Status of the COSMO webCosmin Barbu, Rodica Dumitrache, Bogdan Maco

National Meteorological Administration of Romania

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Outline:

COSMO web team & activity

Common overview of the COSMO web site

Work done 2010-2011

Work planned for 2011-2012

Open discussions

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COSMO web team & work activity

• Ulrich Schaettler (DWD) – WG6 coordinator• Theodore Andreadis (HNMS)• Cosmin Barbu, Bogdan Maco (NMA)• others: PP leaders, WG coordinators, COSMO scientists

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Common overview

General information about COSMO (members, structure, meetings, events, reports/plans, cooperations )

General and specific information about COSMO model (documentation, technical reports, newsletters )

Information about the COSMO tasks :

• status & descriptions of the (old & current) COSMO priority projects

• working group activities

Information about the current model

implementation of each COSMO member

User support & forum

Information about the SRNWP data

exchange programme

www.cosmo-model.org

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Work done (2010-2011)

(regular activity)

Pages which has been updated:

PP & WG pages (task details, working plans, meetings, news) (old PP&WG + new: POMPA PP,

WG7-”Predictability and Ensemble Methods” ) The minutes of STC & SMC meetings

Journal publications

The minutes and presentations of the workshops

Latest version of Fieldextra – see Cosmo utilities software section

The 11th COSMO newsletter

The operational pages for some COSMO members: (only) NMA, (hope soon) DWD

Science plan for 2010-2014 by M. Arpagaus

Note: Information about the latest COSMO web updates can be found on a special page created by Theodore.

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Work to be done (2011-2012)

Pages which have to be updated:

The PP & WG pages + add new information for the new PPs that will come

The minutes of STC & SMC meetings (continuous work)

The operational pages for each COSMO member (information about basic model set-up,

computational resources, operational suite, DA cycle, detailed configuration – INPUT files) + some

suggestive photos

The verification report pages (most of them stopped at 2007)

The COSMO newsletter no. 12

The research activities and the COSMO utilities software web pages

The presentations of User seminar, CLM training & workshops planned for 2012

Creating a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page for COSMO model installation issues (subtask

of “Support of COSMO licensees”)

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Does the COSMO website need to be redesigned??

If “YES” what could be the starting point for that??

Do we need a more dynamical website? What will be the structure of the site?

Identify the most accessed information from the actual website and (maybe) redefine the target users

The website is based on html, js, css. Do we need other web technologies? (php, sql,asp…)

What could be the costs? (FTE’s)

If “NOT” what should be improved??

Identify some web pages that we don’t need anymore

Create new menus/submenus for some scientific purposes

Re-design only the home webpage, but keep the same structure

Increase the communication within the consortium => web pages updated in time

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Thank you for your attention!