NWP at Italian Met Service: current developments
Massimo Bonavita, Lucio Torrisi, Fabrizio Ciciulla, Antonio Vocino
Past year activities
• Implementation of observation pre-processing and quality control modules
• Development of 3D-PSAS objective analysis algorithm (ongoing)
• Introduction of asynoptic obs: SATOB, Amdar, Wind Profilers, Quickscat winds
• Implementation of LM at ECMWF, with deterministic postprocessing modules (Automatic Weather Interpretation – AWI)
Current activities
• Increase of effective resolution of regional model to ~30Km grid spacing
• Development of 3D-PSAS objective analysis algorithm and porting to IBM platform at ECMWF
• Introduction of ATOVS observations available through the EARS project
• Neural network postprocessing of LM fields