COSMO GENERAL MEETING HELLENIC NATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE (HNMS) Krakow, 15-19 September 2008 PLANS and EXPECTATIONS from COSMO-GR in HNMS Dr. Theagenis Charantonis e-mail: tchara@hnms.gr
Achievements from last year Operational use of Cosmo-GR for issuing marine routes in the Aegean Sea (next slide). Almost full compliance with the PP that we participated Web site support
Status of our NWP System Hellenic National Meteorological Service models are: COSMO – GR RAMS SKIRON
Configuration of Cosmo-GR at HNMS HARDWARE Main Machine: IBM Power4 Cluster 0.3TerraF Sub.Perf (sp) Number of CPUs: 140 (~half CPUs from available total) Backup Machine: HP Itanium Cluster 50GF(sp) as back up and research purposes MODEL Domain size: 40.5 x 24.5 deg Horizontal grid spacing: 0.0625 Number of layers: 35 Time step: 30 sec Forecast range: 72 hrs (in 45 min) Initial time of model runs: 00:00 12:00 Initial state: From ECMWF From DWD Model version running: 4.0
The whole configuration of COSMO-GR ECMWF/DWD Cosmo-GR NMC Initial fields 00:00 UTC, 12:00 UTC 6-7 km MSLP GPH U V T Td Q PRECI
The operational domains of SKIRON-Εta and COSMO-GR
Strategy of HNMS Implementation of 2.7Km COSMO-GR and parallel running for Verification purposes, especially for some important cases affected Greek area. Development of special applications to assist forecaster’s work (TAF, Sea Bulletins etc) Implementation of COSMO-GR in Nowcasting System Collaborations with Greek Universities and other National Research Institutes
Improvements - applications - research in HNMS for the next year using Cosmo-GR Better incorporation in Nudging of AMDAR, buoys and AMS information Operational use of COSMO-GR for pollution events over the East Mediterranean Sea (Collaboration with WMO and MeteoFrance) Systematic verification of all operational models Use of the Common Verification developed as a priority project Use of SREPS results + 24 hrs
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