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ICON Meeting 2025/1

17 April 2025, ETH Zurich (L 17.1) and via Zoom

Participants (on-site)

Michael Jähn (MJ), Matthieu Leclair (ML), Tina Schnadt (TSP), Victoria Bauer (VB), Dominik Schumacher (DS), Ryan Vella (RV), Doris Folini (DF), Yi Yao (YY)

Participants (Zoom)

Matthias Kraushaar (MK), Sylvaine Ferrachat (SF), Arash Hamzehloo (AH), Marco Arpagaus (MA), Brigitta Goger (BG), Christian Zeman (CZ), Alina Yapparova (AY), Fulden Batibeniz (FB), Sven Kotlarski (SK), Timofei Sukhodolov (TS)

Minutes by Michael Jähn

Reports

C2SM (Michael Jähn, Matthieu Leclair)

MJ welcomes everyone and shares the latest news about ICON from C2SM .

Matthias Kraushaar

Victoria Bauer

  • Wants to use or conduct ERA5-driven ICON simulations on EURO-CORDEX domain
  • Quantifying influence of thermodynamic drivers on extremes

Ryan Vella

  • PostDoc in Atmospheric Physics Group
  • GLANCE project
  • Mixed-phase clouds, geo-engineering
  • ICON-HAM

Doris Folini

  • Research on heat waves
  • ICON in idealized setups
  • Mixed-layer ocean on GPUs (not yet implemented in ICON, happy to discuss)

Yi Yao

  • Biogeochemical and biophysical impact
  • JSBACH in ICON
  • Clarissa using JSBACH in ICON-EXCLAIM

Sylvaine Ferrachat

  • Lagrangian trajectories implemented in ICON last summer
  • Recently updated for 2024.10
  • Available as external, planned as ComIn plugin
  • Tropical cyclone tracking, also planned as ComIn plugin
  • ICON-HAM: LAM version, Mikael Stellio -> CI for ICON-HAM

Arash Hamzehloo

  • Porting parts of ART to GPU
  • Including chemistry and aerosols

Marco Arpagaus

  • New version for operational use
  • ICON reanalysis: REA-L-CH1
  • 3-month data set (2023-01-01 to 2023-03-31) available

Brigitta Goger

  • LES for Switzerland (100 m)
  • Performing scaling runs at the moment

Christian Zeman

  • Wants to run ICON-CLM EURO-CORDEX on km scale
  • Interested in MeteoSwiss simulations

Alina Yapparova

  • Working on data assimilation, forward operator

Fulden Batibeniz

  • Seasonal drought forecast with ICON-CLM on EURO-CORDEX domain

Sven Kotlarski

  • CORDEX 12km ensemble
  • Half-century birthday! 🎉

Timofei Sukhodolov

  • Senior scientist in climate modeling group in Davos