Met Éireann will be able to anticipate storms and weather patterns with more accuracy because to a new supercomputer, the forecaster announced, reports RTE.
Met Éireann’s Head of Forecasting Division, Eoin Sherlock, stated that improved forecasting and warnings will result from Met Éireann’s access to a higher resolution perspective of the weather prediction through the supercomputer.
According to him, the first supercomputer is known as Aurora, and the second as Borealis. The Borealis will carry out the study, while the Aurora will provide the forecast.
Mr Sherlock told RTÉ’s News At One: “It will allow us to run our weather model at a higher resolution, so currently it is 2.5 kilometres, and we’re moving up to 2 kilometres, so that’s going to give the weather model a better picture of what lies beneath. So, we will get a better picture, of let’s say, the Wicklow mountains or the Cork and Kerry mountains,” reports RTE.
It will benefit Met Éireann in forecasting the interaction between those characteristics and the weather front, he added. The new approach should be especially helpful in predicting storms, according to the forecaster.
Instead of running the prediction model every three hours, Mr. Sherlock said they will be able to do it every hour thanks to the computer.
He said: “So, that means every hour, we are going to have a new forecast of where the model is. We’re going to be able to track the model, because every hour, we’re going to be putting our observations in satellites, weather bias etc., into the system, and that is going to give us a better position of where the storm track is,” reports RTE.
He clarified that levels in the atmosphere are used to make calculations. He said that the progress will raise them from levels 65 to 90.
For example, Mr. Sherlock claimed that it will display “where the thunderstorms are going to develop, at what temperature, what height we can expect thunderstorms to kick off…what does the storm look like.” This will give people a better understanding of what the weather is doing, reports RTE.
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