Keynote: Richard Jones (Met Office, UK)
K-Scale: A global to regional model hierarchy for assessing the costs and benefits of high-resolution global simulations
When: 09:15 - 09:45
Abstract
The K-Scale model hierarchy includes global, regional and pan-tropical domains to investigate the relative importance of resolution, science configuration and domain size. It enables us to explore the question of whether, where, and how explicit convection global (and pan-tropical) simulations provide additional forecast information compared with our current approach to high-resolution forecasting – limited area regional models. We start to think about the costs and benefits of large-domain explicit convection forecasts focussing on two 40-day periods, one initialised in August 2016 and another in January 2020 – the DYAMOND summer and winter periods. We also look ahead to future plans for high-resolution operational global forecasts at the UK Met Office.
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