COSMO - ROmania

Liliana VELEA

National Meteorological Administration, Bucharest, Romania

Outline

NMA Romania

COSMO-RO Group

Current state of work

Romania involvement within

COSMO

Future plans

Starting date: October 2004 First results: December 2004

COSMO-RO Group

Dr. I. V. PESCARU – head of Research Division

Liliana VELEA – PhD student (Physics)

Rodica DUMITRACHE – PhD student (Physics)

C. Barbu – PhD student (Mathematics)

NMA Romania

Current state of work at NMA

NMA Romania

LM used in pre - operational regimeComparative evaluation of HRM and LM

Study casesExperiments on precipitation scheme

Romania’s involvement within COSMO

NMA Romania

QUANTIFY (EU FP6 Integrated Project: Quantifying the

Climate Impact of Global and European Transport Systems)- 35 participants and 4 associated members from 16 European

countries and the U.S.A - to quantify the climate impact of global and European transport

systems for the present situation and for several scenarios of future development

- focused field measurements, exploitation of existing data, a range of numerical models, and new policy-relevant metrics of climate change

New COST project: AQFIS (Towards a Network of European Information Systems on Chemical Weather Assessment and Forecasting )

- to set up a forum for benchmarking, harmonising and developing approaches and practices for air quality forecasting network and (near) real-time information systems in Europe

Romania’s involvement within COSMO

NMA Romania

Infrastructure:- Linux Cluster 28 processors, Intel

Xeon 2.66 GHz - 6 PCs, Pentium 4, 3.2 MHz- 1 Linux Server, 2 processors

+ New computational mainframe (INTEROPERATE)COSMO-RO group

enlargement

Future plans

NMA Romania

Local LM in operational regime Use of new visualization system Implementation of data assimilation procedure

Within COSMOParticipation in WG3 activity

INVITATION

NMA Romania

Next COSMO General Meeting (2006)

to be held in ROMANIA