Next Generation Global Models
ESRL’s Flow-following finite-volume Icosahedral Model (FIM), a global model used to predict superstorm Sandy’s track and intensity at landfall.
The next-generation global weather models that run in a real-time resolutions even higher than 10km.
Objectives
To address the severe weather needs of the nation and the world by developing the best possible one to two-week forecasts from advanced global models
Customer/beneficiary
National Weather Service (NWS)
Milestones and deliverables
Complete coupled atmospheric ocean-chem FIM-HYCOM chem model with some retrospective runs completed to consider for initial tests for National Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME) seasonal forecasts.
Key performance measures
Annual number of retrospective multi-week experiments of the atmospheric Flow-following finite volume Icosahedral Model (FIM).
R&D maturity level
TRL4
