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atmospheric blocking; ECMWF; FGGE Special Observing Period 1; high winter blocking; models; N Atlantic
Abstract:
A series of numerical models have been used to investigate the predictability of atmospheric blocking for an episode selected from FGGE Special Observing Period I. The blocking took place over the N Atlantic region and is a very characteristic example of high winter blocking. It is found that the very high resolution models developed at ECMWF, in a remarkable way manage to predict the blocking event in great detail, even beyond 1 week.-from Author