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Title: | Aviation model : a fine-scale numerical weather prediction system for aviation applications at the Hong Kong international airport | Authors: | Wong, WK Lau CS Chan, PW |
Issue Date: | 2013 | Source: | Advances in meteorology, 2013, v. 2013, 532475, p. 1-11 | Abstract: | The Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) is planning to implement a fine-resolution Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) model for supporting the aviation weather applications at the Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA). This new NWP model system, called Aviation Model (AVM), is configured at a horizontal grid spacing of 600 m and 200 m. It is based on the WRF-ARW (Advance Research WRF) model that can have sufficient computation efficiency in order to produce hourly updated forecasts up to 9 hours ahead on a future high performance computer system with theoretical peak performance of around 10 TFLOPS. AVM will be nested inside the operational mesoscale NWP model of HKO with horizontal resolution of 2 km. In this paper, initial numerical experiment results in forecast of windshear events due to seabreeze and terrain effect are discussed. The simulation of sea-breeze-related windshear is quite successful, and the headwind change observed from flight data could be reproduced in the model forecast. Some impacts of physical processes on generating the fine-scale wind circulation and development of significant convection are illustrated. The paper also discusses the limitations in the current model setup and proposes methods for the future development of AVM. | Publisher: | Hindawi Publishing Corporation | Journal: | Advances in meteorology | ISSN: | 1687-9309 | EISSN: | 1687-9317 | DOI: | 10.1155/2013/532475 | Rights: | Copyright © 2013 Wai-KinWong et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The following publication Wong, W. -., Lau, C. -., & Chan, P. -. (2013). Aviation model: A fine-scale numerical weather prediction system for aviation applications at the Hong Kong international airport. Advances in Meteorology, 2013, 532475, 1-11 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/532475 |
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