Abstract: The eastern and the western tropical oceans usually show a considerable zonal asymmetry in the extent and depth of deep cumulus convection. Earlier versions of a simple cumulus parameterization based on GATE observations ...

Abstract: A high-resolution global model forecast of the formation of Hurricane Frederic of 1979 is analyzed by means of several diagnostic computations on the model's output history. The formation is addressed from an analysis of ...

Abstract: The main theme of this paper is on the intensity forecast of a hurricane (Opal) and interpretation of factors contributing toward it. The paper illustrates the results of assimilation and prediction for Hurricane Opal of ...

Abstract: A dynamic relaxation technique is examined to update a spectral model. The technique consists of constraining selected time dependent model variables towards their predetermined space?time estimates, while the remaining ...

Abstract: In this paper we have examined the evolution of a number of parameters we believe were important for our understanding of the drought over India during the summer of 1987. The list of parameters includes monthly means or ...

Abstract: The emphasis of this paper is on residue-free budgets of seasonal climate forecasts. It is possible to ask the following question: given a seasonal mean geopotential height simulation from a climate model, what is a breakdown ...

Abstract: A two-stream scattering scheme based on the delta-Eddington approximation is incorporated into the Florida State University Limited Area Model for computing the shortwave radiative fluxes due to dust aerosols over the Saudi ...

Abstract: Sparsity of conventional data over tropical oceans makes it difficult to analyze well the moisture and divergence fields, and therefore the diabatic forcing of the tropical atmosphere is not well predicted in numerical ...