Grup de Meteorologia - UIB
MEDICANES: Mediterranean tropical-like storms
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Analyses from European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)

Analyses from European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) have been improved during the years increasing their horizontal and vertical as asuch as number of fields that they provide. Some of the medicane cases could not be represented in the global analysis due to its low horizontal resolution. Evolution of the horizontal resolution of the ECMWF analyses is provided in next table.

Implemantation date
Frequency treshold
Hor. res. (degrees)
Vertical res. (levels)
March 1983
63
1.875°
16
May 1985
106
1.125°
19
September 1991
213
0.5625°
31
March 1998
319
0.5625°
60
November 2000
511
0.351°
60
February 2006
799
0.25°
91