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Ensemble cloud-resolving modelling of a historic back-building mesoscale convective system over Liguria: the San Fruttuoso case of 1915
Antonio Parodi
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
CIMA Research Foundation, Savona, Italy
Luca Ferraris
CIMA Research Foundation, Savona, Italy
Dipartimento di Informatica, Bioingegneria, Robotica e Ingegneria dei
Sistemi, University of Genoa, 16145 Genoa, Italy
William Gallus
Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University,
Ames, Iowa, USA
Maurizio Maugeri
Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica, Milan, Italy
Luca Molini
CIMA Research Foundation, Savona, Italy
Franco Siccardi
CIMA Research Foundation, Savona, Italy
Giorgio Boni
CIMA Research Foundation, Savona, Italy
Dipartimento di Informatica, Bioingegneria, Robotica e Ingegneria dei
Sistemi, University of Genoa, 16145 Genoa, Italy
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Short summary
Initial and boundary condition data from the 20th Century Reanalysis Project in ensemble mode are used to address the feasibility of performing cloud-resolving simulations with 1 km horizontal grid spacing of a historic extreme event that occurred over Liguria: the 1915 San Fruttuoso case. The proposed approach focuses on the ensemble Weather Research and Forecasting model runs that show strong convergence over the Ligurian Sea, as these runs are the ones most likely to best simulate the event.
Initial and boundary condition data from the 20th Century Reanalysis Project in ensemble mode...
