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Spherepack 2.0: A Model Development Facility
SPHEREPACK 2.0 is a collection of FORTRAN programs that facilitates computer modeling of geophysical processes. The package contains programs for computing certain common...- publication PDF
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A User's Guide to the Penn State/NCAR Mesoscale Modeling System
The MM4 system is a series of FORTRAN programs and accompanying C-shell scripts that runs under UNICOS on the Cray Y-MP8/864 at NCAR. Each of these shells is a standalone script...- publication PDF
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The Penn State/NCAR Mesoscale Model (MM5) source code documentation
This technical note describes the Fortran code (version 1) of the PSU/NCAR mesoscale model (MM5). It is intended to provide a detailed documentation of the model code for users...- publication PDF
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Normal Modes of an Atmospheric Prediction Model
This technical report describes the derivation of the discrete normal modes of a grid point model developed at NCAR by Somerville and Shkoller. The work was completed September...- publication PDF
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A Description of the Advanced Research WRF Version 2
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Mesoscale Adjoint Modeling System: Version 1
This technical note serves several purposes. In Part I, the development of adjoints is described in general terms for spatially and temporally discrete models. In Part II, the...- publication PDF
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Bias-Corrected CMIP5 CESM Data in WRF/MPAS Intermediate File Format
This technical note describes the generation of global bias corrected climate model output files from version 1 of NCAR's Community Earth System Model (CESM; Hurrell et al....- publication PDF
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Evaluation of NMC Global Analyses: 1979-1987
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User's Guide to the MM5 Adjoint Modeling System
This report is a manual on the MM5 Adjoint Modeling System.- publication PDF
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Description of the Penn State/NCAR Mesoscale Model: Version 4 (MM4)
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Spatial forecast verification: Image warping
PREFACE : In response to a growing need for more informative forecast verification in the face of gridded verification sets, many new methods have been proposed. While widely...- publication PDF
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Free oscillations of deep nonhydrostatic global atmospheres: Theory and a...
This report describes a method of calculating the modes of small-amplitude free oscillations of a compressible, stratified, nonhydrostatic, rotating deep atmosphere, confined...- publication PDF
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Verify - the MM4 Verification Processor
The purpose of this technical note is to describe and demonstrate the capabilities of a processor (VERIFY) developed to verify objectively forecasts generated by the PSU/NCAR...- publication PDF
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The Interaction Between Objective Analysis and Initialization / Proceedings...
A collection of summaries of lectures presented at the Fourteenth Stanstead Seminar on "the interaction between objective analysis and initialization." The lectures both...- publication PDF
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Introduction to Adjoint Techniques and the MM5 Adjoint Modeling System
Adjoint models are increasingly applied to many problems in meteorology and oceanography. The adjoint model of MM5 is a tool which effectively computes the gradient (or a...- publication PDF
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Conversations With Jule Charney
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Theory and Application of Nonlinear Normal Mode Initialization
This document serves as a summary of Ronald M. Errico's lecture notes and papers on the subject of normal mode initialization and how it is basic to dynamic meteorology. The...- publication PDF
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A five-year plan for research related to the assimilation of meteorological data
This report provides scientific rationale and justification for a five-year research plan for the assimilation of meteorological observations into numerical weather prediction...- publication PDF