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Numerical Modelling Laboratory
National Meteorological Administration
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The main activity of the Numerical Modeling Laboratory consists in the operational integration of three limited area numerical weather prediction models: ALADIN / ALARO, COSMO and ICON, developed within two international numerical modeling consortia (ALADIN and COSMO) in which Romania is a member since 1991, respectively 2007. Numerical weather prediction is based on determining the future state of the atmosphere starting from a given state, by numerical integration of the system of equations ...
Rodica Claudia
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claudia.dumitrache@meteoromania.ro
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Mihaela CAIAN
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Alexandra CRACIUN
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Dan Valentin DOBROVOLSCHI
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Rodica Claudia DUMITRACHE
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Amalia IRIZA-BURCA
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Bogdan Alexandru MACO
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Mihaela Silvana NEACSU
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Elena Mirela PIETRISI
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Doina Simona TASCU
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Earth, Ocean, Marine, Freshwater, and Atmosphere Data Centres
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Single sited RI
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Active RI
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Research Services
ALADIN group - Research and development activity
SERVICE DESCRIPTION:
The main activity of the ALADIN group is the integration of the ALARO limited area numerical weather predictino model developed in the ALADIN (Aire Limitée Adaptation Dynamique Développement International) and RC-LACE (Regional Cooperation for Limited Areamodeling in Central Europe) international consortia. The National Meteorological Administration has been part of the ALADIN consortium since 1991, Romania being one of the first consortium countries to integrate the model in operational mode on a local supercomputer. Since 2007, NMA has become a member of the RC-LACE consortium, while during 2020, the procedures to form the new ACCORD (A Consortium for Co-convection-scale modeling Research and Development) consortium were completed. ACCORD was formed through the merger of three of the leading numerical weather modeling consortia in Europe: ALADIN, LACE and HIRLAM (HighResolution Limited Area Model). The activity of the ACCORD consortium is closely related to the activities of the RC-LACE consortium and is focused on the four main directions: physics, dynamics, data assimilation and forecast validation.
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Doina Simona TASCU
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Dan Valentin DOBROVOLSCHI
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Alexandra CRACIUN
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Elena Mirela PIETRISI
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COSMO group - Research and development activity
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Within the COSMO group (Consortium for Small Scale Modeling), the COSMO and ICON (Icosahedral Nonhydrostatic) numerical weather prediction models are integrated. The COSMO model is limited area numerical weather prediction model, based on the complete set of non-hydrostatic, compressible equations, in an advective form, developed within the homonymous consortium. The National Meteorological Administration has been part of the COSMO consortium since 2006, while the model has been integrated operationally since 2005. As a member of the consortium, the National Meteorological Administration has the obligation to participate in the research activities and projects dedicated to the continuous development of the model. Starting with 2015, the numerical weather prediction model ICON (ICOsahedralNonhydrostatic general circulation model) replaced the global hydrostatic model GME (GlobalModel). ICON can be integrated both as a global model and as a limited area model, aiming to replace, over time, the regional COSMO model. Research activities: - "Testbed for the Evaluation of COSMO Model Versions", a special research project at the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), was implemented in 2018-2020 and coordinated by Dr. Amalia Iriza-Burca (in collaboration with the COSMO consortium). - Priority project "CARMA - Common Area with Rfdbk / MEC Application", was carried out between 2018-2021 and coordinated by Dr. Amalia Iriza-Burca (project within the COSMO consortium). - The priority project "C2I - COSMO transition to ICON-LAM", carried out between 2018-2022 within the COSMO consortium. - Since 2014, NMA is permanently part of the "WG6-SPRT Working Group6's support activities" Priority Project, under the auspices of the COSMO consortium.
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Rodica Claudia DUMITRACHE
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Monthly and Seasonal Forecast Group
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The research activity of the Monthly and Seasonal Forecast Group is focused on: - prediction of climate extremes in Romania: This research conducted by CPLS was dedicated to demonstrating the added value of very high-resolution climate modeling (3 km) in: representing the occurring mechanism of extreme precipitation in the western region of Romania; the conditions necessary to configure the model to improve the predictability of extreme precipitation events by means of the time / location / amplitude; the large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns associated to the occurrence of these extremes; developing a useful prognostic index implemented in the S2S prediction of these extreme phenomena; - analysis of the causes of observed and projected climate variability over Romania (e.g. temperature and precipitation anomalies, SPEI); the accelerated SPEI variability of the past two decades was investigated (causes, trends, amplitude of change); - evaluation of changes in the atmosphere-land-sea interface processes at a sub-regional scale - the analysis employs very high-resolution climate scenarios (5 km) for the period 2020-2040 and informs about the projected change in dynamics of coastal breeze processes, with a potential impact on the infrastructure and human marine/coastal activities - Black Sea.
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Climate Services - PREPCLIM ("Interactive system for crop ideotype identification under climate change")
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A new Agro-Climate Service has been developed and implemented during the project PREPCLIM PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2019-5302), service accessible through two Platforms. The Platform 1: http://climatologis.shinyapps.io/PrepClim provides information and data on: climate indicators, agro-climate indicators and agro-climate extremes projected for the time-horizon 2050 under climate scenarios RCP4.5 and RCP8.5, for the South of Romania region, down to district-UATs level. The Platform 2: https://193.26.129.82 adds information on decades (10 days) climatology projections useful for agricultural decisions for the same time-horison 2050. The Platform 2 https://193.26.129.82 contains a new feature “USER-BOX” that allows an interactive service with the user for running coupled models and identifying the culture ideotype for a time-slice and region requested by the user and for culture parameters and management options requested by the user, under climate change scenarios.
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Technological Services
Aladin Group - Operational Activity
SERVICE DESCRIPTION:
During 2020, two important steps were taken for the operational activity: • compilation and installation of the new version of the ALARO model, cy43 • developing a new architecture of the operational software component that came as a necessity in the process of migration and adaptation of the operational structure to a new computational platform (building a modular system that can be easily ported to various types of infrastructures). The operational version of the limited-area ALARO model is based on the 43t2 cycle of the model and is integrated at 6.5 km horizontal resolution (240x240 grid points) with 60 vertical levels and 240-seconds time step, on an integration domain covering the entire Romanian territory. The computation of physical and dynamic trends is done using semi-implicit, semi-Lagrangian integration schemes, using initial and lateral boundary conditions from the ARPEGE (Action de Recherche Petite Echelle / Grande Echelle) global model, with a 3 hour frequency. The ALARO model is integrated 4 time per day: 00 UTC (78 hours anticipation), 06 UTC (54 hours anticipation), 12 UTC (66 hours anticipation) and 18 UTC (54 hours anticipation). ALARO products are processed and disseminated daily to meteorologists and beneficiaries in various domains, while the resulting graphical products are available on the dedicated intranet page.
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Doina Simona TASCU
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Dan Valentin DOBROVOLSCHI
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Cosmo Group - Operational Activity
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The COSMO numerical model is integrated 4 times a day, at two horizontal resolutions: 7 km and 2.8 km, on two domains that completely cover the Romanian territory. Currently, the operational activity uses version 5.06 of the COSMO model for both spatial integration resolutions. The operational activity of the COSMO group also includes the daily integration (at 00 UTC) of the operational forecasting system for the diffusion and transport of pollutants at national and local scale COSMO-INPUFF. The system is based on the INPUFF (Integrated PUFF) Gaussian model for the dispersion of radioactive pollutants, which simulates the dispersion of substances emitted by continuous, intermittent or instantaneous point sources in a variable wind field. The meteorological information regarding the wind field used as input data in the INPUFF model comes from the outputs of the COSMO limited area numerical weather prediction integrated at 7 km horizontal resolution.
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Rodica Claudia DUMITRACHE
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AMASC Group- Operational Activity
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For the validation of the operational forecast activities, data are automatically collected daily for the computation of statistical scores, with the results available on the internal dedicated web page for the following products: • forecasts prepared by meteorologists for 12, 24, 48, 72 hours anticipation (VERA and VERCENTRE procedures) - scores are represented daily, monthly, seasonally and multi-annually. The average monthly score is also computed. • forecasts developed for the media for 42 cities, with anticipations of 12, 24, 48, 72 hours (VERMEDIA procedure) • forecasts prepared by meteorologists compared to forecasts derived from MOS (VERCOMPAR procedure) The graphs are updated on the web page dedicated to statistical verification and adaptation. Operational activity of processing and validation of MOS (Model Output Statistics): • MOS_ECMWF - developed using the output of the ECMWF numerical model • MOS_ARPEGE - developed based on the output of the ARPEGE numerical model • MOS_ALARO - developed using the output of the ALARO numerical model The parameters forecasted by the statistical models are validated daily in the VERCOMPAR application and compared to the forecast made by the meteorologists. Procedures have been developed and are carried out for monthly verification. The results obtained are available on the dedicated intranet web page. The operational activity of evaluating the forecasts of the numerical models is performed using the unique VERMOD system. This system allows measuring the performance of the ECMWF, ARPEGE, ALARO and COSMO models for Romanian territory. A summary of VERMOD scores is available monthly and yearly. The system also has a daily component that enables the computation of classical scores such as bias and root mean square error, for certain anticipations, along with instant error maps.
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Monthly and Seasonal Forecast Group - Operational Activity
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Products developed and implemented operationally are dedicated to support: • Monthly forecast: 1) software to forecast the probable cyclonic trajectories for a period of 30 days for Europe. The software works operatively, based on MSLP predicted by the SYS5-ECMWF and JMA models. In the future, the number of members will be extended (depending on the availability of computing resources). These results, including graphical visualization, are operative. 2) the SPEI drought index forecast was developed and implemented operationally. The forecast is made based on two sets of models: SYS5-ECMWF, JMA and Rocada data, using the ensemble mean computed from 51 members from SYS5 and 4 members from JMA. These results, including graphical visualization, are operational. 3) the weekly estimates from ECMWF were re-calibrated during 2020, introducing the sliding climatology of the last 20 years and scaling of the anomaly by a factor depending on the variability of the model and that observed in each grid point, for each sliding week, with results integrated in the operational activity. • Seasonal forecasts: 1) SPEI drought index forecast - extended to 6 months. The forecast is made based on the combined data from the JMA ensemble (4 members - mean of 4 sub-ensembles with 13 members each) / Rocada, with results integrated in the operational activity. 2) forecast of cyclonic trajectories for 6 months with 2 models: SYS5-ECMWF (Control) and JMA 4 members (mean of sub-ensembles with 13 members each).
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Research Equipment
High Performance Computer
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- 5 Lenovo ThinkSystem Modular Enclosure chassis, each populated with 4 Lenovo ThinkSystem SD530 computing nodes with two Intel Xeon Gold 6130 (16-core) processors, reaching a total of 640 cores. The computing nodes have 10 GbE connectivity and lnfiniband FDR - 2 login nodes Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 with Intel Xeon Silver 4110 CPU (8-core) and GbE, 10 GbE and FC 16 Gbps connectivity for connection to the storage system - Communications infrastructure: 2 GbE Lenovo RackSwitch G8052 switches, 2 10-GbE Lenovo ThinkSystem NE1032 switches, 2 lnfiniband FDR Mellanox SX6036 switches, 2 IBM SAN24B-5 SAN switches - Dell EMC Unity 300 storage system equipped with 12 disks of 6TB , 48 GB cache, 4 x 16 Gbps FC and 4 x 10 GbE connectivity and offering both file and block services - Back-up solution consisting of IBM TS4300 tape library storage equipment, equipped with two LT08 drives with FC connectivity and IBM Spectrum Protect Suite Entry back-up software licensed for 30 TB (written capacity) - Rack that will accommodate all equipment, Lenovo 42U 1200mm Deep Static Rack, 4PDUs with seven C13 sockets each, 18.5"console and KVM switch that allows the connection of all servers offered - 2 UPS 11,000 VA - Job Management Software Solution - Lenovo Intelligent Computing Orchestration (LiCO)
PRODUCER:
LENOVO
PRODUCTION YEAR:
2019
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Phone:
+4-021-3183240
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Sos.Bucuresti- Ploiesti
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Bucharest
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Bucuresti - Sector 1
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