Date of publication: April 2005
| COSMO Newsletter No. 5 Table of Contents | |||
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| 01 | Introduction | 3 | |
| 02 | The COSMO Consortium | 5 | |
| 2.1 | General | 5 | |
| 2.2 | Agreement | 5 | |
| 2.3 | Organizational Structure | 6 | |
| 03 | Model System Overview | 7 | |
| 3.1 | Short Description of the LM | 7 | |
| 3.2 | Data Assimilation | 15 | |
| 3.3 | Boundary Conditions from Driving Models | 20 | |
| 3.4 | Postprocessing | 20 | |
| 3.5 | Data Flow of the LM Package | 21 | |
| 3.6 | Documentation | 22 | |
| 04 | Operational Applications | 24 | |
| 4.1 | ARPA-SIM | 25 | |
| 4.2 | DWD | 26 | |
| 4.3 | HNMS | 28 | |
| 4.4 | IMGW | 29 | |
| 4.5 | MeteoSwiss | 30 | |
| 4.6 | UGM/CNMCA | 34 | |
| 4.7 | NMA | 35 | |
| 4.8 | COSMO Limited-Area Ensemble Prediction System | 36 | |
| 05 | Changes to the Model System | 38 | |
| 5.1 | Major Changes to LM | 38 | |
| 5.2 | Major Changes to GME2LM | 42 | |
| 5.3 | The new Interpolation Program INT2LM | 42 | |
| 06 | Working Groups | 44 | |
| 6.1 | WG 1: Data Assimilation | 44 | |
| 6.2 | WG 2: Numerical Aspects | 46 | |
| 6.3 | WG 3: Physical Aspects | 46 | |
| 6.4 | WG 4: Interpretation and Applications | 48 | |
| 6.5 | WG 5: Verification and Case Studies | 49 | |
| 6.6 | WG 6: Reference Version and Implementation | 50 | |
| 07 | COSMO Meetings and Events | 52 | |
| 7.1 | Meetings in 2003 | 52 | |
| 7.2 | Guest Scientists | 56 | |
| 7.3 | Internal Visits | 57 | |
| 7.4 | Upcoming COSMO Meetings | 57 | |
| 7.5 | Announcements | 58 | |
| 08 | Results and Methods of Model Verification (Introduction) | Author | 60 |
| 8.1 | Progress on LAMI, LM-DWD, aLMo verification over Northern Italy | M. Turco, E. Oberto, P. Bertolotto | 62 |
| 8.2 | Verification Results for LM at DWD | U. Damrath | 72 |
| 8.3 | Verification of LAMI at SYNOP-Stations | P. Emiliani, A. Galliani | 77 |
| 8.4 | High Resolution Verification of Daily Cycle over Switzerland | F. Schubiger | 88 |
| 8.5 | Verification of LM-COSMO Model in Poland with SYNOP and Rain Gauge Data | K. Starosta, J. Linkowska | 94 |
| 8.6 | Operational Verification of Vertical Profiles at MeteoSwiss | M. Arpagaus | 102 |
| 8.7 | Operational Verification of Vertical Profiles at DWD | U. Pflüger | 106 |
| 8.8 | Verification of aLMo with SYNOP and GPS data over Europe | P. Kaufmann | 113 |
| 8.9 | Vertical Profiles - A Comparison between German, Italian and Swiss Verification | P. Kaufmann, M. Arpagaus, P. Emiliani, E. Veccia, A. Galliani, U. Pflüger | 118 |
| 09 | Model Development and Application (introduction) | Author | 123 |
| 9.1 | Latent Heat Nudging and Prognostic Precipitation | S. Klink, K. Stephan | 124 |
| 9.2 | The Coordinate Transformations of the 3-Dimensional Turbulent Diffusion in LMK | M. Baldauf | 132 |
| 9.3 | A new Option for Rayleigh Damping: Preliminary Tests | L. Torrisi | 141 |
| 9.4 | Impact of Domain Size on LM Forecast | L. Torrisi | 145 |
| 9.5 | A Z-coordinate Version of the Nonhydrostatic Model LM | J. Steppeler, et.al. | 149 |
| 9.6 | A new Method for T2M Forecast in Complex Orography Areas | D. Cane, M. Milelli | 151 |
| 9.7 | Introducing the Lokal-Modell LME at the German Weather Service | J.-P. Schulz | 158 |
| 10 | Collaboration and External Users of LM | 160 | |
| 10.1 | International Projects | 160 | |
| 10.2 | National Projects and Collaboration | 162 | |
| 10.3 | External Users of LM | 163 | |
| Appendices | 166 | ||
| References | 166 | ||
| A | The GRIB Binary Data Format used for LM I/O | 170 | |
| B | Available LM Output Fields | 176 | |
| C | List of COSMO Newsletters and Technical Reports | 182 | |