Mesoscale rainfall forecasts over New Zealand during SALPEX96 : Characterization and sensitivity studies

[...]there is a natural tendency to investigate the value that can be added to the forecasting process by operational runs of mesoscale models forced by analyses and forecasts from global numerical weather prediction (NWP) centers. Because one of the longterm goals of the SALPEX project is to improve mesoscale forecasting in the New Zealand region, RAMS seems an excellent choice because it is used for many real-time forecasting systems (e.g., Manobianco et al. 1996; Snook et al. 1995).