Finescale Topography and the MC2 Dynamics Kernel

• Published in: Monthly weather review Vol. 133; no. 6; pp. 1463 - 1477
• Main Authors: Girard, Claude, Benoit, Robert, Desgagné, Michel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA American Meteorological Society 01.06.2005
• Subjects: Earth, ocean, space; Exact sciences and technology; External geophysics; Meteorology; Noise; Weather analysis and prediction; Alps; Europe, Alps Mts; Weather forecast; Transformation of coordinates; Europe; topography; digital simulation; Forecast model; Mesoscale; Discretization; Short range forecast; Orography; spatial resolution; Numerical forecast; Forcing; high resolution

The Canadian Mesoscale Compressible Community (MC2) model provided daily forecasts across the Alps at 3-km resolution during the Mesoscale Alpine Programme (MAP) field phase of 1999. Among the results of this endeavor, some have had an immediate impact on MC2 itself as it increasingly became evident...