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The AROME project<br />

AROME model will complete the french NWP system <strong>in</strong> 2008 :<br />

– ARPEGE : global model (15 km over Europe)<br />

– ALADIN-France : regional model (10km)<br />

– AROME : mesoscale model (2.5km)<br />

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Aim : <strong>to</strong> improve local meteorological forecasts of potentially dangerous<br />

convective events (s<strong>to</strong>rms, unexpected floods, w<strong>in</strong>d bursts...) and lower<br />

tropospheric phenomena (w<strong>in</strong>d, temperature, turbulence, visibility...).<br />

ARPEGE stretched grid<br />

and ALADIN-FRANCE doma<strong>in</strong><br />

AROME France doma<strong>in</strong>

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