Abstract: During the 120 days of the TOGA COARE intensive observation period, there was an enhanced network of rawinsonde stations covering a large portion of the equatorial West Pacific. These soundings were of sufficient quality ...

Abstract: As an effort toward improving climate model?component performance and accuracy, an atmospheric-component climate model has been developed, entitled the Spectral Element Atmospheric Climate Model and denoted as CAM_SEM. ...

Abstract: The authors describe a recent development and some applications of a spectral element dynamical core. The improvements and development include the following: (i) the code was converted from FORTRAN 77 to FORTRAN 90; (ii) ...