COSMO model at NMA

Last updated: February 2018

Contents

  1. Basic model set-up
  2. Computational resources
  3. Detailed Configuration

1. Basic model set-up

At the National Meteorological Administration of Romania (NMA), the COSMO model (named LM until 2007) is integrated 4 times/day using ≈7km and ≈ 2.8km grid spacing.

Fig.1 The COSMO-Ro7 domain at NMA Fig.2 The COSMO-Ro2 domain at NMA
brief overview of the main features
COSMO-Ro7 COSMO-Ro2
Binary version 5.06 5.06
Domain Size 201x177 points 361x291 points
Horizontal Grid Spacing 0.0625o (≈7 km) 0.025o (≈2.8 km)
Number of Layers 40 50
Time Step 66 sec 25 sec
Initial Time of Model Runs 00/6/12/18 UTC 00/6/12/18 UTC
Forecast Range 78/48/174/48 hours 30/18/84/30 hours
Lateral Boundary Conditions ICON at 3-hrs intervals COSMO-Ro7 at 1-hr intervals
Data Assimilation synop synop
External Analyses None None

2. Computational resources

The previous Hs21, Hs22, Hs23 servers are now used as backup solution.

3. Detailed Configuration

Pre-processing INT2LM namelists COSMO namelists Post-processing
COSMO-Ro7 None INPUT INPUT_IO, INPUT_ORG, INPUT_DYN, INPUT_PHY, INPUT_DIA, INPUT_ASS Mainly Graphics
COSMO-Ro2 None INPUT INPUT_IO, INPUT_ORG, INPUT_DYN, INPUT_PHY, INPUT_DIA, INPUT_ASS Mainly Graphics