Highly Resolved Numerical Models in Regional Weather Forecasting
A special issue of Meteorology (ISSN 2674-0494).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 November 2025 | Viewed by 67
Special Issue Editors
Interests: NWP; soil–atmosphere coupling; urban climate; model calibration; machine learning; icing in the aviation environment; multiphysics
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Interests: air–sea interactions; extreme atmospheric and marine events; coupled atmosphere–ocean-wave numerical models; meteorology; oceanography
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Interests: regional climate modeling; climate changes; numerical weather prediction models; extreme events
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models' accuracies depends significantly on grid resolution. High-resolution models are essential for properly capturing interactions between scales of different sizes. However, demonstrating the consistency property of a complex numerical system such as an NWP remains challenging, and not only because of the high computational power demand; key areas in which further advancements are required include, among others, the tuning of three-dimensional turbulence models such as Large Eddy Simulations (LES), the accurate modeling of exchange energy between soil and atmosphere in urban and rural areas, and complex orography.
This Special Issue invites scientific contributions focused on refining weather simulations, at a sub-kilometer scale, through LES turbulence models, particularly in their ability to capture local convective phenomena in urban environments and complex terrains. Studies that explore land–soil–atmosphere interactions and atmosphere–ocean interaction in this context are of special interest.
Validations of model outputs with observed data are particularly encouraged, especially those that aid in assessing the Planetary Boundary Layer or evapotranspiration processes, such as Eddy Covariance Towers. Additionally, studies that compare high-resolution model outputs against observational networks capable of resolving fine-scale phenomena are highly valued. Contributions demonstrating how these efforts can enhance forecasts of orographic winds, wind gusts, extreme rainfall events, urban temperature, urban heat island effects, and urban wind patterns are especially welcomed.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Atmosphere.
Dr. Davide Cinquegrana
Dr. Antonio Ricchi
Dr. Edoardo Bucchignani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- NWP
- turbulence models
- LES
- soil&ndash
- atmosphere interaction
- evapotranspiration
- UHI
- urban climate
- deep convective systems
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