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• Contents
• EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• 1. SCOPE OF THE PROGRAM
• 2. IMPROVING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF EARTH-SYSTEM PROCESSES
• 2.1 Scale Interactions Associated with Precipitating Convective Systems
• 2.2 Understanding the Dynamics and Predictability of Weather Systems on Time Scales of 0-48 h
• 2.3 Fundamental Research on Precipitation Processes, with an Emphasis on their Improved Representation in Numerical Models
• 2.4 Understanding the Dynamics, Physics and Chemistry of Multi-Scale Atmospheric Chemical Constituent and Particulate Transport, Dispersion and Transformations
• 2.5 Fundamental Research in Boundary Layers and their Interfacial Interactions
• 3. ADVANCING THE SCIENCE OF ATMOSPHERIC PREDICTION
• 3.1 Advancing Short-Range Weather Prediction
• 3.2Advancing Data Assimilation Research
• 3.3 Improving Forecasting of Pollutants and Hazardous Materials
• 4. ADVANCED COMMUNITY RESEARCH TOOLS
• 4.1 WRF Community Model
• 4.2 Community Data Assimilation Techniques
• 4.3 Nested Community Climate Model
• 5. SUMMARY
• Acronym List
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Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Division Science Plan:

2. IMPROVING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF EARTH-SYSTEM PROCESSES

In improving the knowledge of earth-system processes our major goals are to develop a deeper understanding of:

• The 2-way scale interactions between multiscale precipitating convective systems and other scales of motion, with particular attention to tropical and warm-season convection and tropical cyclogenesis;
• The dynamics and predictability of weather systems on time scales of 0-48 h;
• Precipitation processes, with an emphasis on their improved representation in numerical models;
• The dynamics, physics and chemistry of multiscale atmospheric chemical constituent transport, dispersion and transformations; and,
• Atmospheric boundary layers, emphasizing surface interactions.

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