Naissances du modèle et de la coopération Aladin

2021 ◽  
pp. 041
Author(s):  
András Horányi ◽  
Radmila Brožková

Jean-François Geleyn a joué un rôle central dans la création et le fonctionnement de la coopération Aladin sur la prévision numérique du temps (PNT). Le projet Aladin a non seulement développé des outils de prévision numérique du temps à court terme, qui pouvaient être utilisés pour la prévision numérique opérationnelle, mais a également instauré un lien durable entre ses participants. Dans cet article, nous rendons hommage à Jean-François avec notre récit historique et parfois personnel des premières années de la coopération. Nous reconnaissons et soulignons que Jean-François n'a pas seulement créé et façonné la coopération elle-même, mais qu'il a également influencé la carrière et la vie de beaucoup des scientifiques appartenant aux instituts participant à ce projet. Jean-François Geleyn had a pivotal role in the creation and running of the Aladin Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) cooperation. The Aladin project not only developed short-range NWP tools, which could be used for operational numerical forecasting, but also instilled a long-lasting bond among its participants. In this article we pay tribute to Jean-François with our historical and sometimes personal account of the early years of the cooperation. We acknowledge and stress that Jean-François not only created and shaped the cooperation itself, but also influenced the career and life of many scientists from the participating institutes.

2021 ◽  
pp. 094
Author(s):  
Steven Caluwaerts ◽  
Daan Degrauwe ◽  
Piet Termonia

Jean-François Geleyn avait un lien fort avec la Belgique à travers les activités du consortium Aladin. Lorsque l'université de Gand a lancé un programme de troisième cycle sur la météorologie et la prévision numérique du temps en 2007, il est devenu professeur invité et l'un des principaux moteurs de la création de ce programme universitaire. Plus tard, ce programme a été étendu à la modélisation du climat. De nombreux experts de l'Institut royal météorologique de Belgique ont suivi ses cours. Récemment, les activités de l'université de Gand ont servi de base à la création de l'Unité de physique de l'atmosphère dans le Département de physique et d'astronomie. Jean-François Geleyn had a strong link with Belgium through the activities of the ALADIN consortium. When Ghent university started a postgraduate program on meteorology and numerical weather prediction in 2007 he became a guest professor and one of the main driving forces of the creation of this academic program. Later the curriculum of this program was extented to include climate modeling. Many experts at the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium followed his courses. Recently, the activities at Ghent university formed the basis for the creation of the Atmospheric Physics Unit within the Department of Physics and Astronomy.


Atmosphere ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 587
Author(s):  
Magnus Lindskog ◽  
Tomas Landelius

A limited-area kilometre scale numerical weather prediction system is applied to evaluate the effect of refined surface data assimilation on short-range heavy precipitation forecasts. The refinements include a spatially dependent background error representation, use of a flow-dependent data assimilation technique, and use of data from a satellite-based scatterometer instrument. The effect of the enhancements on short-term prediction of intense precipitation events is confirmed through a number of case studies. Verification scores and subjective evaluation of one particular case points at a clear impact of the enhanced surface data assimilation on short-range heavy precipitation forecasts and suggest that it also tends to slightly improve them. Although this is not strictly statistically demonstrated, it is consistent with the expectation that a better surface state should improve rainfall forecasts.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyo-Jong Song

Abstract Numerical weather prediction provides essential information of societal influence. Advances in the initial condition estimation have led to the improvement of the prediction skill. The process to produce the better initial condition (analysis) with the combination of short-range forecast and observation over the globe requires information about uncertainty of the forecast results to decide how much observation is reflected to the analysis and how far the observation information should be propagated. Forecast ensemble represents the error of the short-range forecast at the instance. The influence of observation propagating along with forecast ensemble correlation needs to be restricted by localized correlation function because of less reliability of sample correlation. So far, solitary radius of influence is usually used since there has not been an understanding about the realism of multiple scales in the forecast uncertainty. In this study, it is explicitly shown that multiple scales exist in short-range forecast error and any single-scale localization approach could not resolve this situation. A combination of Gaussian correlation functions of various scales is designed, which more weighs observation itself near the data point and makes ensemble perturbation, far from the observation position, more participate in decision of the analysis. Its outstanding performance supports the existence of multi-scale correlation in forecast uncertainty.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kasper S. Hintz ◽  
Conor McNicholas ◽  
Roger Randriamampianina ◽  
Hywel T. P. Williams ◽  
Bruce Macpherson ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sijin Zhang ◽  
Gerard Barrow ◽  
Iman Soltanzadeh ◽  
Graham Rye ◽  
Yizhe Zhan ◽  
...  

Abstract RainCast is a rapid update forecasting system that has been developed to improve short-range rainfall forecasting in New Zealand. This system blends extrapolated nowcast information with multiple forecasts from numerical weather prediction (NWP) models to generate updated rain forecasts every hour. It is demonstrated that RainCast is able to outperform the rainfall forecasts produced from NWP systems out to 24 hours, with the greatest improvement in the first 3-4 hours. The limitations of RainCast are also discussed, along with recommendations on how to further improve the system.


Author(s):  
I.А. Rozinkina ◽  
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G.S . Rivin ◽  
R.N. Burak ◽  
Е.D. Аstakhova ◽  
...  

The paper considers the results of activities on the development of output products for the non-hydrostatic short-range numerical weather prediction systems: COSMO-RuBy with a grid spacing of 2.2 km at the Hydrometcentre of Russia and WRF-ARW with a grid spacing of 3 km in Belhydromet. The important results of the activities are the organization of the exchange of unified products between the countries and the development at the Hydrometcentre of Russia of two technologies for obtaining the unified products: the multi-model lagged ensemble system and the system for the complex correction based on machine learning of model results. A specialized web-site providing convenient work of forecasters with the COSMO-RuBy results and unified products was created at the Hydrometcentre of Russia based on the feedback from forecasters. The systems of common visualization and verification of COSMO-RuBy and WRF-ARW results are implemented in Belhydromet. Keywords: numerical weather prediction, ensemble forecasting, visualization, machine learning


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