A general formulation for nonlinear initialization of a numerical weather prediction model. experiments with a shallow-water limited area model

1989 ◽  
Vol 75 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 127-140
Author(s):  
Régis Juvanon Du Vachat
2012 ◽  
Vol 140 (10) ◽  
pp. 3137-3148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piet Termonia ◽  
Fabrice Voitus ◽  
Daan Degrauwe ◽  
Steven Caluwaerts ◽  
Rafiq Hamdi

Abstract This paper describes the implementation of a proposal of Boyd for the periodization and relaxation of the fields in a full three-dimensional spectral semi-implicit semi-Lagrangian limited-area model structure of an atmospheric modeling system called HARMONIE that is used for numerical weather prediction and regional climate studies. Some first feasibility tests in an operational numerical weather prediction context are presented. They show that, in terms of standard operational forecast scores, Boyd’s windowing-based method provides comparable performance as the old existing spline-based periodization procedure. However, the real improvements of this method should be expected in specific cases of strong dynamical forcings at the lateral boundaries. An extensive demonstration of the superiority of this windowing-based method is provided in an accompanying paper.


2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (11) ◽  
pp. 8982-8996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alla Yurova ◽  
Mikhail Tolstykh ◽  
Mats Nilsson ◽  
Andrey Sirin

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