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Numerical Model Simulations of a Mesoscale Gravity Wave Event: Sensitivity Tests and Spectral Analyses
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This study presents numerical model experiments and spectral investigations involving a mesoscale gravity wave event. Its purposes are to determine the sensitivity of mesoscale gravity wave simulation to model configuration ...
Numerical Prediction of an Antarctic Severe Wind Event with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This study initiates the application of the maturing Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model to the polar regions in the context of the real-time Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System (AMPS). The behavior of the ...
Assimilation of DMSP and TOVS Satellite Soundings in a Mesoscale Model
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A modeling investigation explores the impacts of the assimilation of satellite-retrieved soundings on forecast error in the Fifth-Generation Pennsylvania State University?National Center for Atmospheric Research Mesoscale ...
Numerical Simulation of the Large-Amplitude Mesoscale Gravity-Wave Event of 15 December 1987 in the Central United States
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: An observational study, employing spectral methods, is first made to establish a background for a modeling effort of the mesoscale gravity-wave event of 15 December 1987. The waves are found to have wavelengths of 100?160 ...
A Coupled Air–Sea Mesoscale Model: Experiments in Atmospheric Sensitivity to Marine Roughness
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A coupled air?sea numerical model comprising a mesoscale atmospheric model, a marine circulation model, and a surface wave model is presented. The coupled model is tested through simulations of an event of frontal passage ...
Distributed Numerical Weather Prediction via Satellite
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This paper describes a recent undertaking in distributed numerical weather prediction via high data rate networks. The governing project involved the operation of a coupled mesoscale modeling system on widely separated ...
A Decade of Antarctic Science Support Through Amps
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: ctic Mesoscale Prediction System (AMPS) is a real-time numerical weather prediction (NWP) system covering Antarctica that has served a remarkable range of groups and activities for a decade. It employs the Weather Research ...
Real-Time Forecasting for the Antarctic: An Evaluation of the Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System (AMPS)
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: In response to the need for improved weather prediction capabilities in support of the U.S. Antarctic Program?s field operations, the Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System (AMPS) was implemented in October 2000. AMPS employs ...
The Climate of the McMurdo, Antarctica, Region as Represented by One Year of Forecasts from the Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: In response to the need for improved weather prediction capabilities in support of the U.S. Antarctic Program?s Antarctic field operations, the Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System (AMPS) was implemented in October 2000. ...
Cloud Computing Efforts for the Weather Research and Forecasting Model
Publisher: American Meteorological Society