Codina, Bernat (Departament d'Astronomia i Meteorologia. Universitat de Barcelona)
Sairouni, Abdelmalik (same affiliation)
Bech, Joan (same affiliation)
Reda±o, Angel (same affiliation)
The main target of the project Meteo'96, supported by the Catalan Foundation for the Research and Clabsa, the metropolitan sewage company of Barcelona, was to run operationally a nested mesoscale numerical model and evaluate its performance. The simulations were done from June 1996 until March 1997 using the MASS model initialized dayly with 00 UTC data, covered a large portion of SW Europe and the nested area was the NE part of the Iberian Peninsula. This paper shows preliminary results of a systematic comparison between 24 hour forecasts of several magnitudes (temperature, geopotential height and wind) and the model analysis in order to quantify the effect of different physical parameterizations and numerical methods used by the model.
Moreover, we present an analysis of the operational aspects of the project (initial data availability and transmission, automatization of the start up of the simulations, graphic output and public dissemination of the forecasts through an Internet web server).