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Proceedings of the 2020 Improving Scientific Software Conference
The Software Engineering Assembly (SEA) is a loosely structured group of software engineers and scientists who write scientific software, mostly but not only at NCAR and mostly...- publication PDF
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Metrics for Evaluation of Solar Energy Forecasts
This technical note summarizes metrics that have been defined to assess the quality of forecasts of solar irradiance and solar power production forecasting. A set of six base...- publication PDF
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TCMT Evaluation for the HFIP Reconnaissance Data Impact Tiger Team (RDITT)
In January 2013, the Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program (HFIP) established the Reconnaissance Data Impact Tiger Team (RDITT) to conduct a systematic investigation of the...- publication PDF
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A Description of the Advanced Research WRF Model Version 4.1
The Advanced Research WRF (ARW) model is a configuration of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. This technical note describes the scientific and algorithmic...- publication PDF
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Intercomparison of NMC and ECMWF Global Analyses: 1980-1986
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Normal Modes of the NCAR Community Forecast Model (CFM)
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A Three-demiensional Variational (3DVAR) Data Assimilation System for Use Wit...
This report describes the three-dimensional variational (3DVAR) data assimilation system designed and built in the MMM Division of NCAR for use with the MM5 modeling system....- publication PDF
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A multi-resolution Gaussian process model for the analysis of large spatial d...
A multi-resolution basis is developed to predict two-dimensional spatial fields based on irregularly spaced observations. The basis functions at each level of resolution are...- publication PDF
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An Implementation Plan for Cool Season Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting
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Summary Reports--Fellowship in Scientific Computing Summer 1974
This represents a collection of papers written by graduate students participating in the 1974 Summer Fellowship Program in Scientific Computing. The main emphasis of the program...- publication PDF
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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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The Mechanism of Meteorological Noise
Using a simple atmospheric model, the difference between the solutions of the primitive and the quasi-hydrostatic equations is demonstrated. The results.show that the...- publication PDF
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Numerical Forecasting of Winds in the Terminal Environment
This report describes a method for forecasting low-level winds in the Terminal Environment in the 30 to 60 minute timeframe. Tests are performed using data from Lincoln Labs'...- publication PDF
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Scientific Documentation for the NMM Solver
The development of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) modeling system is a multiagency effort to provide a next-generation mesoscale forecast model system that aims at...- publication PDF
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Initialization of the PSU/NCAR Mesoscale Model
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Free oscillations of deep nonhydrostatic global atmospheres: Theory and a tes...
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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A Guide to Transform Software for Nonlinear Normal-mode Initialization of the...
This report represents the culmination of efforts by Ronald Errico and James Vickroy of the Large-Scale Dynamics Section of NCAR's Atmospheric Analysis and Prediction Division...- publication PDF
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Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Climate Informatics: CI 2019
Climate informatics is an emerging research area that combines the fields of climate science and data science (specifically machine learning, data mining and statistics) to...- publication PDF
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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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Impact of Climate Change on Gulf of Mexico Hurricanes
A state of the art modeling study was undertaken to estimate the most likely impacts of climate change on Gulf of Mexico hurricane intensity and frequency. The modeling study...- publication PDF