CONFESS hosted its second General Assembly with project partners on the Wednesday, 1st December 2021 from 09:00 UK Time.

All work package leaders and most of the project team members were present and presented the progress of the project.

Presentations from the meeting are available below.

Time	Item	Presenter
9:00-9:05	Welcome	Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda (ECMWF)
WP1
9:05-9:10	WP1 update	Constantin Ardilouze (MF)
9:10-9:25	Comparison of LAI trends	Gildas Dayon (MF)
9:25-9:40	Impacts of interannually varying LAI vs. evolving LULC	Souhail Boussetta (ECMWF)
9:40-9:50	Improved effective vegetation cover parameterization	Fransje van Oorschot (CNR-ISAC)
9:50-10:00	Multi-model study on the effect of inter-annually varying LAI	Fransje van Oorschot (CNR-ISAC)
WP2
10:00-10:05	WP2 update	Roberto Bilbao (BSC)
10:05-10:15	Tropospheric and volcanic aerosol developments	Tim Stockdale (ECMWF)
10:15-10:25	Preliminary evaluation of the CONFESS biomass burning experiments with the ECMWF ENS system.	Angela Benedetti (ECMWF)
10:25-10:35	An empirical model for predicting biomass emissions.	Pablo Ortega (BSC)
10:35-10:45	Comparison of CMIP6, EVA and EVA_H volcanic forcings and climate response in EC-Earth3.	Roberto Bilbao (BSC)
10:45-11:00  Coffee break
WP3
11:00-11:05	WP3 update	Lauriane Batté (MF)
11:05-11:20	Impact of interactive vegetation on seasonal prediction in the CNRM-CM model	Gildas Dayon (MF)
11:20-11:35	Effects of the realistic vegetation cover on predictions at seasonal and decadal time scales	Andrea Alessandri / Emanuele DiCarlo (CNR-ISAC)
11:35-11:50	Time-varying vegetation: Initial results from ECMWF seasonal hindcasts	Retish Senan (ECMWF)
11:50-12:05	Impact of volcanic eruptions on decadal predictions	Roberto Bilbao (BSC)
WP4 & closure
12:05 – 12:10	WP4 -Coordination and Dissemination	Tanya Warnaars (ECMWF)
12:10-12:15	Closure