Adding new ICON-D2 model
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Hi @ivo.
Have you considered adding the new high resolution weather model ICON-D2 for central Europe? It’s the replacement for the COSMO-D2 model.slightly bigger coverage then the COSMO, 2.1km grid, 1h steps, 27h, updated every 3h
See news here:
https://www.dwd.de/EN/specialusers/aviation/teaser/news/39_cosmo_icon_node.htmlData is here:
https://opendata.dwd.de/weather/nwp/Would love to see it on windy.com
Cheers.
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@justinlimbo seconded - it is the best short-term hires model around and I really recommend adopting it, it would be a major USP
I've been using COSMO-D2 for ground condition forecasts before flights for years and it has been the most spot-on of the whole lot
Unfortunately so far it's been available only via PC-met or the occasional off-beat weather website
NB for aviation folk: the DWD models sport much higher vertical resolution internally (65 levels) than just the standard pressure levels
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@mhaberler Thank you for suggestion, we will put it into consideration.
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@korina It turns out Kachelmann is on the trail already:
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@justinlimbo Model looks really good.
We will implement it
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@ivo 😇
Awesome! Can‘t wait! 👍 -
@ivo Are you planning to add any other global models after ICON, maybe Canadian or Great Britain
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@ivo Unified Model or GEM model
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@przemo1986 We of course plan to add more models in the future.
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@ivo Superb - very good move!
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@ivo if I may add a suggestion:
The recent ICON/ICON-xx come in several distribution forms, two of which are:
- standard pressure levels (1000hPa, 950/925 etc )
- "half height levels" (= 65 layers which seem to be geodaetic heights, not pressure levels)
for the vertically oriented (=aviation folk of various shapes and forms) the higher resolution would be useful - at least in the "VFR layers" (= below 5000m)
it comes at a storage + processing cost though
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@ivo
what sort of time frame are we talking? from the outside it‘s so hard to judge how much time and effort goes into implementing a new weather model. is it an advantage that you already have the ICON Global and ICON-EU? Or is it a complete new beast you have to tame?
would be cool, to get some insights into your work. cheers. -
Awesome!
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