1. COSMO GENERAL MEETING HELLENIC NATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE (HNMS)
Krakow, September 2008
PLANS and EXPECTATIONS from COSMO-GR
in HNMS
Dr. Theagenis Charantonis

2. 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

4. Status of our NWP System
Hellenic National Meteorological Service models are:
COSMO – GR
RAMS
SKIRON

5. 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:
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

6. 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

7. The operational domains of SKIRON-Εta and COSMO-GR

8. 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

9. 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

10. Thank you for your attention
HELLENIC NATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE
(HNMS)
NUMERICAL FORECASTING-RESEARCH DIVISION
Thank you
for your attention