SYNERGIE AS A POWERFUL INTEGRATED TOOL FOR GLIDING METEOROLOGY

Abstract

Synergie is the operational tool used daily by the whole forecasting community in Meteo-France, national and regional centers. This important piece of software has been developed by Meteo-France and corresponds to a 45 man-year investment. Synergie provides the forecaster with an integrated, friendly, multi-window and evolutive environment, which ailows him to handle and interact with any kind of data (satellite and radar images, conventional observations, soundings, numerical weather prediction models). Its high level of tailorability enables any functional configuration. Thanks to Synergie, the new numerical models developed at Meteo-France (such as the 10 km resolution Aladin model), the ever-growing mass of terrestrial and satellite observations are now more extensively accessed and investigated. The meteorological assistance to gliding competitions requires a high level of expertise on high resolution meteorological data. This is an example of the fields of application of Synergie, through the best possible real time investigations in model and/or soundings data. The main features of Synergie will be demonstrated at the conference, as well as the specific use of this system for gliding meteorology.