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RC LACE

(Regional Cooperation for Limited Area modeling in Central Europe)

A collaborative project with seven participating National (Hydro-) Meteorological Services in the field of meso-scale numerical weather modeling.

The profound political changes in Europe in the late 1980s opened up new communication channels and brought great opportunities for co-operation in the Central European area. These opportunities were recognized at an early stage and eagerly seized upon by several visionary groups. In 1990, a meeting was convened in Vienna to explore the possibility of establishing a Regional Centre for limited-area high-resolution modelling of the atmosphere, for application to operational forecasting. This was the embryo of RC LACE (Regional Centre for Limited Area modelling in Central Europe; later, RC became ‘Regional Co-operation'). The LACE Project was established within a year, the participants being the National Meteorological Services of Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia.

For the first time in the LACE history Project took the decision to expand the Membership to the neighboring country. The formal act of adhesion of National Meteorological Administration of Romania to RC LACE Project was reached by the signing of RC LACE MoU II Amendment Act at 22nd LACE Council session on 8th November 2006. On 9th of November 2007, during the 24th session of RC LACE Council, the next LACE Mou III has been signed.

 

 

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