NHESS Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences NHESS Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 1684-9981 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/nhess-6-755-2006 A case study carried out with two different NWP systems Kållberg P. 1 Montani A. 2 SMHI, S-601 76 Norrköping, Sweden ARPA-SIM, Viale Silvani 6, 40122 Bologna, Italy 04 09 2006 6 5 755 760 Copyright: © 2006 P. Kållberg 2006 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ This article is available from https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/6/755/2006/nhess-6-755-2006.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/6/755/2006/nhess-6-755-2006.pdf

A model intercomparison between two atmospheric models, the non–hydrostatic Lokal Modell (LM) and the hydrostatic HIgh Resolution Limited Area Model (HIRLAM) is carried out for a one-week period, including a case of cyclogeneis leading to heavy precipitation over Northern Italy. The two models, very different in terms of data-assimilation and numerics, provide different results in terms of forecasts of surface fields. Opposite diurnal biases for the two models are found in terms of screen level temperatures. HIRLAM wind speed forecasts are too strong, while LM precipitation forecasts have larger extremes. The intercomparison exercise identifies some systematic differences in the weather products generated by the two systems and sheds some light on the biases of the two numerical weather prediction systems.

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