Add AROME-MEPS for Scandinavia + Finland & Baltic states?
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Hi,
I know there are countless people in Scandinavia planning their outdoor adventures with Windy. Unfortunately, neighter the global ECMWF model or ICON-EU provides sufficient resolution to accurately represent mountainous terrain. Couldn't you please include AROME MEPS on the Scandinavian domain which has ca 2.5 km resolution? I'm sure also people in Finland and the Baltic states would be happy for some added resolution of the short term forecasts.
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@matollin Hi, thank you for the tip for implementation. We are not planning to implement this model in upcoming months.
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@Suty But are you willing to consider it?
A lot of people in Nordic countries would like to see a higher resolution model at Windy.com. ECMWF is not accurate enough with 9 km resolution, in Norway we have very varied topography and the Norwegian meteorological institute provides local forecasts based on MEPS ensemble model with 2,5 km spatial resolution and with post processing based on measurement & radar and with updates every hour we get it down to 1 km resolution.
The data sources you need to implement this model (both 2,5 km and 1 km resolutions) are available here: https://thredds.met.no/thredds/metno.html
With this data being open and free there is no reason not to do it.
Also see this thread for more information:
https://community.windy.com/topic/15411/data-from-scandinavian-metcoop-ensemble-prediction-system-and-arome-arctic/9
