Exposing the Conceptual Model of the Northerly Cold Surge into Researcher Community

In the training for researcher community in BMKG, Indonesia, held on early April 2016, Wido Hanggoro has introduced the conceptual model of Northerly Cold Surge (NCS) which was developed during the CM4SH project Phase 2 on 2015/16 to BMKG researchers and delivered its scientific content. Within his talk, he conversed how the NCS is found to be a favorable environment for convection in the Maritime Continent and how crucial it is for BMKG forecaster to have a comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon. Besides schematics and graphics describing physical processes of the phenomenon, a meteogram has been produced as well as an applicable guidance for forecaster in identifying the phenomenon.

In this opportunity, Wido guided the participants to make a meteogram by themselves using GFS Ensemble from 22 models and running the key parameters using Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS). He took the data from COLA Indian Monsoon Data (www.monsoondata.org) for this exercise. For the real CM work, he was using the ECMWF gridded data, which he stored in our R&D data server. Our colleagues were very happy with the openly shared GrADS script and data required, and they came up with ideas to analyze the NCS more thoroughly based on what they have learned in the meteogram. 

As the final touch, Wido emphasized that collaborative research can be done successfully virtually, unbound to time and location. This undoubtedly fact is based on our CM4SH work, since we have proven that although our member team is very much mobile and be in different countries almost the entire work, but with online discussions using online collaboration tools and virtually shared data in dedicated server, we have nailed it.  

Now we are ready to work on our next CM J

-Asteria Handayani (Tya) & Wido Hanggoro-