Abstract: Mesoscale circulations generated by landscape discontinuities (e.g., sea breezes) are likely to have a significant impact on the hydrologic cycle, the climate, and the weather. However, these processes are not represented ...

Abstract: A hybrid coupled ocean?atmosphere model is used to investigate low-frequency variability in the climate system. The model's atmospheric component is a Budyko-Sellers-North, two-dimensional energy-balance model; the oceanic ...

Abstract: A number of short-term numerical experiments conducted by the Penn State?NCAR fifth-generation Mesoscale Model (MM5) coupled with an advanced land surface model, alongside the simulations coupled with a simple slab model, ...

Abstract: This paper addresses and documents a number of issues related to the implementation of an advanced land surface?hydrology model in the Penn State?NCAR fifth-generation Mesoscale Model (MM5). The concept adopted here is ...

Abstract: An idealized North Atlantic Ocean model is forced by climatological wind stress, restoring temperature, and a diagnosed salinity flux. Both centennial and interdecadal oscillations are sustained in the model if the diagnosed ...

Abstract: Numerical experiments using a state-of-the-art high-resolution mesoscale cloud model showed that land-surface moisture significantly affects the timing of onset of clouds and the intensity and distribution of precipitation. ...

Abstract: Vertical heat fluxes associated with mesoscale circulations generated by land-surface wetness discontinuities are often stronger than turbulent fluxes, especially in the upper part of the atmospheric planetary boundary ...

Abstract: Multiscale atmospheric forcing data at 1-, 5-, and 10-km scales from the 1997 Cooperative Atmosphere Surface Exchange Study (CASES-97) were used to drive three uncoupled land surface models: the National Center for Atmospheric ...

Abstract: A number of numerical experiments with a high-resolution mesoscale model were conducted to study the convective rainfall event that caused the 1996 Buffalo Creek, Colorado, flash flood. Different surface conditions and ...

Abstract: Precipitation is a critical input to land surface and hydrology modeling and prediction. Dynamical downscale modeling has added value to representing precipitation, when compared with the performance of coarse-resolution ...