Dear METRo developers team members, I have taken the liberty to contact you since the laboratory I work at as a PhD candidate (Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics-Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,Greece) is extremelly interested in developing a frost-forecasting model. My name is Theodore M. Giannaros and I have just started my PhD studies, which focus on atmospheric modeling and data assimilation.
Throughout the last few weeks, I have been reading through all available documentation on frost-forecasting techniques, especially focusing on the METRo project. I am not going to go further in any technical details, regarding the studying I carried out, but I would like to share with you some ideas about the future of METRo. I currently work on MM5 and WRF NWP models and thus I believe that it would be great if we could make some modifications in the METRo source code in order to be possible to have frost forecasts, through the operational use of the afore mentioned NWP models. I already know that there are some research teams that have managed to use MM5 or WRF output data in order to forecast frost formation on roads, however I firmly believe that the level of simulation of physical processes in METRo is purely high, thus it would be much more usefull to adapt the existing code to fit in with MM5 and/or WRF. To conclude, I would politely like to ask you if there is a possibility of accepting our Laboratory in the METRo developers team, in the framework of altering the METRo code in order to get advantage of MM5 and/or WRF meteorological forecasts and thus making METRo a very portable application. It would be my great pleasure to give you more information and discuss on this issue, should you feel that such a project will boost frost-forecasting research. I would like to thank you in advance for your prompt reply. Yours faithfully, Theodore M. Giannaros PhD Candidate Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics Aristotle University of Thessaloniki GREECE email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +30 2310 998088 _______________________________________________ METRo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/metro-developers
