Abstract: Convective cloudiness generated by a cumulus parameterization scheme of a large-scale numerical weather prediction model was compared with analyses of clouds observed by geosynchronous satellites. The comparisons were ...

Abstract: Five observing system experiments have been performed with the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory (AFGL) global data assimilation system (GDAS). Each experiment includes one week of data assimilation during each of the two ...

Abstract: An updated complete and comprehensive description of the land surface parameterization scheme in the Coupled Atmosphere?Plant?Soil (CAPS) model is presented. The CAPS model has been in development at Oregon State University ...