Medium-range forecasts with
a non-hydrostatic global atmospheric model on a cubed sphere grid
Song-You Hong
Director, KIAPS
10:30 am 22 May in 2155
Abstract:
Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems (KIAPS), Seoul,
Korea, has embarked a national project in developing a new global
forecast system in 2011. The ultimate goal of this 9-year project is to
replace the current operational model at Korea Meteorological
Administration (KMA), which was adopted from the United Kingdom’s
Meteorological Office’s model. Since July 2015, the test version of the
KIAPS Integrated Model (KIM) system that consists of a spectral element
non-hydrostatic dynamical core on a cubed sphere and a revised physics
package that has been updated every three months has been running in a
real-time testbed, with a standard data assimilation of 3-D Var. In
2017, the updated KIM with the advanced 4-DEnvar at about 12-km has
been launched and its performance and operational deployment schedule
will be discussed.