Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2009
A six-month project successfully tested real-time, end-to-end multimodel hydrometeorological fore... more A six-month project successfully tested real-time, end-to-end multimodel hydrometeorological forecasts for heavy precipitation and related flooding events in many different catchments in the Alps. A s the first research and development project (RDP) of the World Weather Research Programme (WWRP), the Mesoscale Alpine Programme (MAP) made important contributions to our knowledge on atmospheric processes determined by and influencing weather in mountainous terrain between 1994 and 2005 (Bougeault et al. 2001). A wealth of scientific results (Volkert and Gutermann 2007) was produced in research areas ranging from atmospheric dynamics to mountain hydrology. On the basis of these very positive results, the WWRP Scientific Steering Committee asked the MAP community to consider a forecast demonstration project (FDP). Generally, a FDP aims at demonstrating the advances a research and development activity (or any other trigger) has brought to operational atmospheric forecasting. Thus, a FDP
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2009
A six-month project successfully tested real-time, end-to-end multimodel hydrometeorological fore... more A six-month project successfully tested real-time, end-to-end multimodel hydrometeorological forecasts for heavy precipitation and related flooding events in many different catchments in the Alps. A s the first research and development project (RDP) of the World Weather Research Programme (WWRP), the Mesoscale Alpine Programme (MAP) made important contributions to our knowledge on atmospheric processes determined by and influencing weather in mountainous terrain between 1994 and 2005 (Bougeault et al. 2001). A wealth of scientific results (Volkert and Gutermann 2007) was produced in research areas ranging from atmospheric dynamics to mountain hydrology. On the basis of these very positive results, the WWRP Scientific Steering Committee asked the MAP community to consider a forecast demonstration project (FDP). Generally, a FDP aims at demonstrating the advances a research and development activity (or any other trigger) has brought to operational atmospheric forecasting. Thus, a FDP
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