Monthly Archives: May 2018

Evaluating convective-permitting models over South Africa

Posted on 21 May, 2018 by Stephen Burt

By Will Keat Several operational forecasting centres around the world now run convective-permitting models (CPMs) to forecast rainfall. These kilometre-scale models are sufficiently high  resolution to allow convection to be resolved explicitly (i.e. without the need for parameterisation), and have … Continue reading →

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Climate change in the Mediterranean Sea

Posted on 14 May, 2018 by Stephen Burt

By Fanny Adloff The Mediterranean is the largest semi-enclosed sea on our planet. Acting as a miniature ocean, this basin is appropriate to study climate change impact on the ocean. The residence time of the Mediterranean waters – of about … Continue reading →

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The “size” of the NWP/DA problem

Posted on 8 May, 2018 by Stephen Burt

By Javier Amezcua There is a professor in the University of Reading that likes to say that the Data Assimilation (DA) problem in Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) is larger than the size of the universe (estimated to be around 1080 … Continue reading →

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