dphase_lami7: Limited Area Model Italy forecasts (COSMO model, 7 km) run by ARPA-SIM for the MAP D-PHASE project

lami7 stands for ‘Limited Area Model Italy’ which is the Italian implementation of COSMO Model, run with a 7 km grid interval. Cosmo model in lami7 suite is run operationally twice a day with a 7 km grid interval; it is initialised at 00 and 12 UTC with an own continuous assimilation cycle based on the nudging technique; the boundary conditions are provided by ECMWF IFS model; the integration domain ranges approximately from 0 deg E to 23 deg E and from 33 deg N to 52 deg N and the integration time range is 72 hours. The model is run at Cineca computing centre (http://www.cineca.it) on an IBM Power5 platform and in backup at ARPA-SIM (http://www.arpa.emr.it/sim/) on a Intel X86-64 Linux Cluster. Grid description: If given, the grid increments contained in the grib file have to be ignored since the precision for those parameters in GRIB1 format is not enough to represent the true value. DDOM: xfirst: —5.0 yfirst: —15.5 xsise: 186.0 ysise: 136.0 xinc: 0.0625 yinc: 0.0625 xnpole: 32.5 ynpole: —170.0