Registered Users in Europe

Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Austria

Erwin Polreich

erwin.polreich@zamg.ac.at

I used the model for recomputing of Foehn-episodes at the Rhine-Valley during the MAP-Project 1999 and for comparing the Model-Data with SODAR-Data. Now I am investigating the possibilities of MM5 in our emergency response modelling system.
 

Ecowatt - Sustainable energy solutions, Austria

Heimo Trhuetz

office@ecowatt.at

In order of the Styrian Government we are working out a meso- and/or micro-scale wind-climatology to estimate the yield of wind energy plants.
 

University of Vienna, Austria

Centre for Remote Sensing and Atmospheric Processes, Belgium

National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Bulgaria

Dr. Maria Prodanova

Maria.Prodanova@meteo.bg

I participate in the project:

DEVELOPMENT OF AN UP-TO-DATE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE FOR AIR POLLUTION STUDIES IN BULGARIA - (BULAIR ) project leader prof. Dimiter Syrakov

The present project objective is the development of an up-to date research infrastructure for air pollution studies in Bulgaria.In the frame of this project we must made adoption, adaptation and validation of a set of modern diagnostic and prognostic local to regional scale models of the atmospheric dynamics and establishment of collaborative links and networking necessary for providing them with initial and lateral boundary conditions.

In the moment I study MM5 and I am trying to run SOC case but in the future we
would like to use MM5 operatively in the Bulgarian Emergency Response system.

Danish Meteorological Institute

Dr. Ib Steen Mikkelsen

ism@dmi.min.dk

Model leewaves and other types of gravity waves.
 

Energi-og Miljdata (EMD) , Denmark

Srensen, Srensen

mvs@emd .dk

National Environmental Research Institute, Denmark

Department of Atmospheric Environment

Joergen Brandt

lujbr@sun4.dmu.dk

Transport and dispersion of radioactive tracers in connection with accidental releases.

Finnish Institute of Marine Research, Finland

Dr. Timo Vihma

vihma@fimr.fi

My scientific objectives are related to the following topics:

• Atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) over polar regions
• ABL over the sea and coastal regions, particularly over the Baltic Sea
• Parameterization of surface fluxes over heterogeneous surfaces

I am starting to use the model to study:

• ABL over the sea ice margin in the Fram Strait and Barents Sea in March, 1998: warm-air advection on sea ice and flows parallel to the ice margin
• ABL evolution over the partly ice-covered Baltic Sea in February 2001: variable meteorological events
• Interaction between ABL, coastal upwelling, and development of the wave and current field in the Baltic Sea

Finnish Meteorological Institute , Finland

Marke Hongisto

marke.hon gisto@fmi.fi

To study atmospheric transport and transformation of air pollutants fine-scale phenomena in marine and coastal environments effect of sea breeze on air   pollution and nutrient load to water surfaces and study the significance of atmospheric deposition to the eutrophication of the Baltic Sea
 

ERIK GREGOW

erik.grego w@fmi.fi

WINDENERGY WINDATLAS
 

Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de St-Etienne, France

Emmanuel GAILLARD

gaillard@e mse.fr

Eurocontrol Experimental Centre, France

James Smith

james.smith@eurocontrol.fr

Eurocontrol is the European organisation for the safety of air navigation and air traffic control. MM5 will be used in the Environment Department to provide 'real-time' meteorological input to aircraft emission models. These models require fine space and time grids of winds, temperatures, pressures, and humidity. In essence, we will be looking at injecting and tracking the movement of pollutants in the atmosphere (NOx, CO, HC, SO2, H2O, CO2, Benzene, etc.) in the European airspace on a flight by flight basis. A mesoscale model like MM5 is required because commercial aircraft routinely change flight paths between destinations to avoid storm systems. My personal background is in atmospheric (and oceanographic) numerical modelling and meteorology.
 

Laboratoire des Ecoulements Geophysiques et Industriels, France

Eric Chaxel

eric.chaxel @hmg.inpg.fr

Simulate high-ozone episodes in France at mesoscale
 

Laboratoire dOcanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

Denis Bourras

denis.bour ras@lodyc.jussieu.fr

I have used MM5 to simulate the effect of a SST anomaly on the organization of the boundary layer in the context of a field experiment.  MM5 works well.  Thanks alot for this efficient model. 
 

Laboratoire Inter-Universitaire des Systemes Atmospheriques, France

Dr MENUT Laurent

menut@lisa.univ-paris12.fr

To force the chemistry-transport CHIMERE for atmospheric pollution analysis.
 

Deutsches Windenergie Institut, Germany

Francesco Durante

f.durante@gast.dewi.de

Use of mm5 modeling system for wind potential assessment
 

Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft - und Raumfahrt (DLR), Germany

Ford Research Center, Germany

Fraunhofer-Institute for Atmospheric Environmental Research, Germany

Georg Grell

grell@ifu.fhg.de

Regional climate studies, and chemistry modeling.
 

GKSS Research Centre , Germany

Juliane Pestel

pestel@gk ss.de

Coupling MM5 with Landsurface Model and Hydrological Model
 

Global Communication and Research Center, Germany

Institute for Coastal Research, Germany

GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht GmbH

Dr. Klaus-Peter Johnsen

johnsen@gkss.de

LITFASS-98 Experiment 1998, Lindenberg/Germany, FLOODRELIEF (Odra Basin, Poland/Germany).
 

Institute for Physics of the Atmosphere, Germany

DLR Oberpfaffenhofen

Martin Leutbecher

M.Leutbecher@dlr.de

Study propagation of mountain waves (inertial gravity waves) into the stratosphere.
 

Thorsten Fehr

Thorsten.Fehr@dlr.de

NOx-transport in the cloud.
 

METCON Umweltmeteorologische Beratung , Germany

Klaus Bigalke

news.bigalke@metcon-umb.de

Meterological Institute, Munich University, Germany

Mr. Michael Riemer

riemer@cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de

Interaction tropical cyclone - baroclinic wave
 

Gerald Thomsen

gerald@meteo.physik.uni-muenchen.de

At the moment searching for a PhD studentship
 

University of Cologne, Germany

EURAD group

Hendrik Elbern

he@eurad.uni-koeln.de

Markus Klaus Heupel

mh@eurad.uni-koeln.de

Hermann Jakobs

hj@eurad.uni-koeln.de

Using MM5 as the meteorological driver for chemical transport calculations over Europe.
 

Hendrik Feldmann

hf@eurad.uni-koeln.de

Stefan Tilmes

st@eurad.uni-koeln.de

Testing the performance of advanced advection schemes for the transport of humidity fields.
 

University Karlsruhe , Germany

Axel Seifert

axel.seifert @imk.fzk.de

University of Muenchen, Germany

Leo Gantner

leo@gandi1.meteo.physik.uni-muenchen.de

Andreas Pfeiffer

A.Pfeiffer@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

Regional climate modeling for southern Germany.
 

Arnold Tafferner

uh22602@sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de

University of Munich, Germany

Meteorological Institute

Mr. Sang Van Nguyen

sang@meteo.physik.uni-muenchen.de

I am currently doing some idealized calculations with MM5. The objectives are to understand how a full-physic model behave to specific processes and to understand the role of important processes. The cases I am studying are to simulate tropical cyclon and trough formation.
 

University of Oldenburg , Germany

Hans Jaoko

hans.jaoko @uni-oldenburg.de

Developing resource maps and climatic forecasting
 

Tim de Paus

tim.de.pau s@uni-oldenburg.de

The modelling of wind fields in several types of landscape in Europe. Both forecasting and wind atlas.
 

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Anastasia Poupkou

apoup@skiathos.physics.auth.gr

Regional photochemical pollution at the Eastern Mediterranean Region
 

Mr. Iraklis Lisaridis

hralys@evia.auth.gr

Transbountary Air Pollution.
 

Germany

Sebastian Kricner

webmaster@funwelt.de

Meteorological Institute, National Observatory Of Athens, Greece

Dr. Michael Petrakis

mike@env.meteo.noa.gr

Air pollution studies.
 

University of Ioannina, Greece

Kostas Mironakis

me00759@cc.uoi.gr

Application of mm5 model in the North-West area of Greece.
 

Eötvös Loránd univercity of science, Hungary

Departmant of Metorology

Mr. Gabi Chamas

Chgabi@freemail.hu

My scientific process is the study of regional thunderstorm events on the last ten years over the lake of Balaton with a grid scales not 30 km

Hunagarian Meteorological Sevice, Hungary

Mr. Akos Horvath

horvath.a@met.hu

We are using the modell for nowcasting purposes.
There is a "large" (DX=12 km, +24 hours) run, which covers Midlle-European territry, (12 and 00 UTC with 3 hours analysis nudging), and we try to set up a local run system, which would cover Carpathian-basin ( DX=6 km +6 hours).
Local runs get boundary from the large model run.

We would like to ingest radar data into local modell in the future.

The Icelandic Meteorologic Office and The University of Iceland, Iceland

Mr. Halfdan Agustsson

halfdan@hi.is

Part of studies, M.Sc. degree in Meteorology.
 

National Institute for Climatology, Iran

Alireza Shahabfar

shahabfar@wali.um.ac.ir

Research into Numerical Weather Prediction Models
 

Amateur meteorologist , Ireland

Tony Pigott

tonypigott@o2.ie

I am an amateur meteorologist living in Ireland. I would like to use MM5 to produce my own weather forecasts for this area.
 

University College Cork, Ireland

Israel Institute for Biological Research, Israel

Berkovic Sigalit

berkovic@iibr.gov.il

Studying sea-land breeze
 

Dorita Rostkier-Edelstein

rostkier@ii br.gov.il

Tel Aviv University, Israel

Deaprtment of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences

Ayal Anis

ayalan@cyclone.tau.ac.il

Simeon Krichak

shimon@snow.tau.ac.il

Alpert Pinhas

pinhas@pluto.tau.ac.il

Marina Tzidulko

marina@pluto.tau.ac.il

Nataly Perlin

natalyp@cyclone.tau.ac.il

Potential effects of land-use modifications on rainfall and convection in semi-arid zones in south Israel.
 

University of Haifa , Israel

Ariel Freundlich

afreundl@post.tau.ac.il

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile ed Ambientale - Universit degli Studi di Trento , Italy

Stefano Serafin

stefano.serafin@ing.unitn.it

Health Protection Local Office of Milan, Italy

Dr. Paola Simoni

paan@comet.zerocity.it

Evaluate ozone effects and damages on vegetation in two lateral valleys of Valtellina, Italy.  
 

Istitute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Italy

Dr. Carlo Maria Medaglia

c.medaglia@isac.cnr.it

Modelling of Catastrophic events and convective events (Algerian storm 10-16 November 2001).
 

Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Italy

Unit of Health and Emissions

Wagner Sebastien

sebastien.wagner@jrc.it

I am planning to use MM5 on various areas in Europe (Po Valley in Italy, Marseille in France, etc.) in order to have the meteorological fields on these areas. Runs will be done using the MM5 nesting procedures and then the results will be used to drive the air quality model I am developping (MAPOM - Multiscale Air Pollution Model).
 

Joint Research Center - ISPRA, European Commission, Italy

Regional Meteorologica Service of Emilia-Romagna, Bologna, Italy

Universita degli dell'Aquila, Italy

Dipartimento di Fisica

Rossella Ferretti

ferretti@vxscaq.aquila.infn.it

Precipitation events in the Alpine region of Italy.
Coupling MM5 with a chemical model.
 

Geophysical Institute University of Bergen / Storm Weather Center, Norway

Gard Hauge

gard.hauge@storm.no

I am using MM5 for my Ph. D. studies where the main topic is the capability to forecast temperature inversions. This involves tuning of parameterizations of the surface and boundary layer.    As a part of my job at Storm Weather Center I have also been strongly involved in setting up MM5 opearationally.
 

Kjeller Vindteknikk AS, Norway

Dr. Erik Berge

erik.berge@vindteknikk.no

I have been using MM5 for several years forecasting meteorology in Norwegian cities. This work I carried out in my previous position at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. In my new position at Kjeller Vindteknikk
the aim is to start meso-scale studies with MM5 for wind resource mapping
and forecasting mostly in Norway. In the initial phase I will try to set up
an idealized version of MM5 where initial and boundary wind and stability
conditions can be controlled.

Norwegian Institute of Air Research, Norway

Division for Regional and Global Pollution Problems

Lars R. Hole

Lars.Hole@nilu.no

Local traffic pollution: Try to do simulations for Norwegian cities during temperature inversion situations in winter.
Noise prediction with emphasis on temperature inversion situations.
Monitoring tropospheric ozone above forest: Investigate episodes with high ozone levels.
 

The Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Norway

University of Bergen, Norway

Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research

Dr. Alastair D. Jenkins

Alastair.Jenkins@gfi.uib.no

The MM5 model is to be run within the project ProClim (Polar Ocean Climate Processes), which is funded by the Norwegian Research Council for the period 2003-2006. The objectives of the project are to study climate-related processes in polar regions, using observations, process modelling, parameterization, analysis of observations and model results, and synthesis. The project is organized in four Work Packages (WP): WP1 - deep mixing and sinking of water masses; WP2 - water mass generation over continental shelves; WP3 - convection and overflow from continental shelves; WP3 - Integration of results, by use of models, observation, and theory. The project leader is Professor Peter M.
Haugan <Peter.Haugan@gfi.uib.no>.

MM5 will be used for process modelling in the atmosphere and polar ocean regions, for the area around Storfjorden (Spitsbergen) and the western Barents Sea. The model will be coupled, by means of the OASIS model coupling system, to the ROMS ocean and sea-ice model, to study processes in and around polynyas which lead to the formation of brine, which by mixing and sinking can generate ocean deep water.

Dates and particular meteorological events are as yet to be specified, It is anticipated that the brine-formation processes occur primarily during the winter season.

Meteorology and Air Quality Group  Wageningen University , Netherlands

Leo Kroon

Leo.Kroon@wur.nl

1. To study mesoscale systems generated by local/regional topography and/or land-use. 2. Assessment of regional climate.
 

Wageningen University , Netherlands

Pim Rooijmans

P.Rooijmans@phys.uu.nl

Using the model to predict the effects on cloud formation and wind regime of a big off-shore windmill-park in the North-Sea.
 

INETI, Portugal

Paulo Costa

paulo.costa@ineti.pt

Wind and power production related to renewable energy
 

University of Aveiro, Portugal

Dpt. Meteorology and Climatology Faculty of Geography Moscow State University , Russia

Alexandre Kislov

akislov@geogr.msu.ru

To study desertification in arid zone of Central Asia  to study variability of snow cover  to study regional climate and environmental changes over some areas during several snapshots of the past
 

National Institute of Meteorology, Romania

Ms. Iulia Ibanescu

iuliaibanescu@hotmail.com

I'm using the model as base for meteorological forecasts. Also I'm using
it to compare to other existing models. I have to run the model daily in an
operational flow.

Centro de Investigaciones Energeiticas Medioambientales y Tecnolesgicas, Spain

Jorge Navarro Montesinos

jorge.navarro@ciemat.es

Apply the model to wind farms and predict as accurate as possible the wind velocity and
the energy at a specific area and for different forecasts
 

Fundacion Centro de Estudios Ambientales del Mediterraneo, Spain

Iberdrola, Ingenieria, Spain

Eloy Piernagorda

epa@iberdrolaingenieria.es

Real time wind field prediction in several spanish areas
 

Institute of Space Studies of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

MeteoGalicia, Spain

Breogan Gomez Hombre

breogan@fmares.usc.es

We started on the year 2000 to make an operational weather forecast for Galicia (a region in north-western Spain). Few months later we included MM5 as a part of this forecast. I am a new responsible for this model so I am interest in being update with the latest news.
 

RED IBERICA MM5 Project, Spain & Portugal

Romualdo Romero.

Romu.Romero@uib.es

"Red Iberica para la investigacion y desarrollo de aplicaciones en base
al modelo atmosferico MM5 (RED IBERICA MM5)"
(In english: Iberic network for the research and development of applications based on the MM5 atmospheric model)

RED IBERICA MM5 is a cooperative project among more than 30 iberic (Spain + Portugal) laboratories involved with MM5 model. It is based on some periodic meetings and especially on the web page:

       http://redibericamm5.uib.es

where contributions and interactions among the partners and other interested people occur.

Technical University of Madrid, Spain

Prof. Roberto San Jose

roberto@fi.upm.es

Air quality modeling.
 

Universidad Complutense de Madrid , Spain

Francisco Correoso

kiko@600 0aire.fis.ucm.es

Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain

University of the Basque Country, Spain

MR. JESUS FERNANDEZ

chus@wm.lc.ehu.es

I intend to perform a climatic run of the mm5 nested into a 500 year gcm integration. The mm5 will be centered over the north atlantic -> iberian peninsula -> cantabrian coast (northern coast of the iberian peninsula). I'm interested in precipitation and humidity transport.

Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela , Spain

Julio Tucinosasorey

jfucinos@usc.es

Student of Fisica , Spain

Antonio Antonio Pazos Budia

tonono2@ hotmail.com

Department of Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, Sweden

Mr. Erik Svensson

erik.svensson@phc.gu.se

I will perform laboratory studies of phase transitions on water droplets. In order to evaluate the possible climate forcing of my results, I would like to use mm5. For instance, if a freezing prosess at "high"temperatures is found, how will it affect the regional climate. Thus, I an not interested in some special date or event, but rather a typical
situation over Scandinavia.

Earth Science Centre , Sweden

Lin Tang

lin@gvc.gu.se

Air quality in megacity in developing countries
 

Swedish Meteorological & Hydrological Institution, Sweden

Esbjrn Olsson

esbjorn.ols son@smhi.se

Forecasting of winds with high horizontal resolution in complex terrain.
 

Sweden

Andreas Grantinger

andreas.grantinger@telia.com

Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

Sebnem Andreani-Aksoyoglu

sebnem.andreani@psi.ch

We are trying to generate meteorological inputs for the Eulerian CAMx model for investigating the air quality, NOx/VOC sensitivity of ozone formation in Switzerland. We want to investigate not only short term but also long-term characteristics of the air pollution (i.e. seasonal effects on sensitivity, impacts on vegetation, and simulating surface winds of Bohai sea which is need for a sea wave model.
 

Johannes Keller

johannes.keller@psi.ch

Air quality modeling, Central Europe, Switzerland  
 

Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

Tayfun KINDAP

kindap@itu.edu.tr

I am a graduate student working on air pollution modelling (CAMx) covering the zone between Eastern Europe and Turkey and its immediate environment. I have to use to the meteorological model MM5 (Penn-State Mesoscale Meteorological Model) which is a prerequisite for the mentioned model.
 

Ufuk Utku Turuncoglu

turuncogl1 @itu.edu.tr

Middle east technical university , Turkey

ALI CAN

ali.can@di e.gov.tr

CO2 distribution model over Turkey
 

Turkish State Meteorological Service , Turkey

Fatih Buyukkasabbasi

fkasapbasi @meteor.gov.tr

Mesoscale models  Ensemble Prediction System of ECMWF Data formats such as GRIBBUFR commonly used in meteorology
 

MERAL DEMIRTAS

mdemirtas @meteor.gov.tr

To produce high resolution good quality operational weather forecasts  for the bench-forecasters in our met. service.  To study various aspects of meso-scale events over Mediterranean  Sea and Black Sea regions of Turkey
 

Centre for Applied Oceanography, University of Wales, Bangor, UK

Power Technology Centre, UK

Dr Stephen Griffiths

Stephen.griffiths@powertech.co.uk

MM5 is being used to provide input data for a version of Models-3 set up for the UK & Europe. We are currently testing Models-3 performance against a number of weekly datasets from 1998 and 1999. The objective is to successfully adapt Models-3 for the UK with a view to using it for scenario modelling and to promote the wider use of Models-3 in the UK & Europe.
 

University College of London, UK

Department of Geography

Mr. Gil Lizcano

g.lizcano@geog.ucl.ac.uk

Regional Wind Climate Assessment for Brazil and East/South Africa Statistical Dynamical Methodology

University of Bristol , UK

Laura Bird

lb2700@br is.ac.uk

University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK

Evangelia Fragkou

lfragkou@hotmail.com

Investigation of the role of urban boundary layer processes
 

Vaisala Limited, UK

Jianmin Shao

jianmin.shao@vaisala.com

Site spesific road ice prediction in the UK