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Slayt 1 - RTC, Regional Training Centre - Turkey

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Horizontal resolution Horizontal resolution is related to the spacing between grid pointsfor grid point models or the number of waves that can be resolvedfor spectral models Directly related to size of weather feature it can simulate Higher the resolution – smaller the weather feature it can depict Typically takes at least 5 grid point to define a feature (grid pointmodel) Example – a model with 20 km grid spacing cannot resolve anythingless than 100 km in length Increasing horizontal resolution increases computation Additional intermediate forecast steps are required to make samelength of forecast

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