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Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) Model: 2017 Scientific Docu...
The Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast (HWRF) system has been in operation at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Centers for... -
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... -
Global Analyses From ECMWF and Atlas of 1000 to 10 Mb Circulation Statistics
This report describes the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) global analyses available to NCAR. Several data sets are available with differing... -
Serendipity : Research Career of One Scientist
Dr. Akira Kasahara reflects on his career of more than 65 years in the field of meteorology, specifically the fields of numerical weather prediction and computational modeling... -
An Implementation Plan for Cool Season Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting
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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... -
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... -
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... -
Report of the First Prospectus Development Team - U.S. Weather Research Program
This is a report by the Prospectus Development Team wherein critical issues related to weather and forecasting, with emphasis on circulations at the mesoscale and short-term... -
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... -
Method for Object-Based Diagnostic Evaluation
This technical note discusses the Method for Object-Based Diagnostic Evaluation (MODE), which is part of the Model Evaluation Tools (MET) verification software package. MODE is... -
Workshop on Numerical Modeling and Physical Reality
This report contains speakers' abstracts as presented at the workshop on Numerical Modeling and Physical Reality held at the Mesa Laboratory of NCAR on September 3-5, 1997 and... -
Research Opportunities From Emerging Atmospheric Observing and Modeling Capab...
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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... -
Evaluation of NMC Global Analyses: 1979-1987
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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... -
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... -
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... -
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.... -
A description of the fifth-generation Penn State/NCAR Mesoscale Model (MM5)
This technical report describes the fifth generation Penn State/NCAR Mesoscale Model, or MM5. It is intended to provide scientific and technical documentation of the model for...
