Weather model INCA

Weather model INCA. Available parameters : 2m Temperature, 2m Dewpoint, 2m Relative Humidity, Snowfall level, Freezing level, 3D Temperature, 3D Humidity, 3D Wind, 10m Wind, 10m Gusts, Ground temperature, Wind chill, Precipitation, Precipitation type, Lightning, Collection of convective analysis fields:CAPE, CIN, LCL, Level of free convection,Lifted Index, Showalter Index, Deep ConvectionIndex, Trigger temperature, Trigger temperaturedeficit, Equivalent Pot. temperature, Moistureconvergence, Flow divergence, Precipitable water, Cloudiness, Visibility. This product is not publicly available yet

Date (Creation): 2024-10-01

Identifier: RMI-be / inca

Status: On going

Point of contact

Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium

Owner

Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium

Maintenance and update frequency: Continual

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Atmospheric conditions

Keywords

federal government
forecast
nowcasting
temperature
wind
precipitation
rain
snow
dewpoint temperature
cloud cover
relative humidity
specific humidity
visibility
wind chill

Spatial scope

National

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: No limitations on public access

Use constraints: Intellectual property rights

Classification: Unclassified

Spatial representation type: Grid

Distance: 1000 http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/resources /uom/ML_gmxUom.xml#m

Metadata language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2011-09-30T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: EPSG:4258

Distribution format

GRIB ( 2 )

OnLine resource: RMI opendata portal ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
RMI opendata portal

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Other: dataset

Domain consistency

Name of measure: INSPIRE Conformity

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Statement: INCA (Integrated Nowcasting through Comprehensive Analysis) is a nowcasting system for the analysis and nowcasts of several meteorological fields, like temperature, humidity, wind, precipitation and cloudiness, and some derived fields like precipitation type, wind chill, height of the freezing level and visibility. For the calculation of these fields, INCA ingests a wide range of observational and model data: radar composites, data from automatic weather stations, satellite data and NWP output. The nowcasts of the fields gradually converge towards the NWP forecast for longer lead times. INCA has been developed at the national meteorological service of Austria (ZAMG); INCA-BE is the implementation of this system for Belgium. Since the start of its implementation in 2010, the system has been heavily modified and improved, including: a nowcast of the lightning activity based on the BELLS network, the addition of an uncertainty plume to the precipitation forecast, and the addition of hail as a supplementary precipitation type in the precipitation type forecast. Apart from these system extensions, a complete new module was added to the system as well: the nowcast of 10m wind gusts.