Olympics 2020
Real-time WRF wind forecasts for the Dutch Olympic sailing team at Enoshima, Japan.
During the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (held July–August 2021), I ran the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model to produce real-time wind forecasts for the Dutch sailing team at Enoshima. Initial and boundary conditions came from the 0.25° Global Forecast System (GFS); the forecasts used a new-generation gray-zone planetary boundary-layer scheme at 600 m grid spacing.
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Each animation below loops through the hourly near-surface wind-speed forecast (with wind barbs) for the sailing venue over the following ~3 days. Click a panel to play.