Training Schools supported by COST Harmosnow Action

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Training School on Snow Observations and Data Assimilation in Bormio, 12-16 March 2018

COST action ES1404 on snow, https://harmosnow.eu will arrange a spring school on snow, focusing on snow data assimilation. The training school will be held in Bormio, Italy in March 12-16, 2018.

Objectives
To learn and discuss the state-of-the art and developing snow data assimilation methods for NWP, hydrology and detailed snowpack models:

Importance of snow data assimilation for forecast and applications

Availability, uncertainties and usage of observations for the models

Methods of objective analysis and data assimilation

Using of observations for model evaluation

Target audience

PhD and graduate level students who want to learn data assimilation methods for snow

Modellers who want to advance their skill in data assimilation and understand the snow observations better

Observation specialists who want to learn how the observations are used in models

The participants should have a basic knowledge in snow physics and numerical methods. Applicants from COST inclusiveness countries (link) are welcome

Funding
COST will cover all local expenses including accommodation, food and the field trip. The flight tickets and local transport (up to 300 euros) will be covered by application when necessary. In special cases the travel budget can be extended.

Contents
Lectures, practical exercises and a field trip on

Introduction to NWP/hydrology/snowpack models and their snow data assimilation

Methods of data assimilation

Snow observations applicable for data assimilation in the models

Snow-related applications

Credits
COST ES-1404 considers that the school programme is equivalent to 3 ECTS.

>>Link to the school page

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3rd Snow Science Winter School

Date and Place: 12-18 February 2017, Sodankylä, Finland

The 3rd Snow Science Winter School will teach advanced field techniques, (e.g. high-resolution penetrometry and casting of snow samples for micro-tomography), and relate these measurements to microwave and spectral albedo measurements. The site of the third Winter School, the FMI Arctic Research Centre, has a unique setup of ground-based microwave radiometers and optical spectrometers.

Any graduate student or post-doc working on snow or in some snow related field, this year especially in remote sensing of the cryosphere, is welcome ot participate. Those fields include everybody interested in cryospheric sciences.

The housing will be in Sodankylä with direct access to the field sites. The 3rd Snow Science Winter School will be organized at the campus of the FMI Arctic Research Centre (FMI-ARC) in the Finnish Lapland. Scientific activities at the site date back to 1858, when the Societas Scientarum Fennica founded the first weather station near the community of Sodankylä (orig. Soađegilli in the Sami language), above the Arctic circle.

>>More information and application