Theodoros Giannaros wrote: > 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 > > >
Hi Theodore, I see no problem in trying the WRF and/or the MM5 code with METRo. Both models are in the public domain so part of their code could be incorporated in METRo and released in future versions. The public domain declaration of each model can be find here: *WRF :: http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/public.html *MM5 :: "Penn State and UCAR make no proprietary claims, either statutory or otherwise, to this version and release of MM5 and consider MM5 to be in the public domain for use by any person or entity for any purpose without any fee or charge." From the README file provided with the source code (ftp://ftp.ucar.edu/mesouser/MM5V3/MM5.TAR.gz) That is for the legal mater. On the technical side, the physical model of METRo is coded in fortran, as well as most part of MM5 and WRF for what I have read. I think this will facilitate the incorporation of the code into METRo for testing purpose. We have decided to keep the fortran part of METRo for this reason. You can play and test METRo as you want and we will provide the best support we can to assist you. If you think it would be helpful for our collaboration to provide more information, please do so. If you are successful in your experiments and are able to demonstrate the benefits of the changes, we will incorporate them with pleasure in METRo. Best regards, -- Miguel Tremblay Physicien - Physicist Centre météorologique canadien - Canadian meteorological centre (CMC) Environnement Canada - Environment Canada http://www.ec.gc.ca/ 2121 Trans-Canada N. Suite 228 Téléphone/Phone: 514-421-4729 Dorval, Québec Fax: 514-421-4679 CANADA H9P 1J3 courriel/email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ METRo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/metro-developers
