Limited Area Modelling Activities at Portuguese Meteorological Service 20022003

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Limited Area Modelling Activitiesat Portuguese
Meteorological Service(2002/2003)

• Maria Monteiro
• (maria.monteiro_at_meteo.pt)

25th EWGLAM 10th SRNWP meetings Lisbon, 6-9
October 2003
Portugal Instituto de Meteorologia
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Overview

• Summary of main activity
• Workstation version of ALADIN/Portugal
• Derived fields and validation of diagnostic tools
• Objective verification

25th EWGLAM 10th SRNWP meetings Lisbon, 6-9
October 2003
Portugal Instituto de Meteorologia
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Main Activities

• Local maintenance of actual tools and no
  substantial changes occured on the operational
  scheme of ALADIN/Portugal
• Human resources mostly dedicated to validation
  and verification of NWP tools
• Start of dissemination of ALADIN/Portugal
  products as support for operational modelling
  activities
• In particular,
• Diagnostic tools, in particular some improvements
  on the stability indexes objective validation
  of those tools have been attempted
• Changes on the verification tools for
  intercomparision of model outputs
• Verification/validation of CANARI (AL12_bf02)

25th EWGLAM 10th SRNWP meetings Lisbon, 6-9
October 2003
Portugal Instituto de Meteorologia
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Foreseen activities

• Maintenance of ALADIN/Portugal WS actual
  operational version
• Improvement of verification tools
• Operational implementation of diagnostic tools
• Validation and operational installation of CANARI
• Dissemination of fields as support for the MATCH
  (Multi-scale Atmospheric Transport and Chemistry
  model)

25th EWGLAM 10th SRNWP meetings Lisbon, 6-9
October 2003
Portugal Instituto de Meteorologia