Operational NWP Activities at the Finnish Meteorological Institute

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Operational NWP Activities at the Finnish
Meteorological Institute
Niko Sokka, Kalle Eerola, Simo Järvenoja and
Markku Kangas

• Continued running Hirlam reference system
  operationally

• Change to own computer equipment from June 2005
  (IBM gt SGI/Altix)
• FMI move to new premises in September 2005

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Techical Environment
TEMP, PILOT, SYNOP, SHIP, AIREP, DRIBU
OBS
Baltic SST/ice data 2 kB/d
archiving 14.5 GB/d , 13 MBt/s
European Centrefor Medium-Range Weather
Forecasts
boundaries 1.3 GB/d , 13 MBt/s
Boundaries Observations 1.4 GB/d 100 MBit/s
Forecast data Visualization 13.1 GB/d 100 MBit/s
monitoring
reporting
FMI / SGI Altix
June 2005
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Peak performance
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Meteorological implementation
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Road Weather Model
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Feb 6
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2400
1200
Dry snow
Partly icy
Wet snow
Dry snow
Partly icy
Wet snow
Dry snow
Dry snow
Partly icy
Partly icy
Wet snow
Wet snow
Damp
Damp
Damp
Damp
Icy
Frost
Wet
Icy
Frost
Wet
Icy
Icy
Frost
Frost
Wet
Wet
Dry
Dry
Dry
Dry