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Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology Meteo. Swiss

Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology Meteo. Swiss Status of Meteo. Swiss COSMO GM 2008 18 September 2008

Strategy of Meteo. Swiss Domain weather • 3 forecasting centers in Zurich, Geneva &

Strategy of Meteo. Swiss Domain weather • 3 forecasting centers in Zurich, Geneva & Locarno covering different climatic and linguistic regions • Forecasts for the aviation in Zurich & Geneva Plans of Meteo. Swiss | COSMO GM philippe. steiner@meteoswiss. ch 2

Strategy of Meteo. Swiss Domain weather • 3 forecasting centers in Zurich, Geneva &

Strategy of Meteo. Swiss Domain weather • 3 forecasting centers in Zurich, Geneva & Locarno covering different climatic and linguistic regions • Forecasts for the aviation in Zurich & Geneva • Common forecast matrix covering 10 days (since 2. 9. 08) • initialized with COSMO-7, COSMO-LEPS, IFS • one central guidance (view of the synoptic evolution) • local adaptations in the matrix made by regional centers • used to generate automatically most products (ongoing) • base to compute the global score MOVI • Products for official duty (including official warnings) as well as customer specific ones (commercial) • Model products derived directly to customers Plans of Meteo. Swiss | COSMO GM philippe. steiner@meteoswiss. ch 3

Main achievements last COSMO year • Introduction of the new multilayer soil model (9.

Main achievements last COSMO year • Introduction of the new multilayer soil model (9. 07) • Large success of project MAP D-PHASE • Operational period 6. 07 -11. 07 • Involvement of 26 end users • Preoperational coupling with 4 hydrological models • Platform still running (national platform in development) • COSMO-7 at 6. 6 km with Runge-Kutta & new μ-physic (11. 07) • Operationalisation of COSMO-2 (2. 08) • Start of deliveries in project CN Met (nuclear power plants) • Activation of Latent Heat Nudging (4. 08) • Replacement of Front-end used for pre- & post-processing as well as for R&D (operations: 1. 08, rest 6. 08) Plans of Meteo. Swiss | COSMO GM philippe. steiner@meteoswiss. ch 4

Status of operational suite COSMO-7 : 6. 6 km, 393 x 338 x 60

Status of operational suite COSMO-7 : 6. 6 km, 393 x 338 x 60 GP, 2 x 72 h fcst /day COSMO-2 : COSMO-2 2. 2 km, 520 x 350 x 60 GP, 8 x 24 h fcst /day own assimilation cycle, cut-off 45 min t. c. products delivered in <35 min Production at CSCS, Manno Main machine: Cray XT 4, 447 dual cores Fall-back: Cray XT 3, 1668 single cores Service nodes used for front-end functions Separate servers for DB Plans of Meteo. Swiss | COSMO GM philippe. steiner@meteoswiss. ch 5

Planned main activities next COSMO year • Consolidation of the COSMO chain • Soil,

Planned main activities next COSMO year • Consolidation of the COSMO chain • Soil, snow (analysis), vertical levels (thin levels, SLEVE 2) • Nudging of more observations • Investigation of poor forecasts (esp. convection) • More comprehensive information on model performance • in close cooperation with forecasters • Extend the existing post-processing methods • Combined products COSMO-2, -7 and -LEPS • Use COSMO-ART for pollen forecasts (chemistry @ partner) • Development of an on-demand mode (project CN Met) • 6 h forecasts of COSMO-2 each hour (max twice/year) Plans of Meteo. Swiss | COSMO GM philippe. steiner@meteoswiss. ch 6

Contributions to COSMO next COSMO year • SPM function and coordination WG 4 •

Contributions to COSMO next COSMO year • SPM function and coordination WG 4 • Priority projects • COLOBOC: PL, soil, snow (analysis), contribution to the external parameters, urban model • KENDA: „non-Gaussianity“, best member selection with conventional measurements (SIR-Filter) • UTCS: 1 -equation model: component testing & comparison • CONSENS: tuned calibration algorithm for COSMO-LEPS • VERSUS 2: requirements, install & test • Test of new COSMO versions • Possible contribution to code maintenance (post-processing) • Nudging of further observations: near surface parameters, ZTD, humidity profiles (GPS tomography) Plans of Meteo. Swiss | COSMO GM philippe. steiner@meteoswiss. ch 7