NWP related activities Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute 2005

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NWP related activities_at_ Slovak
Hydrometeorological Institute2005
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ALADIN _at_ SHMI (1)
HPC IBM _at_server pSeries 690 Type 7040 Model
681 32 CPUs POWER 4 1.7 GHz 32 GB RAM Memory IBM
FAST T600 Storage Server EXP700 1.5TB AIX
5.2 NEW ARCHIVE HW IBM Total Storage 3584
Tape Library (24 TB) SW IBM Tivoli Storage
Manager one.shmu.sk
2882x2594 km domain size 320x288 points in
quadratic grid 2.19 33.99 SW 39.06 55.63
NE 9.0 km horizontal resolution 37 vertical
levels 400s time step 54h forecast length 4x/day
00/06/12/18 UTC coupled to ARPEGE 3h coupling
frequency dynamic adaptation mode AL28T3_czphys
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ALADIN _at_ SHMI (2)

• OPERATIONAL and RD highlights
• 01/07/2004 full operational status
• 01/01/2005 24/7 human monitoring
• 12/01/2005 switch to 54h integration
• 31/03/2005 AL28T3_czphys operational
• 25/07/2005 06UTC run introduced
• 21/09/2005 wind dynamical adaptation
  operational
• 29/09/2005 18UTC run introduced
• Feasibility study of MOS technique
• Case study of 19/11/2004 severe windstorm
• 6-10/06/2005 15th ALADIN workshop (Bratislava)