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On Atmospheric Simulation: A Colloquium
To assess a national need for facilities to simulate atmospheric processes, a Colloquium on Atmospheric Simulation was set up to survey current laboratory experimentation on...- 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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The Sun4Cast® Solar Power Forecasting System: The Result of the Public-Privat...
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) led a partnership to advance the state-of-the-science of solar power forecasting by designing, developing, building,...- publication PDF
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Terrain and land use for the fifth-generation Penn State/NCAR Mesoscale Model...
This document discusses in detail the program TERRAIN and is intended to provide users of the PSU/NCAR MM5 with an overview of the data sources and methods used in TERRAIN. Some...- publication PDF
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MM4 (Penn State/NCAR) Mesoscale Model. Version 4 Documentation
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Real-time Forecasts for WISP-91 Using the Penn State/NCAR Mesoscale Model
This technical report describes the experience gained from operational use of the model for the Winter Icing and Storms Project (WISP-91). The operational MM4 forecasts are...- publication PDF
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Confidence Intervals for Forecast Verification
The manuscript is an attempt to present in a single document the various types of confidence intervals, their assumptions, and other issues as they pertain to forecast...- publication PDF
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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 user guide to a particle-growth and trajectory model (using one-dimensional...
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MesoVICT: Mesoscale Verification Inter-Comparison over Complex Terrain
The spatial forecast methods intercomparison project (ICP, http://www.ral.ucar.edu/projects/icp) was formed in 2007 with the aim of better understanding the rapidly increasing...- publication PDF
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Research and development to improve quantitative precipitation forecasts in t...
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Summer Fellowship in Scientific Computing / Computing Facility Summer 1978
The papers presented in this document summarize the research and programming work completed during the summer of 1978 by eight students who participated in the Summer Fellowship...- 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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Evaluation of NMC Global Analyses: 1979-1987
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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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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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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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Scientific documentation of the NCEP nonhydrostatic multiscale model on the B...
This technical note focuses on the scientific and algorithmic approaches in the NMMB dynamics. Discussed are the NMMB dynamics solver, boundary conditions and the horizontal...- publication PDF
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Data ingest and objective analysis for the PSU/NCAR modeling system: Programs...
Report discusses in detail the auxiliary programs DATAGRID and RAWINS, and intends to update previous documentation for these two programs (Haagenson, 1987; Seaman and...- 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