Table of Contents

Prediction and Precipitating Weather Systems (PPWS) Program

a. Prediction and Predictability

• Scale dependence of predictability
• Ensemble forecasting on the mesoscale
• Verification of mesoscale model forecasts based on mesoscale predictability
• Experimental Numerical Weather Prediction
• QG+1 dynamics

b. Life Cycles of Precipitating Weather Systems

• Convection initiation
• Convective evolution in complex mesoscale environments
• Orographic effects
• Long time scale dynamics of mesoscale convective systems
• Cloud microphysics and precipitation

c. Mesoscale Data Assimilation

• Advanced data assimilation systems for community use
• Optimal use of existing observations & the potential benefits of new observing systems
• Optimal strategies for obtaining targeted observations in data sparse regions

d. High-resolution Weather Research and Forecast Model Development

• WRF Model prototypes for integrating the dynamical equations
• WRF computational framework
• WRF Model physics
• WRF experimental real-time forecasting
• WRF case-study evaluation and testing
• WRF model data assimilation
• WRF community release and related activities
• WRF project management

 

Cloud and Surface Processes and Parameterizations (CaSPP) Program

a. Deep Convective Cloud Systems

• Organized cloud systems and large-scale dynamics
• Cloud systems and microscale processes
• Advanced multi-purpose numerical models

b. Boundary Layer Clouds

• Entrainment Rates in Nocturnal Marine Stratocumulus

c. Surface-Atmosphere Interactions

• Stable PBL
• Interaction between heterogeneous surface and atmosphere
• Interaction between ocean and atmosphere
• Subfilter-scale turbulence in LES
• International H2O Project (IHOP)
• Convective PBL and turbulence dispersion
• Wildfire research

d. Chemistry, Aerosols, and Dynamics Interactions Research

• Chemistry, Aerosols, and Dynamics Interactions Research

College and University Outreach
Teaching arrangements
Individual courses taught
Graduate research advisors
Thesis committee members

Participation in UCAR/NCAR/UOP Programs

Non-technical and Educational Outreach

 

Staff and Visitors List

 

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