Workshop Meteorological Panel 6 - 7 February 2015 Winterthur, Switzerland

This meeting of the Meteorological Panel was kindly organized by Bruno Neininger and his team at Zurich University of Applied Sciences in cooperration with Zafer Aslan of Istanbul Aydin Universit.

Programme of the Workshop

OPENING CEREMONY
Message of the OSTIV President	Loek Boermans	Message
Session I Atmospheric Convection, Mountain Waves, Soaring
The Himalaya Expedition, lee-waves and wave turbulence	René Heise	Presentation
An application with Google Glass for Para-gliders	Karl Rege	Presentation
Session II Modeling, Training Programs for Soaring
The Soaring Meteorology Course of the University of Munich	Martin Hagen	Presentation
AlpTherm_2 - a new version of a Lagrangian convection model for global use	Bruno Neininger
An Introduction to the high Resolution Models COSMO-2 and COSMO-1 and their Potential for theForecast of Convection	Jürg Schmidli
Session III Modeling, Group Discussion/ Miscellaneous
The convective boundary layer (CBL), a now well understood concept, is necessary to the new approach of flight aerology	Jean Oberson	www.soaringmeteo.ch
Simulation of the Mesoscale Conditions of a Waterspout Event Occurred in Istanbul Turkey by using the WRF Model	S. S. Mentes, E. Tan, S. N. Korkusuz and Y. S. Unal
Investigation of the Effect of Snowfall on the Flights in Turkey	A. Çakin, I. Ceyhan, V. Yavuz, E. T. Özdemir, C. Temiz and A. Deniz
Improving the Forecast of Tuzla Waterspout in Istanbul by 3DVAR Radar Data Assimilation	Y. S. Unal and M. Acar
In the evening of the first day the participants enjoyed a dinner offered by the Centre for Aviation.
Session IV Panel
- An Outline of the Solar Impulse Project (Bruno is a Member of the Core Team; René is a Consultant) - Micro-lift (Topic highlighted by Prof. Dr. P. Morelli), Rayleigh Benard Convection (Theory of it) - Renewing of OSTIV-WMO Handbook and definition of Renewable Committee Members, - Mission and Vision of OSTIV-METEOROLGY PANEL - Discussions about the aims and the future of the Meteorological Panel
Archaeopteryx - an ultralight glider, using microlift, developed in Winterthur	Hanfried Hesselbarth	Presentation
Session V Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation of Soaring Problems
The Implications of Dust Plume on Aviation in Turkey: A Case Study of Dust Plume on 7 and 8 April, 2013	E. T. Özdemir and A. Deniz
SoarGFS, the output of the famous GFS model adapted to soaring prediction around the world	Jean Oberson	www.soaringmeteo.ch
Detection of volcanic ash using multispectral satellite data	H. Baltaci, T. Kindap, A. Ünal, and M. Karaca	Presentation
Session VI Climate Change, Mathematical Modeling of Aeronautical Problems
Can You Read the Wave?	Jim Herd	Presentation Article
Squall Line over Antalya	V. Yavuz, C. TemIz, E. T. Özdemir and A. Deniz
The Effects of Climate Change on Evaporation and Evapotranspiration and Soaring	F. Dökmen and Z. Aslan
High Resolution Simulation of a Microburst Event occurred in Ankara Turkey by using the WRF Model	E. Tan, S. S. Mentes, Z. Aslan, S. Topcu and N. Göktepe	Presentation Poster
CLOSING SESSION
Information about the Centre of Aviation, with a short visit of the Simulator, Wind Tunnel, and other infrastructure	Bruno Neininger and his team