1. COSMO General Meeting Zurich, 2005 Institute of Meteorology and Water Management Warsaw, Poland- 1 - PLANS FOR FUTURE Institute of Meteorology and Water Management

2. COSMO General Meeting Zurich, 2005 Institute of Meteorology and Water Management Warsaw, Poland- 2 - Contents: Introduction - current status Plans - hardware and software Plans - model Plans - models PLANS FOR FUTURE Conclusions

3. COSMO General Meeting Zurich, 2005 Institute of Meteorology and Water Management Warsaw, Poland- 3 - Hardware and software - key parts Platform: SGI 3800 100CPU (100GFlops) SGI 3200 8CPU OS + environment Model: COSMO-LM Input/OutputModel results Introduction - current status

4. COSMO General Meeting Zurich, 2005 Institute of Meteorology and Water Management Warsaw, Poland- 4 - COSMO-LM - (operational mode) in IMWM since 2001. Twice-a-day - for 00 and 12 UTC input data (from GME). Configuration domain: 2702 km x 2254 km grid size: 193x161x35 grid resolution: 14 km time step: 80 s forecast: 78 hours Introduction - current status

5. COSMO General Meeting Zurich, 2005 Institute of Meteorology and Water Management Warsaw, Poland- 5 - Introduction - current status

6. COSMO General Meeting Zurich, 2005 Institute of Meteorology and Water Management Warsaw, Poland- 6 - Introduction - current status

7. COSMO General Meeting Zurich, 2005 Institute of Meteorology and Water Management Warsaw, Poland- 7 - Global Model GME Local Model (COSMO-LM) Introduction - current status

8. COSMO General Meeting Zurich, 2005 Institute of Meteorology and Water Management Warsaw, Poland- 8 - Plans - hardware and software...upgrade processors (500MHz  ???)...and / or increase number of processors (up to 124)...(routine) upgrade of operational system (IRIX)...(routine) upgrade/intro of managing tools (e.g. LSF queuing system) We plan to...

9. COSMO General Meeting Zurich, 2005 Institute of Meteorology and Water Management Warsaw, Poland- 9 -...start analysis cycle (very shortly)......as a basis for operational data assimilation...increase grid resolution to 7x7 km...start nested models in smaller domains We plan to... Plans - model

10. COSMO General Meeting Zurich, 2005 Institute of Meteorology and Water Management Warsaw, Poland- 10 - Plans - models...set up quasi-operational run(s) of alternative model (MM5)......(just) in case of malfunction or problem with LM We plan to......and to compare results for scientific purposes

11. COSMO General Meeting Zurich, 2005 Institute of Meteorology and Water Management Warsaw, Poland- 11 - Conclusions Some goals are aimed to “stay in business” Others, to forecast needs we shall face sooner or later Some actions would be carried out in next few weeks (months) Other, unfortunately, in months/year(s) - especially hardware ones

12. COSMO General Meeting Zurich, 2005 Institute of Meteorology and Water Management Warsaw, Poland- 12 - THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION