MMM ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC REPORT, FY 96
TABLE OF CONTENTS
MMM Research Highlights
- PHYSICS OF MESOSCALE WEATHER SYSTEMS
- Baroclinic Waves, Cyclones and Fronts
- Surface Drag and Frontogenesis
- Frontal Dynamics
- Rocky Mountain Lee Cyclogenesis
- Predictability of an Extratropical Marine Cyclone
- Mesoscale Convective Systems Along the Mei-Yu Front
- Simulation of East Asian Monsoon
- Mesoscale Convective Systems
- Case Study: A Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) in Weak Shear
- Maritime Continent Thunderstorm Experiment
- Mesoscale - Convective Vortices
- Helicity Versus Vertical Wind Shear
- Supercell Dynamics
- VORTEX Case Studies
- Convective Storm Interactions
- TOGA COARE
- The Structure of Mesoscale Convective Systems as a Function of
Environment
- Convective Cores in COARE
- Case Studies
- ADVANCED NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION
- Numerical Methods
- The Method of Averages for Simulating Flows with Multiple Time
Scales
- Forward-in-time Differencing for a Shallow Fluid on the Sphere
- High-performance Computing for Atmospheric Flows
- COMMAS Model Development
- Integration Techniques for Compressible Equations
- Next Generation Mesoscale Forecast Model
- Data Assimilation
- Adaptive Observations in Data-sparse Regions
- Assimilation of Actual GPS/MET Refractivity Profiles
- Assimilation of GPS/MET Refraction Angle Data
- Development of 4DVAR Systems
- Satellite Data Assimilation
- Assimilation of Rainfall Observations
- Assimilation of Radar Data Associated with a Snowband: An
OSSE Study
- Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program
- Model Verification
- Verification of MM5 Forecasts Made During WISP-94
- Experimental Numerical Weather Prediction
- MM5 Real-time Forecasts
- Development of an Operational Mesoscale Prediction System for
Hong Kong
- Typhoon Vortex Bogussing Procedure
- Distributed Numerical Weather Prediction
- Adjoint Variational Data Assimilation
- FLOW OVER COMPLEX TERRAIN
- HaRP Observational Analysis
- HaRP Modeling
- Hawaiian Rainbands: Effects of Thermal Forcing on the Flow
Dynamics
- Critical Levels in Stratified 3D Flow Past an Isolated Obstacle
- Hong Kong Project
- Front Range Windstorms
- Arizona Program: Assessing the Potential for Winter
Precipitation Enhancement
- Longmont Mesoscale Anticyclone
- Coastal Meteorology
- Interaction of Fronts with Orography
- Coastally Trapped Disturbances
- ROLE OF CLOUDS, CLOUD SYSTEMS, AND BOUNDARY
LAYER PROCESSES IN CLIMATE
- NCAR Clouds in Climate Program (CCP)
- Intercomparison of Stratocumulus-topped PBL Simulation from
Different Numerical Codes
- A Numerical Study of the Diurnal Cycle of Tropical Oceanic
Convection
- Cloud-resolving Modeling of GATE Cloud Systems
- Long-term Simulations of the TOGA COARE Cloud Systems:
Quantitative Evaluation
- Density Currents in Shear
- Convective Momentum Transport in a Large-scale Context
- Dynamical Effects of Ice-phase Physics on Tropical Squall
Lines
- Impact of TOGA COARE Convective Systems on the Boundary
Layer
- Response of the Ocean Mixed Layer to Squall-line Forcing
- COARE Sounding Humidity Biases
- Horizontal Scale of Turbulent Fluxes
- TURBULENCE, AND BOUNDARY LAYER STRUCTURE AND TRANSPORT
- NCAR's Geophysical Turbulence Program in MMM
- Small-scale Turbulence
- Eddy Diffusion in Stably Stratified and Rotating Turbulence
- A Re-examination of Two-dimensional Turbulence
- Gravity Wave Breaking in the Middle Atmosphere
- DNS Convection Studies
- Turbulence, Waves and Cloud Formation in the Arctic Fall
Season
- Entrainment Across a Stably Stratified Interface
- Langmuir Turbulence in the Oceanic PBL
- Roughness Effects on Flow Structures
- Lagrangian Dispersion Modeling Using LES Fields
- Dispersion Experiments in a Laboratory Convection Tank
- Studying the Baroclinic PBL Observationally and Numerically
- Microfronts
- BOREAS
- Remote Water Vapor Flux Measurements
- ACE-1
- PEM-Tropics
- PHYSICAL PROCESSES WITHIN CLOUDS
- Microphysical Structure and Evolution of Hawaiian Rainbands
- The Small Cumulus Microphysics Study (SCMS) and Studies of Coalescence
- The Glaciation and Electrification of Florida Clouds
- Ice Formation in Clouds
- Ice Crystal Studies
- Contrail Studies
- Tropical Cirrus Studies
- Balloon-borne Ice Particle Replicator
- A New Instrument for Counting CCN and IN
- Tropospheric Aerosol Studies
- The STERAO Deep Convection Experiment
- Polar Stratospheric Clouds
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