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| WEATHER FORECASTS FOR EUROPE | |
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The National Observatory of Athens issues specific
weather forecasts for: You can visit our new web page at: Any comments and/or suggestions are welcome. |
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| FLASH PROJECT | |
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NOA participates in the EU-funded FLASH project, with the aim to observe, analyse and model ligthning activity over the Mediterranean. More info about the project is given here.
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| WEATHER FORECASTS ON YOUR MOBILE |
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| WEATHER IN JANUARY OVER GREECE |
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| GENERAL INFO |
| Daily forecasts are issued for Europe,
Greece and Athens area by three models: BOLAM, MM5 and WRF. Detailed forecasts are issued for 40 major Greek cities, as well as for selected locations over the Greek seas (sailing forecasts). Forecasts are presented as maps, time-plots, word text and outlook tables. Surface observations over Europe and Greece, satellite pictures, satellite winds, soundings as well as lightning data from NOA's ZEUS lightning detection system are also presented. |
| ABOUT THE MODELS |
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BOLAM, MM5 and WRF models are executed daily at the National Observatory of Athens, using two PC clusters, providing the more detailed weather forecasts available today in Greece. BOLAM model was developed at ISAC-Bologna (Italy). MM5 model was developed at the Pennsylvania State University.WRF model is a next generation mesoscale model, designed to serve both operational forecasting and atmospheric research needs. All three models use as initial and boundary conditions data from the U.S-GFS global model, kindly provided by the U.S. Weather Service. |
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January
2010 was a very wet month during the second half of it. For more info, look at the
January 2010 bulletin (click on the Monthly bulletins button on the
left menu).