This work is jointly funded by the national key-research project "Innovative Researches on Chinese Numerical Weather Prediction System" (Grant No. 2004BA607B);the project of National Natural Science Foundation of China "Study on Weather Prediction Associated with Heavy Precipitation in China" (Grant No. 40233036).
This paper summarizes the recent progress of numerical weather prediction (NWP) research since the last review was published. The new generation NWP system named GRAPES (the Global and Regional Assimilation and Pre...