2021: International Symposium for Data Assimilation ISDA online Satellite Data Assimilation Programme, Scientific Advisory Committee
• Feb 3, 2021: NWP-SAF Steering Group Meeting, full day online

• Jan 14, 2021: Campus for Christ Karlsruhe, Open Seminar Talk on Science, History and Faith online
• Jan 8, 2021: International Symposium on Data Assimilation ISDA online, Invited talk on feature data assimilation Webpage.

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