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Current Group Structures and Members
Deutscher Wetterdienst is a federal institution with a strong business area of research. The department for Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) has about 90 scientists in house in four divisions (49 permanent). There are 7 leading scientists directly reporting to the NWP department head, including the four division heads. All other scientists report to the four division heads in my department:
FE11 Division Head on Data Assimilation and Predictability
FE12 Division Head on Observations Modeling and Verification
FE13 Division Head on Numerical Modeling
FE14 Division Head on Physical Parametrization and Dispersion Modeling
Hans-Ertel Center (HErZ) DWD-Theme-Co-Leader Reanalysis
Hans-Ertel Center (HErZ) DWD-Theme-Co-Leader Data assimilation
Hans-Ertel Center (HErZ) DWD-Theme-Co-Leader Modelling & Parametrization
Also, there are several PhD students in my group and currently two master students.
We have regular meetings within NWP:
Division Heads (once to twice per month)
Division Member Meeting (once to twice per month or weekly)
Routine Meeting Coordination (every Tuesday 9-10am)
Group meetings, e.g. of the DA-Algorithm Group, RADAR Group, Satellite Group, Ensemble Group, …
and for coordinating development and operations of NWP within DWD:
Our development is taking place in a network of partners including
the Max-Planck-Institute (MPI-M),
the German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ),
Deutscher Wetterdienst
the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT),
the COSMO Consortium for Small Scale Modelling with the weather services of Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Romania, Greece, Russia, Poland, Israel.
the climate center C2SM in Switzerland
the Hans-Ertel-Centre (HErZ) in Munich, Bonn/Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Berlin
German Research Center for Geosciences (GfZ) Potsdam
Many further Universities …
We have an intensive interaction with these institutions and many scientists in different steering groups, working groups and committees. There are international and national coordination groups:
COSMO Steering Committee (COSMO-STC) (2-3 times a year)
ICON-D5 Directors Group (with C5 participating) (every 3 months)
ICON-C5 Coordination Group (every two weeks)
ICON-Seamless Coordination Group (4-6 weeks)
ICON-Seamless Working Group Meetings
Atmosphere,
Atmosphere-Land,
Atmosphere-Ocean,
Data Assimilation
ICON-Consolidated Meetings
We run yearly workshops and training:
ICCARUS (ICON/COSMO/CLM/ART User Seminar) in March
COSMO General Meeting (COSMO-GM) in September
ICON Training Course in the fourth quarter of the year
as well as further workshops and symposia in cooperationwith partners, e.g. the