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Mesoscale model experience with UM at met.no

Mesoscale model experience with UM at met.no. HIRLAM-ALADIN-MF miniworkshop 12/12/05 Dag Bjørge. NWP collaboration in Europe. Short version of UM history at met.no. 2002: Met Office–met.no NWP collaboration 2003: UM 3km, S-Norway grid, forced by Met Office 20km and Hirlam 10km

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Mesoscale model experience with UM at met.no

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  1. Mesoscale model experience with UM at met.no HIRLAM-ALADIN-MF miniworkshop 12/12/05 Dag Bjørge

  2. NWP collaboration in Europe

  3. Short version of UM history at met.no • 2002: Met Office–met.no NWP collaboration • 2003: UM 3km, S-Norway grid, forced by Met Office 20km and Hirlam 10km • 2004: UM 4km, Norway grid, forced by HL 10km • 2005: ”UM4XL”, Norway/Sweden grid • Nov2005: UM 1km, 3 small grids nested into UM4XL

  4. How does it perform ?

  5. Temperature

  6. How is the UM model set up ? • Climate and parameter files from Met Office ”ancil generation” software • LBC’s from Hirlam 10km, interpolation with ”hl2um” ( a met.no mixture of subroutines from UM and Hirlam ) • Some surface fields from Hirlam … • Some fields from previous +12h forecast …

  7. 300 * 500 * 38 gridpoints, • 4km resolution, 100s timestep • Hourly postprocessing of surface fields, 3 hourly pressure levels, 6 hourly model levels • Boundary fields written out every 20 minutes for +8h to +21h, for nesting of 3 UM 1km grids • Runs on 280 CPUs, at 00UTC and 12UTC • 48h forecast in ~1h45min • SGI Origin 3800 ( to be replaced next year )

  8. What does it look like ? • Quasi operational runs • Different experiments • Temperature problem solved (last week)

  9. The model chain at met.no • The ”turbulence project” is used to describe the different models we now have available for forecasting at global to local ( airport ) scale.

  10. Why a turbulence project ? ”På grunn av variable og vanskelige vindforhold bestemte kapteinen seg for å avbryte landinga. Da kom det et kraftig vindkast, og flyet smalt i bakken.”

  11. Orography and resolution ( ”Seven sisters” )

  12. LBCs (~50km) for Hirlam20 and Hirlam10 at 3 hour intervals ( usually 6 hours old )

  13. Hirlam10 • Starts from interpolated Hirlam20-analysis • Boundaries ( frames ) from ECMWF • Writes ”model dumps” / ”history files” every hour for nesting of Met Office Unified Model ( UM4 )

  14. Hirlam10 and UM4

  15. UM 4km with three UM 1km grids

  16. The ”lifetime” of LBCs in a small grid 30min intervals

  17. UM1 • Starts for all airports as soon as UM4 has reached it’s +21 hour forecast • UM1 starts at UM4 +8h forecast, spins up for one hour • Writes full model dumps at +9, +12, +15, +18 and +21 • The turbulence model called ”Simra” is then run for each of these instances

  18. Operational cycles • The model system as described is run twice a day at 00UTC and 12UTC • Results are continously updated through the run, and can be studied as the forecast is produced

  19. UM1, Sandnessjøen

  20. Example of product, inflight cone

  21. Example of product, inflight turbulence in cross section

  22. Some examples of different treatment of precipitation in the different models

  23. ”Precipitation shaddow”, Hirlam / UM

  24. Tromsø-area, Hirlam10 and UM4

  25. Structure of precipitation, HL20/10, UM4, radar

  26. Ad hoc setup of UM for the Barents sea • Example showing a ”polar low”

  27. Polar low in UM 4km

  28. Hirlam10 og UM4

  29. UM4 +23h, mslp and wind

  30. Temperature problem ( solved last week ) • um505_thetamono_no.mf77 • A fix for the valley cooling problem. It is an active area of investigation and we may come up with alternative/better solutions, but this will hopefully work in the short term.

  31. Comparing Hirlam and UM • Hirlam has been set up on exactly the same ( horizontal ) grid as UM4XL • Hirlam version 6.4.1+ • H04 runs started in November on the met.no Linux cluster • Some technical difficulties … • Computer resources (SGI) : UM = 3 * HL

  32. Heavy precipitation and flooding at the western coast of Norway in November

  33. Hirlam 4km UM 4km

  34. Hirlam 4km, 12h accumulated precip

  35. UM 4km, 12h accumulated precip

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