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11. NWP at Italian Met Service: current developments Massimo Bonavita, Lucio Torrisi, Fabrizio Ciciulla, Antonio Vocino

12. Past year activities Implementation of observation pre-processing and quality control modules Development of 3D-PSAS objective analysis algorithm (ongoing)3D-PSAS Introduction of asynoptic obs: SATOB, Amdar, Wind Profilers, Quickscat windsSATOBAmdar Wind ProfilersQuickscat winds Implementation of LM at ECMWF, with deterministic postprocessing modules (Automatic Weather Interpretation – AWI)AWI

13. Current activities Increase of effective resolution of regional model to ~30Km grid spacingspacing Development of 3D-PSAS objective analysis algorithm and porting to IBM platform at ECMWF Introduction of ATOVS observations available through the EARS projectEARS Neural network postprocessing of LM fields

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