Laboratory Course in Numerical Meteorology

DIVSION FOR ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND GEOPHYSICS
METEOROLOGY

Laboratory course in numerical meteorology (5 op)

General

Laboratory courses in numerical meteorology (NumLab) aim to familiarize students with some new and actual topic associated with numerical meteorology or its applications. At the same time, the courses act to introduce scientific working methods, and to give practice in writing of research reports and in team work.

NumLab courses have no final exam. The acceptance of the students is based on active participation in the course meetings and on the final report written from the course projects.

Only students who have got the course Numerical Meteorology I accepted by the 15th of January 2009 will be allowed to enter the NumLab course. Exceptions will be addressed on a case-by-case basis, depending on seat availability.

Because of practical limitations (seat availability, size of groups), the number of students will be restricted to about 20. Priority will be given to those attending their first NumLab course.

The topic of Numlab2009 is the SURFEX model (SURFace EXternalisee, externalized surface), which has been developed in Meteo France for representation of the surface processes in NWP models. Presently SURFEX is developed and used by the international ALADIN and HIRLAM programmes. It is coupled to the AROME and ALADIN models, also available within the HARMONIE framework. In Numlab we will use a special stand-alone version of SURFEX.

Responsible teacher:
Jouni Räisänen, tel. 191 50872, Physicum C406, email etunimi.sukunimi@helsinki.fi

With help from:
Laura Rontu, FMI, email etunimi.sukunimi@fmi.fi
Several others from FMI.

SURFEX contact person
Patrick LeMoigne, Meteo France

Common course meetings: Friday 14-16, Dynamicum 1D23c (Kangastus)
First meeting: 16 January 2009.

Lecture notes (updated during the course)

An overview presentation of the course 24.4.2009

Deadline for the first draft of the course reports: 30 April 2009

Please use this template for preparing your report in Ms Word.

Final seminar 7 May 2009 (mostly in Finnish)

Final report

NumLab poster at HIRLAM All-staff Meeting 2009

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