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  <div class="eI1">Modelo:</div>
  <div class="eI2"><h2>COSMO (Consortium for Small-scale Modeling)</h2></div>
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  <div class="eI1">Actualizado:</div>
  <div class="eI2">27 times per day, from 00:00, 03:00, 06:00, 09:00, 12:00, 15:00, 18:00, 21:00 UTC</div>
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  <div class="eI1">Tiempo medio de Greenwich:</div>
  <div class="eI2">12:00 UTC = 13:00 CET</div>
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  <div class="eI1">Resoluti&oacute;n:</div>
  <div class="eI2">0.0625&deg; x 0.0625&deg;</div>
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  <div class="eI1">Par&aacute;metro:</div>
  <div class="eI2">Lifted Index</div>
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  <div class="eI1">Descripci&oacute;n:</div>
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The Lifted Index (LI) is defined as a rising parcel's temperature when it reaches 
the 500 millibars level (at about 5,500m or 18,000 feet asl), subtracted from 
the actual temperature of the environmental air at 500 mbar. If the Lifted 
Index is a large negative number, then the parcel will be much warmer than its 
surroundings, and will continue to rise. Thunderstorms are fueled by strong rising air, thus the 
Lifted Index is a good measurement of the atmosphere's potential to produce 
severe thunderstorms. 
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    <td colspan="4"><font size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica" color="#0000FF">The Lifted Index (LI)</td>
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    <td width="17%" valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>RANGE IN K</center></td>
    <td bgcolor="#E5E5E5" width="20%" valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>COLOR</center></td>
    <td width="30%" valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>AMOUNT OF INSTABILITY</center></td>
    <td widht="33%" valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>THUNDERSTORM PROBABILITY</center></td>
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    <td valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>more than 11</center></td>
    <td valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica" color="#00A1E6"><center>BLUE</center></td>
    <td valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>Extremely stable conditions</center></td>
    <td valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>Thunderstorms unlikely</center></td>
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    <td valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>8 to 11</center></td>
    <td bgcolor="#E5E5E5" valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica" color="#00C7C7"><center>LIGHT BLUE</center></td>
    <td valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>Very stable conditions</center></td>
    <td valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>Thunderstorms unlikely</center></td>
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  <tr height="25" bgcolor="#E5E5E5"><!-- Row 5 -->
    <td valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>4 to 7</center></td>
    <td bgcolor="#E5E5E5" valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica" color="#00D18C"><center>GREEN</center></td>
    <td valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>Stable conditions</center></td>
    <td valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>Thunderstorms unlikely</center></td>
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    <td valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>0 to 3</center></td>
    <td bgcolor="#E5E5E5"valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica" color="#A1E633"><center>LIGHT GREEN</center></td>
    <td valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>Mostly stable conditions</center></td>
    <td valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>Thunderstorm unlikely</center></td>
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  <tr height="25" bgcolor="#E5E5E5"><!-- Row 7 -->
    <td valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>-3 to -1</center></td>
    <td bgcolor="#E5E5E5" valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica" color="#E6DC33"><center>YELLOW</center></td>
    <td valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>Slightly unstable</center></td>
    <td valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>Thunderstorms possible</center></td>
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    <td valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>-5 to -4</center></td>
    <td bgcolor="#E5E5E5" valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica" color="#F08229"><center>ORANGE</center></td>
    <td valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>Unstable</center></td>
    <td valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>Thunderstorms probable</center></td>
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  <tr height="25" bgcolor="#E5E5E5"><!-- Row 9 -->
    <td valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>-7 to -6</center></td>
    <td bgcolor="#E5E5E5" valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica" color="#F00000"><center>RED</center></td>
    <td valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>Highly unstable</center></td>
    <td valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>Severe thunderstorms possible</center></td>
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    <td valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>less than -7</td>
    <td bgcolor="#E5E5E5" valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF"><center>VIOLET</td>
    <td valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>Extremely unstable</td>
    <td valign="top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><center>Violent thunderstorms, tornadoes possible</td>
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  <div class="eI1">COSMO-DE:</div>
<a href="http://www.cosmo-model.org/" target="_blank">COSMO</a> <br>
  <div class="eI2">The COSMO-Model is a nonhydrostatic limited-area atmospheric prediction model. It has been designed for both operational numerical weather prediction (NWP) and various scientific applications on the meso-β and meso-γ scale. The COSMO-Model is based on the primitive thermo-hydrodynamical equations describing compressible flow in a moist atmosphere. The model equations are formulated in rotated geographical coordinates and a generalized terrain following height coordinate. A variety of physical processes are taken into account by parameterization schemes. <br> The basic version of the COSMO-Model (formerly known as Lokal Modell (LM)) has been developed at the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD). The COSMO-Model and the triangular mesh global gridpoint model GME form – together with the corresponding data assimilation schemes – the NWP-system at DWD, which is run operationally since end of 1999. The subsequent developments related to the model have been organized within COSMO, the Consortium for Small-Scale Modelling. COSMO aims at the improvement, maintenance and operational application of the non-hydrostatic limited-area modelling system, which is now consequently called the COSMO-Model. </b>
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  <div class="eI1">NWP:</div>
  <div class="eI2">Numerical weather prediction uses current weather conditions as input into mathematical models of the atmosphere to predict the weather. Although the first efforts to accomplish this were done in the 1920s, it wasn't until the advent of the computer and computer simulation that it was feasible to do in real-time. Manipulating the huge datasets and performing the complex calculations necessary to do this on a resolution fine enough to make the results useful requires the use of some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. A number of forecast models, both global and regional in scale, are run to help create forecasts for nations worldwide. Use of model ensemble forecasts helps to define the forecast uncertainty and extend weather forecasting farther into the future than would otherwise be possible.<br>
<br>Wikipedia, Numerical weather prediction, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_weather_prediction" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_weather_prediction</a>(as of Feb. 9, 2010, 20:50 UTC).<br>
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