The 5th SRNWP (Short Range Numerical Weather Prediction) Mini Workshop on Numerical Techniques, was held in Zagreb, Croatia on 5-6 December 2006. Representatives of EUMETNET, ALADIN, ECMWF, HIRLAM, INM/RAS and UKMO groups were present.

List of participants

Schedule
• N. Wood (UKMO): A physically-based, second-order accurate, unconditionally stable diffusion scheme
• P. Termonia (Aladin): Stability and accuracy of the physics-dynamics coupling in spectral models
• N. Wedi (ECMWF): Non-hydrostatic IFS developments at ECMWF
• M. Zerroukat (UKMO): SLICE-3D: A three-dimensional conservative semi-Lagrangian scheme for transport problems
• M. Tolstykh (INM/RAS): Global variable-resolution semi-Lagrangian model SL-AV: current status and further developments
• F. Voitus (Aladin): New approaches for the formulation of LBCs in spectral LAM models
• M. Diamantakis (UKMO): Exploring an iterative approach to the semi-implicit, semi-Lagrangian time-stepping in the Met Office non-hydrostatic model
• P. Bénard (Aladin): Status about NH applications at Météo-France
• J. Vivoda (Aladin): Design of ALADIN NH with VFE discretization
• Discussion about NH numerical topics

Report