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This paper presents a first attempt to increase the Cyprus Department of Meteorology operational model’s forecasting skill in Summer predictions. This is pursued with a comparative study of temperature and wind forecasts between the operational model, on the one hand, and other model variants, on the other hand, concerning the spatial resolution and other planetary boundary layer and radiation parameterizations.
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The authors acknowledge the availability of the CYTERA supercomputing facilities of The Cyprus Institute used for the model runs and the provision of the meteorological measurements by the Cyprus Department of Meteorology.
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Tymvios, F., Charalambous, D., Lelieveld, J., Michaelides, S. (2017). Comparative Forecasts of a Local Area Model (WRF) in Summer for Cyprus. In: Karacostas, T., Bais, A., Nastos, P. (eds) Perspectives on Atmospheric Sciences. Springer Atmospheric Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-35095-0_22
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