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Proceedings - C-SRNWP Project

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LIMITED AREA MODELLING ACTIVITIES AT THE<br />

ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF<br />

BELGIUM<br />

Josette VANDERBORGHT (josette.vanderborght@oma.be)<br />

Operational Aladin Belgium<br />

The computer system<br />

• SGI Altix 3700 BX2 , 56 Itanium2 1,5Ghz 6Mbyte CPU’s<br />

• Peak performance: 4.1 Gflop/processor<br />

• 104 Gbyte internal memory<br />

Aladin-Belgium<br />

• Model version : AL29t2<br />

• 60 hour production forecasts 4 times a day ( 0,6,12 and 18 UTC)<br />

• Lateral boundary conditions from ALADIN-France and ARPEGE global model<br />

Model geometry<br />

• 7 km horizontal resolution (240*240 points)<br />

• 46 vertical levels<br />

• Linear spectral truncation, Lambert projection<br />

Forecast settings<br />

• Digital filter initialisation (DFI)<br />

• 2-time level semi-implicit semi-Lagrangian- advection scheme, 300 s time step<br />

• Lateral boundary coupling every 3 hours<br />

• Hourly post-processing ( latitude-longitude and Lambert)<br />

Technical aspects of the operational suite:<br />

• Transfer of coupling files from Météo-France via Internet and via he Regional<br />

Meteorological Data Communication Network RMDCN<br />

• Model integration on 16 processors<br />

• Continuous monitoring by home-made kornshell/web interface<br />

• In the next future: monitoring by the SMS system<br />

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES<br />

MOIST PARAMETERIZATIONS<br />

A coherent package integrating the main “moist” parameterizations: deep convection,<br />

resolved condensation, microphysics has been developed by Luc Gerard.<br />

It produces realistic behaviors at all resolutions, from grid meshes larger than 20km (where<br />

deep convection is sub-grid) to 2km (where deep convection is mostly resolved), including<br />

the intermediate resolutions (typically 4km).<br />

The package, developed in the frame of the Arpège-Aladin model, includes:<br />

• A large-scale condensation scheme based on Smith (1990).<br />

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