1. COSMO CONSORTIUM OF SMALL-SCALE MODELLING
HELLENIC NATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE
NUMERICAL FORECASTING-RESEARCH DIVISION
CONSORTIUM OF SMALL-SCALE MODELLING
COSMO
Bucharest, September 2006
Dr. Ioannis Papageorgiou

2. PLANS and EXPECTATIONS from Cosmo-LM in HNMS
HELLENIC NATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE
NUMERICAL FORECASTING-RESEARCH DIVISION
PLANS and EXPECTATIONS
from Cosmo-LM
in HNMS

3. Configuration of Cosmo-LM at HNMS (so far)
MODEL
Domain size: x 14 deg
Horizontal grid spacing: deg
Number of layers: 35
Time step: 40
Forecast range: 48 hrs
Initial time of model runs: 00:00, 06:00,
12:00, 18:00 UTC
Initial state: From DWD ( 00:00 , 12:00)
and nudging ( 06:00, 18:00)
Model version running: 3.1
HARDWARE
Machine: HP Itanium
Number of CPUs: 60 (all available)

4. Configuration of Cosmo-LM at HNMS (in the near future)
MODEL
Domain size: 40.5 x 24.5 deg
Horizontal grid spacing:
Number of layers: 35
Time step: 40
Forecast range: 72 hrs
Initial time of model runs: 00:00
12:00
Initial state: From ECMWF
DWD
Model version running: 3.15
HARDWARE
Machine: IBM Power4
Number of CPUs: 128 (~half CPUs from available total)

5. The whole configuration of Cosmo-LM
ECMWF
Cosmo-LM
NMC
Initial fields
00:00 UTC, 12:00 UTC
6-7 km
Surface:
MSLP
U_10M
V_10M
T_2M
T_D2M
PREC
P Levels:
U, V, Q,
GPH, T

6. Various domains of LM which run at HNMS

7. New operational domains of SKIRON-Εta and Cosmo-LM

8. Meta-processing techniques
Kalman filtering and on-line observations
Issue of sea forecasts in the East Mediterranean Sea

9. Thank you for your attention
HELLENIC NATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE
NUMERICAL FORECASTING-RESEARCH DIVISION
Thank you
for your attention