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Achievements and present actions

OMSZ – Hungarian Meteorological Service

Dr. Kornélia RADICSPresident

14th ICSEED Meeting (5– 6 November 2015, Bukarest, Romania)

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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

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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

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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

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Observations

Upgrade of Poganyvar radar finalized 30 October, 2015

Supported by the Ministry of Agriculture

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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)

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Support to climate adaptation

Meteorological data for National Adaptation Geo-Information 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”

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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)

Greenhouse Gas Inventory– CO2, CH4, N2O, F-gas emissions and removals since 2007 – SO2, NOx, VOC, NH3, CO, PM, Heavy Metals, POPs since 2012

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Calibration Laboratory

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70-80% of PM originated from abroad 60% of PM exported

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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)

ALADIN/LACE – Short range numerical weather prediction

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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

International relations

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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.

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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 OrganizationECMWF Memebr State visit: Gianpaolo Balsamo (Research Department) Ivan Tsonevsky (Operations Department)

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Outreach to wider public

The input site of the MET-ÉSZ system

on a smartphone display METEORA application on

a smartphone display

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

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