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      stitch Meteorologist | Premium last edited by

      Hi Windy developers,

      this request applies to forecasting in mountainous areas but can also have application to general elevated areas.

      It is a common issue with all NWP output with regards to any displayed model fields in regions of high elevation variability. And is not isolated to this Windy product.

      I have seen erroneous surface field output (say surface temperature/winds etc) for point locations in mountainous areas and in practice I have identified say the temperature at an elevation higher than the chosen point and then used adiabatic warming to make the correction for the surface temperature.

      To get a model perspective of the temperature it is forecasting at a grid point in highly variable terrain, could the Windy developers include as an additional layer the "model surface elevation field (map) - just the static image.

      This would provide (for me at least) the height (model averaged) of that grid (for EC 9kmx9km) of interest and so I can then apply whatever correction is required to the forecast weather parameter (temperature/dew point) within that grid area.

      Hopefully this request can be easily accommodated.
      Regards....

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        idefix37 Sailor Moderator @stitch last edited by idefix37

        @stitch
        That would be interesting to have a model altitude map, but more useful would be to show the model altitude on Meteogram for the chosen location, for each selected model.

        https://community.windy.com/topic/7929/model-altitude

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