COSMO ROmania Liliana VELEA National Meteorological Administration Bucharest

COSMO - ROmania Liliana VELEA National Meteorological Administration, Bucharest, Romania

Outline § COSMO-RO Group § Current state of work § Romania involvement within COSMO § Future plans NMA Romania

n n Starting date: October 2004 First results: December 2004 COSMO-RO Group Dr. I. V. PESCARU – head of Research Division Liliana VELEA – Ph. D student (Physics) Rodica DUMITRACHE – Ph. D student (Physics) C. Barbu – Ph. D student (Mathematics) NMA Romania

Current state of work at NMA § LM used in pre - operational regime §Comparative evaluation of HRM and LM §Study cases §Experiments on precipitation scheme NMA Romania

Romania’s involvement within COSMO QUANTIFY (EU FP 6 Integrated Project: Quantifying the Climate Impact of Global and European Transport Systems) - 35 participants and 4 associated members from 16 European countries and the U. S. A - to quantify the climate impact of global and European transport systems for the present situation and for several scenarios of future development - focused field measurements, exploitation of existing data, a range of numerical models, and new policy-relevant metrics of climate change New COST project: AQFIS (Towards a Network of European Information Systems on Chemical Weather Assessment and Forecasting ) - to set up a forum for benchmarking, harmonising and developing approaches and practices for air quality forecasting network and (near) realtime information systems in Europe NMA Romania

Romania’s involvement within COSMO §Infrastructure: - Linux Cluster 28 processors, Intel Xeon 2. 66 GHz - 6 PCs, Pentium 4, 3. 2 MHz - 1 Linux Server, 2 processors + New computational mainframe (INTEROPERATE) §COSMO-RO group enlargement NMA Romania

Future plans Local § LM in operational regime § Use of new visualization system § Implementation of data assimilation procedure Within COSMO §Participation in WG 3 activity NMA Romania

INVITATION Next COSMO General Meeting (2006) to be held in ROMANIA NMA Romania