Transcript Activities_OMSZ_2015_ICSEED

Achievements and present actions
OMSZ – Hungarian Meteorological Service
Dr. Kornélia RADICS
President
14th ICSEED Meeting (5– 6 November 2015, Bukarest, Romania)
Alapítva: 1870
Governance
under the Ministry of Agriculture since June 2014
total budget 7 380 000 EUR
number of staff 195, +1 increase this year, state
budget support 34% in 2015
current pursuits: acceptance of the act on
meteorology
www.met.hu
Weather forecasts and warnings
Public information through internet and media
Daily precipitation forecasts to hydrological
authorities for river catchments of Danube-Tisza
Cooperation with the Directorate for Disaster
Management
16th August 2015 – biggest flash flood ever in
Budapest
www.met.hu
Observations
Implementation of „Enlargement of the weather network
in Hungary and quality improvement of its rainfall
measurement”, new radar station at Szentes-Lapistó and 18
disdrometers
Meteorological stations at the highest points near
Budapest, equipped with an ultrasonic anemometer, a rain
gauge, temperature, humidity and pressure sensors
Dataloggers developed by OMSZ; compatible with the
currently standardized sensors, several options for data
transmission
www.met.hu
Observations
Upgrade of Poganyvar radar
finalized 30 October, 2015
Supported by the Ministry of
Agriculture
www.met.hu
Climate activities
EKOP tender „Complex Agricultural Risk Assessment System”
two new services: OMSZ provides information damaging extreme
meteorological events, central damage assessing system, + 15 new
stations, improved MISH climate-data interpolating system,
providing precipitation data using radar measurements.
Aladin-Climate and REMO study climate change characteristics in
EURO-CORDEX cooperation, using the newest emission scenarios
from last IPCC report.
Joint climate modelling activities with Rossby Centre of SMHI
and with Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium.
HARMONIE-Climate 15 km
HARMONIE-Climate 6 km
ALADIN-Climate 10 km
Difference between simulation results and observations for winter precipitation (%), 1998–2007
(HARMONIE-Climate and ALADIN-Climate are used by SMHI and OMSZ, respectively)
www.met.hu
Support to climate adaptation
Meteorological data for National Adaptation GeoInformation System developed by Geological and
Geophysical Institute of Hungary to serve common basis for
future climate impact assessments
OMSZ and Eötvös Loránd University, Department of
Meteorology have a project „New climate scenarios based
on the change in radiative forcing for the Carpathian
basin” funded by the Norway Grants.
KRITéR - „Study of the vulnerability to climate change,
with special attention to turism and critical
infrastructure”
www.met.hu
Air quality activities
Air Quality Reference Centre
– moved to the Marczell György Main Observatory
– in May 2014 the re-accreditation process finished
– finalized two projects: Swiss Contribution Programme
and Environment and Energy Operative Programme
Air Quality Modeling
Contribution of the transboundary sources to the Hungarian PM
pollution level (supported by Ministry of Agriculture)
AQRC
Calibration Laboratory
Greenhouse Gas Inventory
– CO2, CH4, N2O, F-gas emissions and removals since 2007
– SO2, NOx, VOC, NH3, CO, PM, Heavy Metals, POPs since
49
2012
48
0 to 0.5
0.5 to 0.6
0.6 to 0.7
0.7 to 0.8
0.8 to 0.9
0.9 to 1
47
46
16
70-80% of PM originated from abroad
17
18
19
20
21
60% of PM exported
22
23
www.met.hu
x100%
ALADIN/LACE – Short range
numerical weather prediction
ALADIN model (8km, 49 levels):
•
Upper air and surface data assimilation
(3DVAR and Optimum Interpolation)
•
Coupled to ECMWF
•
New physics to be implemented soon
(ALARO – developed in the frame of the
LACE consortium)
AROME model (2.5 km, 60 levels):

Coupled to ALADIN (ICs and LBCs)

Improvements of physics

Data assimilation system under
preparation (to be coupled to ECMWF,
when ready)
www.met.hu
International relations
K
Hungarian government joined EUMETSAT EPS-SG programme (2014)
Contribution to EUMeTrain project of EUMETSAT  webbased learning
materials for meteorologist
Participation in Hydrology Satellite Application Facility project since
2005  validation satellite based precipitation products
Testing satellite-derived global Instability Indices and Water
Vapor content.
As a member of the WMO participation at Commission for Climatology,
Comission for Agricultural Meteorology, and Commission for Instruments
and Methods of Observation and the 17th World Meteorological Congress.
Associated Member of ECMWF since 1994  active participation at
the ECMWF scientific meetings:
• Computing Representatives Meeting
• ECMWF Forecast Products Users' Meeting
• Technical Advisory Committee Meeting
www.met.hu
Projects and research activities
Coordinating member of EUMETNET C-SRNWP programme
LACE - Hungarian leader in data assimilation
ORIENTGATE – A structured network for integration of climate
knowledge into policy and territorial planning – concluded in
December
Urban Heat Island Project to mitigate harmful effects of UHI, to
present examples of climate-conscious public area development.
Final Conference with urban architects and officials working for the
local governments.
www.met.hu
Our visitors
Visit of Eric Petermann,
EUMETNET Executive Director,
3 September 2015
Visit of Prof Anton Eliassen,
Director of Norwegian
Meteorological Institute,
15 September 2015
Deon Terblanche, Director: Atmospheric Research and Environment
Branch, Research Department, World Meteorological Organization
ECMWF Memebr State visit: Gianpaolo Balsamo (Research Department)
Ivan Tsonevsky (Operations Department)
www.met.hu
Outreach to wider public
improving web-portal and other Internet tools
around 50.000 people following us on Facebook
web-based system (called MET-ÉSZ) developed for
amateur observers
METEORA – application for smartphones
The input site of the MET-ÉSZ system
METEORA application on
on a smartphone display
a smartphone display
www.met.hu
Thank you for your attention!
Alapítva: 1870