New Meteorologic Consortium
2020-11-30 (IPMA)
On November 27, 2020, the creation of the new consortium “A Consortium for COnvection-scale modeling Research and Development”, ACCORD, was approved for the community development of numerical models of limited area at convective scale. The consortium started its activity immediately with the holding of the 1st Assembly where Portugal was represented by the Director of IPMA, Dr. Miguel Miranda.
The new consortium will count on cooperation between the meteorological services of the 26 countries in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin: Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Estonia, France, Finland, Holland, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Lithuania, Morocco, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Romania, Sweden, Tunisia and Turkey.
The creation of this consortium results from the culmination of a merging process, initiated in 2005, between the consortia ALADIN [1] (and its sub-consortium RC-LACE [3]) and HIRLAM [2], for the development of state-of-art atmospheric limited area numerical models, with application to operations. As a legacy, the new consortium counts with the numerical code and expertise of the canonical models developed by those, described scientifically in [4] and [5], and linked to the Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) of the European Center for Medium-range Weather Forecasts ( ECMWF) [6]. At the time of writing this article, the IPMA maintains in operation, for the Mainland and for the Archipelagos of Madeira and the Azores, a local version of the AROME model with 2.5 km of horizontal resolution.
[1] http://www.umr-cnrm.fr/aladin/
[2] http://hirlam.org/
[3] https://www.rclace.eu/
[4] https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/11/257/2018/
[5] https://journals.ametsoc.org/mwr/article/145/5/1919/104248/The-HARMONIE-AROME-Model-Configuration-in-the
[6] https://www.ecmwf.int/
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