National Center for Atmospheric Research
Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division
Annual Scientific Report, 1997
Table of Contents
| DIVISION DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE | ||
| PHYSICS OF MESOSCALE WEATHER SYSTEMS | ||
| Baroclinic Waves, Cyclones, and Fronts | ||
| Effects of Surface Drag on Frontogenesis within Baroclinic Waves | ||
| Ordered Corrections to Quasi-geostrophy | ||
| Effects of Mountains on Baroclinic Waves | ||
| Medium Range Prediction of an Oceanic Cyclone | ||
| Prediction of a Land Explosive Cyclone | ||
| Mesoscale Convective Systems | ||
| Evolution of Deep Tropical Island Convection | ||
| High-Resolution Modeling of a VORTEX Squall Line | ||
| Study of Piedmont Flood Over the Alps | ||
| Mesoscale-convective Vortices | ||
| Helicity Versus Vertical Wind Shear | ||
| The Role of Surface Boundaries for Tornadogenesis | ||
| Sweetwater, Texas Tornado Study | ||
| Convective Storm Interactions | ||
| Tropical Storms | ||
| Interaction of Mesoscale Convective Systems with a Tropical Cyclone | ||
| Simulation of Typhoon Herb (1990) | ||
| Interaction of a Typhoon with an Island Topography | ||
| ADVANCED NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION | ||
| Numerical Methods | ||
| Conjugate-gradient Elliptic Solvers for Atmospheric Flows | ||
| Forward-in-time Differencing for a Shallow Fluid on the Sphere | ||
| Subgrid-scale (SGS) Turbulence Models for the Nonoscillatory Forward-in-time (NFT) Fluid Codes | ||
| High Performance Computing and Communications Program | ||
| Development of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model | ||
| Adaptive-grid Model Development | ||
| Hybrid Coordinate Model Development | ||
| Model Development: Continued Development of MM5 | ||
| Large-scale Data Assimilation | ||
| Adaptive Observations in FASTEX | ||
| Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program | ||
| Assimilation of GPS/MET Precipitable Water Data | ||
| Global Positioning System Meteorology (GPS/MET) Observation of an Intense Upper-level Front | ||
| Assimilation of GPS/MET Radio Occultation Data | ||
| Development of MM5 4DVAR System | ||
| Development of MM5 3DVAR System | ||
| Satellite Data Assimilation | ||
| Storm-scale Data Assimilation | ||
| Assimilation of Radar Observations within Convective Storms | ||
| Assimilation of WSR-88D Observations in the Planetary Boundary Layer | ||
| Sensitivity of the Low-level Wind and Temperature Retrieval to the Knowledge of the Flow Above | ||
| Forecast of Storm Growth and Decay Using Low-level Retrieved Wind and Temperature | ||
| Experimental Numerical Weather Prediction | ||
| MM5 Real-time System | ||
| Forecasting Local Terrain Effects | ||
| Coupled Air-Sea Mesoscale Modeling | ||
| FLOW OVER COMPLEX TERRAIN | ||
| Orographic Effects: Vorticity and Potential Vorticity in Mountain wakes | ||
| Gravity Wave Breaking in the Middle Atmosphere | ||
| Hawaiian Circulation/Rainfall Studies | ||
| Hawaiian Rainband Case Studies | ||
| HaRP Observational Analysis | ||
| Hong Kong Project | ||
| Front Range Windstorms | ||
| Arizona Program | ||
| Modeling Experiments of Clouds and Precipitation in Frontal Systems Over Korea | ||
| Three-Dimensional Stereo Visualization | ||
| Coastal Meteorology | ||
| Simulating Coastal Fog | ||
| Simulations of Observed Coastally-trapped Disturbances | ||
| Effects of Surface Friction and Coastal Terrain on Landfalling Cold Fronts | ||
| Coastally Trapped Disturbances | ||
| ROLE OF CLOUDS, CLOUD SYSTEMS, AND BOUNDARY LAYER PROCESSES IN CLIMATE | ||
| NCAR Clouds in Climate Program (CCP) | ||
| Tropical Cloud Systems | ||
| Cloud Systems in GATE | ||
| Cloud Systems in TOGA COARE | ||
| Explicit Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling | ||
| Sea Surface Temperature, Cloud Systems and Large-scale Dynamics | ||
| Evaluation of Simulated Cloud System Structure | ||
| Evaluation of Cloud-resolving Models Using Satellite Data | ||
| Cloud-resolving Models and the NASA CloudSat Initiative | ||
| Cloud-resolving Models and the NASA Scatterometer Initiative | ||
| Diurnal Cycle of Tropical Oceanic Convection | ||
| Response of Tropical Convection to Large-scale Forcing | ||
| Massively Parallel Computers and Cloud System Simulations | ||
| Convection in Cold Air Outbreaks | ||
| Parameterization Studies | ||
| GCSS Working Group on Boundary Layer Clouds (WG1) | ||
| GCSS Working Group on Precipitating Convective Cloud Systems (WG4) | ||
| Parameterization of Sub-gridscale Variability in GCMs | ||
| Convective Parameterization in the NCAR CCM3 | ||
| Boundary Layer Cloud Parameterizations in the CSM | ||
| Basic Studies | ||
| Entrainment-Rate Formula for Buoyancy-Driven Cloud-Topped PBL | ||
| Wavelet Analysis | ||
| Convection Initiation in MCTEX | ||
| Dynamic Initiation by Density Currents | ||
| Lifting at a Boundary Layer Convergence Line | ||
| Idealized Modeling of Walker-like Circulations | ||
| Realization of Steady Convective Regimes in a Shear Flow | ||
| TURBULENCE, AND BOUNDARY LAYER STRUCTURE AND TRANSPORT | ||
| CASES-97 | ||
| Studying the Baroclinic PBL | ||
| NCAR's Geophysical Turbulence Program within MMM | ||
| Eddy Diffusion in Stably Stratified and Rotating Turbulence | ||
| Two- and Quasi Two-dimensional Turbulence | ||
| Turbulent Thermal Convection as a Function of Prandtl Number | ||
| The Fate and Reconnection of Vortex Tubes in Turbulence | ||
| Entrainment in Clear Convective Planetary Boundary Layers | ||
| Calibration of Radars Using LES Flow Fields | ||
| Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flow Over a Wavy Ocean Surface | ||
| Entrainment in Strongly Capped PBLs: Sensitivity to Resolution and Sub-Grid Scale Turbulence Parameterization | ||
| Lagrangian Dispersion Modeling Using LES Fields | ||
| Large Eddy Simulation of Chemical Species | ||
| Large Eddy Simulation of the Stably Stratified Planetary Boundary Layer | ||
| Observations of Interactions between the Convective Boundary Layer and the Overlying Atmosphere from BOREAS | ||
| Mesoscale PBL Fluxes | ||
| Flux Measurements in the Stably Stratified PBL | ||
| DMS Flux at Sea Surface from PEM-Tropics | ||
| ACE-1 | ||
| SGP97 | ||
| An Instrument for Measuring Dimethyl Sulfide Flux | ||
| Numerical Model Investigations of Marine Roughness | ||
| Physical Parameterization: The Effect of PBL Parameterization on Simulations of the ERICA IOP2 Storm | ||
| PHYSICAL PROCESSES WITHIN CLOUDS | ||
| The Small Cumulus Microphysics Study (SCMS) | ||
| Ice Crystal Studies | ||
| Ice Formation in Clouds | ||
| Upper Tropospheric Relative Humidity Measurements | ||
| Contrail Studies | ||
| Tropical Cirrus Studies | ||
| Tropospheric Aerosol Studies | ||
| Studies of Aerosols and Their Effects on Clouds | ||
| The STERAO Deep Convection Experiment | ||
| COUPLED ATMOSPHERE-FIRE MODELING | ||
| Northwest Territories Crown Fire Experiment and Infrared Analysis | ||
| Development of a New Fire Model | ||
| Sensitivity Test on Shear and Slope | ||
| DIVISION COMPUTING | ||
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