Previous projects within meteorological research

The objective of the project is to provide operators of power plants using concentrating solar technologies (CST) with reliable forecasts of the direct normal irradiance (DNI).

The overall goal of EURO4M was to develop the capacity for, and deliver the best possible and most complete (gridded) climate change time series and monitoring services covering all of Europe. These enable adequate descriptions of the status and …

G.I.Nord synthesis project aims at defining critical knowledge gaps and practical needs and obstacles to an efficient implementation of Urban Green Infrastructure (UGI) as a climate change adaptation tool in urban planning. Together with …

Green Infrastructure (GI) has recently gained prominence as a planning tool at regional and local levels. GI provides a range of ecosystem services, and new initiatives can build on state-of-the-art research and on delivery mechanisms such as urban …

HazardSupport is a project 2015-2020 where SMHI and SEI (Stockholm Environment Institute) collaborate with the aim of developing a risk-based decision support for adaptation to future natural hazards. The project is funded by the Swedish Civil …

Future hydrological extremes may be very different from today's reality and difficult to predict. The objective of IMPREX (Improving predictions and management of hydrological extremes) is to support the reduction of Europe’s vulnerability to …

The project goal is to increase the investments in PV technology by describing how data of solar irradiance and temperature can be processed to generate accurate evaluations of forecasted solar electricity generation in Sweden.

High latitude and low electricity price in Sweden make accurate prediction of photovoltaic (PV) system energy yield fundamental both for economic and environmental reasons. More precise estimates would give smaller uncertainties in economy, …

The objective is to improve meteorological and hydrological model forecasts on the km-scale by assimilating satellite radiance and backscatter data regarding the Earth's surface and near-surface properties using modern ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) …

Satellite product simulators simulate what would be observed by satellite instruments if the underlying atmosphere was that of the model. This allows for a fairer/more useful comparison between models and observations. SMHI is developing two …

The aim of this project is to support the expansion of solar PV in Sweden by contributing to a system-friendly deployment in a future grid with 100 % renewable power that is both flexible and robust.

The project objective is to develop and run an ensemble system of regional reanalyses for the climatological time scale. The information content of the datasets and their uncertainties will be assessed in several ways and statistics analysed.

VINDRAD+ creates conditions to open up for the construction of more wind turbines near a weather radar by installing a gap-filling radar

Numerical weather prediction models used by SMHI, WeatherTech and Uppsala University will be improved with respect to parametrizations of cloud physics and turbulence.

The project will investigate the feasibility to implement a wind turbine filter into the signal processor of modernised weather radars.