Newsletter n°7 published
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7th ACCORD Newsletter, published on 29 July 2025 |
| We welcome herewith the 7th ACCORD Newsletter. Since the publication of the 6th ACCORD Newsletter in December 2024, a number of scientific activities have taken place in the consortium, including the start of the realization of the DAP2025 actions, as well as the All Staff Workshop in Zalakaros. As usual, all the material presented or discussed during the ASW2025 is available on the ACCORD website. A dedicated task force has elaborated a roadmap for the development of the ACCORD scripting system, paving the way for this novel R&D activity at consortium-level. The first tasks of the roadmap are expected to be completed already this autumn, to provide momentum for 2026. The ACCORD teams will be further informed and invited to join this effort. In parallel, the preparation of the phase 2 of the consortium has continued with several milestones of the transition process completed this spring (nomination of the PM, of two CSC Leaders, of the Integration Leader and of the Consortium Scientific Secretary). The ACCORD Assembly on 7 July formally approved the full text of the Memorandum of Understanding for phase 2, and decided to launch the signature process by all Members. Furthermore, the A/A agreed to launch the Call for Applications for the Area Leaders as well as for the Documentation Officer and the Coordinator for Network Activities in phase 2. The corresponding Calls have been sent to the main ACCORD mailing lists on 9 July with a DL for applications set to 7 October. In the autumn, some other important milestones for phase 2 will be addressed: the interviews of the candidates of the AL/DO/CNA positions, and the budget scenarios. This NL7 includes reporting of activity directly facilitated by the ACCORD budget (for instance the report by Nour El Islam Kerroumi or the EPS Working Weeks in 2024). The content of the NL7 has been organized with the first contributions being associated with surface and near-surface conditions (Ecoclimap-SG, town fractions along with SURFEX, post-processing of low level winds with an ML approach). An overview reporting of the 2024 EPS Working Weeks is provided by our Area Leader for EPS (Henrik from DMI). Finally, a large fraction of this newsletter is devoted to contributions from data assimilation: B-matrix computation, covariance modelling, coupled DA and a very detailed report on the several possible approaches for tuning DA parameters. In this last contribution, the description of each tuning methodology is complemented by an explanation of the tool and a reference to the new “ACCORD DA toolkit”. The newsletter is concluded with some updated news of our former Scientific Secretary and links to the previous newsletters. All editorial information important to read before you prepare your own NL contribution are available on the ACCORD website. |
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