Weather forecast for the 35th America's Cup (2017) winners based on a limited area model

Christophe Messager; Roger “Cloud” Badham; Marc Honnorat; François Vandenberghe; Tom Waterhouse; Ian Currie

doi:10.1002/met.1879

Weather forecast for the 35th America's Cup (2017) winners based on a limited area model

Christophe Messager
, Roger “Cloud” Badham
, Marc Honnorat
, François Vandenberghe
, Tom Waterhouse
, Ian Currie

Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation

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The America's Cup (AC) is the oldest trophy in international sport and sailing regatta. The 35th AC occurred during spring 2017 in Bermuda. A new generation of sailing boats was in use, while the technical advances required backstage to enable a victory were equally impressive. The availability of accurate wind fields with a grid spacing of < 1 km from numerical meteorological forecasts was one of those key advances, used for both strategic and tactical planning. The study describes the limited area model, explicitly resolving the convection, used to generate weather forecasts for Emirates Team New Zealand (ETNZ) challenger, the challenger and winning team. In particular, it illustrates an ability to forecast accurately the wind variability in space and time, which helped achieve victory.

Original language	English
Article number	e1879
Journal	Meteorological Applications
Volume	27
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/met.1879
State	Published - Jan 1 2020

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explicit convection modelling
sailing
very-high resolution numerical forecast

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