Hello; I was just wondering whether there exists on the market global weather-forecasting models that one could buy. The sort of thing I am interested in getting is a global weather-prediction model that one could run sequentially and find out the weather expected in any part of the world one so chooses. I am after something that you could enter parameters for wind speeds, temperature, humidity and radiation at different levels in the atmosphere, atmospheric subsidence or ascent, sea-surface and land temperatures and radiation plus atmospheric angular momentum (or pick parameters ready installed). One would also be able to put in ocean temperatures for each 100 metres of the oceans and be able to put in things like ice-cover, snow-cover, type of surface (and their albedos and surface roughness) which all have a major impact on weather conditions on the local and macro-scale. It would, ideally, be possible to have parameters on a scale of 100 miles X miles for each value and blocks of atmosphere 1 km thick with this model. I would use such a model to predict weather over months and seasons, and out of curiosity to model things like super-volcanoes and the Solar Constant dropping by 1%.
Does anyone know if such Models are available for the general public to buy, and if so what is the likely cost??
Thanks,
Ian Pennell