HIRLAM, the High Resolution Limited Area Model, is a Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) forecast system developed by the international HIRLAM programme.

Consortium

HIRLAM programme is a cooperation between following European meteorological institutes:

• Danish Meteorological Institute
  Danish Meteorological Institute
  The Danish Meteorological Institute is the official Danish meteorological institute, administrated by the Ministry of Transport and Energy. The institute makes weather forecasts and observations for Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands....
  
   (DMI)(Denmark)
• Estonian Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
  Estonian Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
  Estonian Meteorological and Hydrological Institute is a governmental service under the Ministry of Environment....
  
   (EMHI) (Estonia)
• Finnish Meteorological Institute
  Finnish Meteorological Institute
  The Finnish Meteorological Institute is the government agency responsible for gathering and reporting weather data and forecasts in Finland. It is a part of the Ministry of Transport and Communications but it operates semi-autonomously....
  
   (FMI) (Finland)
• Icelandic Meteorological Office
  Icelandic Meteorological Office
  Icelandic Meteorological Office is Iceland's national weather service.- External links :* — Official Website — Official Website...
  
   (IMO) (Iceland)
• Lithuanian Hydrological and Meteorological Service (LHMS) (Lthuania)
• Met Éireann
  Met Éireann
  Met Éireann is the national meteorological service in Ireland, part of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.-History:...
  
   (ME) (Ireland)
• Norwegian Meteorological Institute
  Norwegian Meteorological Institute
  Norwegian Meteorological Institute is the Norwegian national institute for weather forecasts.The three main offices are located in Oslo, Bergen and Tromsø. The Institute has around 500 employees and keeps around 650 paid observers of various kinds around the country...
  
   (met.no) (Norway)
• Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) (The Netherlands)
• Spanish Meteorological Agency (AEMET), formerly INM (Spain)
• Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) (Sweden)

In addition, Météo-France

Météo-France

Météo-France is the French national meteorological service.The organisation was established by decree in June 1993 and is a department of the Ministry of Transportation. It is headquartered in Paris but many domestic operations have been decentralised to Toulouse...

(France) is a research partner in the international HIRLAM cooperation.

The Programme

The aim of the HIRLAM programme is to develop and maintain a numerical short-range weather forecasting system for operational use by the participating institutes. The cooperation was started in September 1985, comprises a series of 3-year project between 1985 and 2005, and 5-year programme HIRLAM-A (2006–2010) and HIRLAM-B (2011–2015). Since 2006, the HIRLAM cooperation has shifted its focus to the development of meso-scale (convection-permitting) numerical weather prediction system (HARMONIE) through close collaboration with ALADIN consortium (led by Meteo France) and ECMWF (European Center for Medium-range Weather Forecasting).

The HIRLAM programme is controlled by the HIRLAM council, which consists of the directors of the participating institutes. The programme is managed by the management group consisting of:

• Jeanette Onvlee, KNMI, Programme Manager
• Magnus Lindskog, SMHI, Project leader on data assimilation and use of observations
• Mariano Hortal, AEMET, Project leader on dynamics
• Laura Rontu, FMI, Project leader on physics
• Trond Iversen, met.no, Project leader on probabilistic forecasting
• Xiaohua Yang, DMI, Project leader on quality assessment and operational cooperation
• Ulf Andrae, SMHI, Project leader on system
• Tilly Driesenaar, KNMI, scientific secretary

The management group is advised by a scientific and technical Advisory Committee.

External links

• HIRLAM homepage