Table of Contents
Director's Message and Summary
Scale
dependence of predictability
Ensemble
forecasting on the mesoscale
Verification
of mesoscale model forecasts based on mesoscale predictability
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 overview
WRF Model numerics and dynamic cores
WRF computational framework
WRF model physics
WRF idealized and case-study testing
WRF experimental real-time forecasting
WRF model data assimilation
WRF community support
Developmental Testbed Center and testing for WRF operational
implementation
MM5 development and community support
Cloud and Surface Processes
and Parameterizations (CaSPP) Program
a. Deep Convective Cloud Systems
Contribution to a new NSF Science and Technology Center
Cloud systems on short (diurnal) time scales
Convectively generated tropical ice clouds
Cloud systems on long time scales
Parameterization of deep convection
b. Boundary Layer Clouds & Turbulence
Marine stratocumulus regime
Clear-air boundary layers
Cold-air outbreak convection
c. Surface-Atmosphere Interactions
Land-surface interactions
Ocean-atmosphere interaction at turbulence- and mesoscales
Chemical transports and transformations
Wildfire research
d. Chemistry, Aerosols, and Dynamics
Interactions Research
Chemistry, Aerosols, and Dynamics Interactions Research
Effect of boundary layer processes on chemical species distributions
The importance of the cloud drop representation on cloud chemistry
Cloud chemistry process studies
Cloudscale and mesoscale prediction of chemical constituents
Publications
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