Seminars & Events

Mathematics and Computer Science Division
"Global NWP Model Development at KIAPS"

DATE: January 11, 2012 to January 11, 2012
TIME: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
SPEAKER: Dr. In-Sun Song, Systems Development Team Lead, Korean Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems
LOCATION: Bldg. 240, TCS Room 1416, Argonne National Laboratory
HOST: Robert Jacob

Description:
Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) launched a 9-year project in 2011 to develop Korea’s own global NWP system with the total funding of about 100 million US dollars. To lead the effort, Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems (KIAPS) was established by KMA as a non-profit foundation. As implied by the name of the institute, the main goal of the project is to develop a global operational NWP system and to replace the current KMA NWP system (UK Met Office Unified Model system) with Korea’s own system. The project is planned to be carried out in three stages. The first stage (2011-2013) is a period to set up the
institute, to recruit researchers, to make plans for research and development, and to design the basic structure and explore/develop NWP-related basic technologies. The second stage (2014-2016) aims at developing the modules for dynamical core, physical parameterizations, and data assimilation systems as well as the modeling system framework and couplers to connect the core modules in a systematic and efficient way, and eventually building a prototype NWP system. At the third stage (2017-2019), the prototype NWP system will be evaluated, refined, and tuned for operational use at KMA as well as developing post-processing systems. At seminar, the organization of KIAPS and 9-year roadmap are briefly introduced, action plans for the development of NWP system are presented.

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