Abstract: In the current study, the effect of mooring line typology and layout upon the structural behavior of a floating breakwater (FB) is studied. Different elastic anchor stiffness levels and initial pretensions were analyzed ...

Abstract: The propagation of electromagnetic waves emitted from ground-based meteorological radars is determined by the stratification of the atmosphere. In extreme superrefractive situations characterized by strong temperature ...

Abstract: Radar information from several northwestern Atlantic tropical disturbances has been analyzed in order to determine the radar characteristics of the cloud populations typically present in these systems. Frequency distributions ...

Abstract: The potential of the inclusion of two prognostic variables for cloud condensate and precipitation content in adjoint calculations has been investigated in the framework of Météo-France's operational spectral global model, ...

Abstract: This paper first reviews the current status, issues, and limitations of the parameterizations of atmospheric large-scale and convective moist processes that are used in numerical weather prediction and climate general ...

Abstract: new parameterization able to diagnose lightning flash densities is proposed for the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System, including its tangent-linear and adjoint versions. Total lightning densities are expressed as a ...

Abstract: irect four-dimensional variational data assimilation (4D-Var) of NCEP stage IV radar and gauge precipitation observations over the eastern United States has been developed and tested in ECMWF?s global Integrated Forecasting ...

Abstract: our-dimensional variational data assimilation (4D-Var) experiments with 6-hourly rain gauge accumulations observed at synoptic stations (SYNOP) around the globe have been run over several months, both at high resolution ...

Abstract: This article is about a modification of Verlet’s time integration method. First, a one-step version of the basic scheme is described. Subsequently, a diagonal matrix is introduced in the scheme to improve the behavior of ...