Mesoscale model experience with UM at met.no

Mesoscale model experience with UM at met.no

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NWP collaboration in Europe

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Short version of UM history at met.no

• 2002: Met Office–met.no NWP collaboration• 2003: UM 3km, S-Norway grid, forced by Met

Office 20km and Hirlam 10km• 2004: UM 4km, Norway grid, forced by HL

10km• 2005: ”UM4XL”, Norway/Sweden grid• Nov2005: UM 1km, 3 small grids nested into

UM4XL

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How does it perform ?

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Temperature

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How is the UM model set up ?

• Climate and parameter files from Met Office ”ancil generation” software

• LBC’s from Hirlam 10km, interpolation with ”hl2um” ( a met.no mixture of subroutines from UM and Hirlam )

• Some surface fields from Hirlam …• Some fields from previous +12h

forecast …

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• 300 * 500 * 38 gridpoints, • 4km resolution, 100s timestep• Hourly postprocessing of surface fields, 3

hourly pressure levels, 6 hourly model levels

• Boundary fields written out every 20 minutes for +8h to +21h, for nesting of 3 UM 1km grids

• Runs on 280 CPUs, at 00UTC and 12UTC• 48h forecast in ~1h45min• SGI Origin 3800 ( to be replaced next

year )

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What does it look like ?

• Quasi operational runs• Different experiments• Temperature problem solved (last

week)

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The model chain at met.no

• The ”turbulence project” is used to describe the different models we now have available for forecasting at global to local ( airport ) scale.

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Why a turbulence project ?

”På grunn av variable og vanskelige vindforhold bestemte kapteinen seg for å avbryte landinga. Da kom det et kraftig vindkast, og flyet smalt i bakken.”

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• Orography and resolution ( ”Seven sisters” )

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LBCs (~50km) for Hirlam20 and Hirlam10 at 3 hour intervals ( usually 6 hours old )

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Hirlam10

• Starts from interpolated Hirlam20-analysis

• Boundaries ( frames ) from ECMWF• Writes ”model dumps” / ”history files”

every hour for nesting of Met Office Unified Model ( UM4 )

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Hirlam10 and UM4

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UM 4km with three UM 1km grids

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The ”lifetime” of LBCs in a small grid

•30min intervals

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UM1

• Starts for all airports as soon as UM4 has reached it’s +21 hour forecast

• UM1 starts at UM4 +8h forecast, spins up for one hour

• Writes full model dumps at +9, +12, +15, +18 and +21

• The turbulence model called ”Simra” is then run for each of these instances

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Operational cycles

• The model system as described is run twice a day at 00UTC and 12UTC

• Results are continously updated through the run, and can be studied as the forecast is produced

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UM1, Sandnessjøen

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Example of product, inflight cone

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Example of product, inflight turbulence in cross section

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Some examples of different treatment of precipitation in the different models

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”Precipitation shaddow”, Hirlam / UM

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Tromsø-area, Hirlam10 and UM4

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Structure of precipitation, HL20/10, UM4, radar

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Ad hoc setup of UM for the Barents sea

• Example showing a ”polar low”

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Polar low in UM 4km

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Hirlam10 og UM4

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UM4 +23h, mslp and wind

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Temperature problem ( solved last week )

• um505_thetamono_no.mf77 • A fix for the valley cooling problem.

It is an active area of investigation and we may come up with alternative/better solutions, but this will hopefully work in the short term.

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Comparing Hirlam and UM

• Hirlam has been set up on exactly the same ( horizontal ) grid as UM4XL

• Hirlam version 6.4.1+• H04 runs started in November on the

met.no Linux cluster• Some technical difficulties …• Computer resources (SGI) : UM = 3 *

HL

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Heavy precipitation and flooding at the western coast of Norway in November

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Hirlam 4km UM 4km

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Hirlam 4km, 12h accumulated precip

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UM 4km, 12h accumulated precip