Abstract: A semi-implicit time integration algorithm developed earlier for a barotropic model resulted in an appreciable economy of computing time. An extension of this method to baroclinic models is formulated, including a description ...

Abstract: 31-yr time series of boundary layer winds has been developed for a region on the outer continental shelf. This simulated time series was designed to be suitable to study the wind resources for a potential offshore wind ...

Abstract: Hurricane Opal?s landfall in October 1995 forms the basis of a serious hurricane forecast problem?the potential for hurricane conditions over land with insufficient warning time. Official National Hurricane Center (NHC, a ...

Abstract: As part of its mandate to oversee the design of measurement networks for future weather and climate observing needs, the North American Atmospheric Observing System (NAOS) program hypothesized that replacing some of the ...

Abstract: recent National Research Council report highlighted the potential utility of atmospheric observations and models for detecting trends in concentrated emissions from localized regions, such as urban areas. The Salt Lake ...

Abstract: lobal Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) radio occultations (RO) over the last 10 years have proved to be a valuable and essentially unbiased data source for operational global numerical weather prediction. However, the ...

Abstract: Data assimilation approaches that use ensembles to approximate a Kalman filter have many potential advantages for oceanographic applications. To explore the extent to which this holds, the Estuarine and Coastal Ocean Model ...

Abstract: The National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) requires improved accuracy in the retrieval of sea surface skin temperature (SSTS) from its Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) ...