3rd International NAWDIC Workshop 2025

We cordially invite you to participate in the 3rd International NAWDIC Workshop taking place in Karlsruhe, Germany, from 15 to 17 September 2025. This workshop will be a great opportunity for the international NAWDIC community to come together in person, less than 6 months before the campaign begins. Besides discussing the exciting NAWDIC science, we aim to create observational synergies and fine-tune our coordination procedures to make best use of this unique and powerful measurement setup. For this reason, we explicitly encourage on-site participation.

The meeting will start on Mon, 15 September around noon and end on Wed, 17 September in the early afternoon. It will take place at Campus South of KIT, located in the city center of Karlsruhe and close by the beautiful Karlsruhe Palace. Online participation will be possible.  

You are also welcome to join the NAWDIC-DICHOTOMI Kick-Off Meeting, taking place on Thu, 18 September at the same place. A detailed agenda will be published here.

Furthermore, we invite you to participate in the training session for the interactive visualization tool Met.3D, scheduled for Thu, 18 September from 09:00h to 12:00h (see details below).

The International NAWDIC Workshop 2025 is financially supported by HALO-SPP 1294.

Agenda

The latest version of the detailed agenda can be found here. 

The following table shows an overview of the planned sessions. All times are given in CEST (UTC+2).

Location

All sessions and discussions will take place in Building 50.41, Room 045/046 of KIT Campus South (Street address: Adenauerring 20, 76131 Karlsruhe), located about 800 m from the tram stop “Durlacher Tor/KIT Campus Süd”. Free parking is available close to the building (“Waldparkplatz”).

Refreshments

Lunch snacks, coffee breaks, and soft drinks will be provided free of charge. Costs for dinner need to be covered by the participants.

Met.3D Training Workshop

We plan to use our interactive 3-D visual analysis software "Met.3D" (https://met3d.readthedocs.io/) as one tool during NAWDIC for weather forecast exploration and flight planning. The software has evolved from more than a decade of work at the intersection of computer science and meteorology research and features interactive 2-D and 3-D visualization of weather forecast data to assist the flight planning process (and, after the campaign, to support research tasks to analyse the observed cases).

In this workshop, we would like to train you in using Met.3D and discuss your analysis/visualization requirements for the campaign. Please come yourself or send your colleagues/students! Topics include hands-on training and discussion of the required setup (hardware, forecast data, predefined forecast products).

If you haven't heard of Met.3D, have a look at this demo video (https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/69875), at this article describing the use of Met.3D during the Cirrus-HL campaign (https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0103.1) and at our evolving NRT-website that already features some batch-produced products of current ICON-EU forecasts (https://wx.hcds.uni-hamburg.de; the page will be extended for NAWDIC with products you need, and note that these visualizations are fully interactive in the Met.3D desktop software). If you have questions, contact Marc (marc.rautenhaus∂uni-hamburg.de).

The training workshop is scheduled for Thu, 18 September, from 09:00 to 12:00 h in Building 20.21, Pool Room I (Room -121) at KIT Campus South (Street address: Zirkel 2, 76131 Karlsruhe). Online participation will be possible. Futher instructions will be sent directly to the registered participants.

Accommodation

Please make your own choice. Several hotel options are available in the city center of Karlsruhe. Some suggestions are the following:

• https://www.hotelammarkt.de/
• https://www.hotel-erbprinzenhof.de/
• https://hotel-markgraefler-hof.de/

Travel

From Frankfurt International Airport, you can reach Karlsruhe in about 1 hour by train or about 1.5 hours by car. KIT Campus South (Tram stop “Durlacher Tor/KIT Campus Süd”) is located about 10 minutes away from Karlsruhe Central Station by public transportation. 

We look forward to seeing you in Karlsruhe and online!