Events in Research

FOKO 2009-2

MeteoSchweiz invites you to attend its research colloquium FOKO 2009-2.

Subject: The CN Met Project - an innovative integration of observations and modeling 

The Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI) is responsible for the risk management in the Swiss nuclear power plants. To fulfill this task it runs a dispersion model which up to present was initiated with atmospheric parameters measured on meteorological towers standing near the power plants. As the instruments on these towers had to be renewed, MeteoSwiss took the chance to propose an innovative approach combining remote sensing observations and high resolution numerical weather forecast, which implies that the input data to ENSI’s dispersion model do not come anymore from the observation but from the numerical model. At the end of 2005 ENSI decided to support the challenge and MeteoSwiss started realizing the new nowcasting system in the Framework of the Project CN-Met (Centrales Nucléaires et Météorologie). This new tool is now ready and will be in full operation starting October 1st, 2009.
During this research colloquium MeteoSwiss will have the pleasure to present the new system, the project and a few related topics. International key note contributions will emphasize the importance of the integration of observations and numerical modeling in high resolution weather forecast.

ETH Lausanne - Laboratoire Pollution de l'Air et du Sol

IACETH - Institut für Atmosphäre und Klima
Proclim

Universities

Institut für physische Geographie der Universität Zürich
Basel - Meteorologie, Klimatologie und Remote Sensing

Bern - Geographie
Genf - Geographie
Lausanne - Geographie
Zürcher Geographisches Kolloquium