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Meteorology
The research in the field of meteorology covers a range of topics including:

- development of short-range weather forecasts
  (up to 48 hours)
- nowcasting (up to 12 hours)
- basic physical processes in the climate system
- remote sensing (satellite and RADAR)
- measurements of radiation and total ozone
- modelling of tracer transport, deposition and
  atmospheric chemistry

There is a strong emphasis on modelling, the core model being the numerical weather prediction model HIRLAM. Much of the other modelling work is coupled to HIRLAM. Important models and analysis systems include MESAN, the meso-scale meteorological analysis system, SCANDIA, the cloud classification model using satellite data, RAVE, the radar visualisation environment, and MATCH, the regional tracer transport and chemistry model. Further information can be found under the list of current activities.

 

Current activities

  • Solar radiation, stratospheric ozone
    and ultraviolet radiation

  • Mesan - an Operational Mesoscale Analysis System

  • MATCH - Atmospheric tracer transport, chemistry and deposition

  • HIRLAM - High Resolution Limited Area Model

  • Verification

  • Nowcasting
 


Last updated 1998-08-31

Further information

Contact: Stefan Gollvik, Joakim Langner
E-mail: stefan.gollvik@smhi.se
joakim.langner@smhi.se
Fax: +46 (0)11 495 80 01
Phone: +46 (0)11 495 80 00

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