High Resolution Weather Forecasting
RWDI provides weather data to organizations and government agencies that need access
to high resolution weather data.
Need access to high resolution weather data?
RWDI has been performing meteorological assessments and high resolution numerical
weather predictions for a number of years in support of air quality and wind engineering
applications around the world. We have the ability to perform custom weather forecasting,
hind casting or down casting at high spatial and temporal resolutions for locations
throughout the world using our in-house supercomputing facilities and weather forecast
models (MM5 and WRF).
An example of a WRF 4km resolution weather map,
plotting temperature and mean sea level pressure over western Canada.
Some of our past projects include:
|
Company |
Project |
Resolution |
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Alberta Environment |
Used MM5 to generate a 5 year meteorological data set for regulatory applications. |
12 km |
|
Saudi Aramco |
Used MM5 to generate a 3 year meteorological data set |
4 km |
|
Masdar City |
Used MM5 to generate a 1 year meteorological data set |
1.33 km |
|
AGIP Oil Company |
Used WRF to generate 3 month data set over the Caspian Sea for CMAQ modelling |
4 km |
|
In-house |
Used WRF to generate 5-10 year data sets for the Middle East, China and India to
support Wind Engineering applications. |
12 km with 4 km sub-domains |
Need access to high resolution operational weather forecasts?
RWDI runs a high resolution weather forecast system using WRF at its data center
in Calgary. The forecast system currently provides a 48-hour forecast for Alberta
and British Columbia at 4km resolution and is updated every six hours, four times
a day. In addition, forecast data is available every 6 hours for a smaller domain
centered on Calgary at a 2km spatial resolution.
Who can benefit from this data?
- governments who need access to meteorological data sets for climate change and regulatory
modelling;
- companies with operational requirements that depend on high resolution weather forecasts;
- air quality consulting companies; and,
- architecture companies.
Call us today to learn how RWDI can assist in
providing high resolution weather data for your area.
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