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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...- 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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Intercomparison of NMC and ECMWF Global Analyses: 1980-1986
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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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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 quasi-...- publication PDF
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Multi-sensor Advection Diffusion nowCast (MADCast) for cloud analysis and...
A new approach designed for the analysis and short-term forecasting of clouds,called Multi-sensor Advection-Diffusion nowCast (MADCast), has been implemented within the Weather...- publication PDF
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Terrain and land use for the fifth-generation Penn State/NCAR Mesoscale...
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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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 of the NCEP nonhydrostatic multiscale model on the...
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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Research Opportunities From Emerging Atmospheric Observing and Modeling Capabilities
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A user guide to a particle-growth and trajectory model (using...
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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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ECMWF Global Analyses 1979-1986: Circulation Statistics and Data Evaluation
The purpose of this technical note is to establish the climate record from global analyses for use in compiling climatologies which may then be used to validate the Community...- 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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Data ingest and objective analysis for the PSU/NCAR modeling system:...
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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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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An Implementation Plan for Cool Season Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting
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The NCAR Eulerian Regional Acid Deposition Model
The principal objective of this project is to develop an Eulerian regional acid deposition model suitable for assessing source-receptor relationships. The initial task is the...- publication PDF
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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...- publication PDF
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A Three-demiensional Variational (3DVAR) Data Assimilation System for Use With MM5
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
