GCSS - Working Group 4 Precipitating convective cloud systems	Case 5: Transition of Tropical Convection Studies with NWP models
GCSS WG4 Chair: Jon Petch jon.petch@metoffice.gov.uk	Case Coordinator: Martin Willett martin.willett@metoffice.gov.uk

Running the NWP component of Case 5

48-hour forecasts are to be run for each day within 3 periods of the TOGA COARE experiment.
The runs are to initialised from ERA 40.
Diagnostics are requested for each gridpoint within 1S-3S and 153E-157E for each timestep.
Full instructions for running the NWP component of Case 5 are available in here in postscript or pdf.
Contributions are welcome from global and limited area NWP models or climate models. Please contact Martin Willett if you are interested.

Progress and results

First results from the NWP models presented at the WG4 session at Pan GCSS Meeting 2005, Athens - pdf.
Further results will be presented by Martin Willett at the Royal Meteorological Society Conference (Exeter University, September 11th-16th 2005).
Original plots.
Original plots + IFS run from improved ERA40.