Atmospheric Modeling Group

Realtime MM5 Project

Title:	Development of an Operational Version of the MM5 Model for Nevada and California
P.I.:	Darko Koracin
Sponsor:	Washoe County District Health Department

A real-time mesoscale forecasting system using the MM5 model has been developed for application to Nevada and California, centered in the Truckee Meadows (Reno). The model is running on two domains with horizontal resolutions of 18 km on the outer and 6 km on the inner model grid. The model uses current surface and upper-air data from the observational network and results from the large-scale/regional-scale Eta model to predict mesoscale weather phenomena for the next 48 hours. The operational version of the model is currently run on a multi-processor Origin 2000 supercomputer.

Here is an animated gif of the results of a particle model using output from the realtime MM5 as meteorological input:


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Last modified: Thu Jun 22 16:40:12 PDT 2000