Mountain Terrain Atmospheric Modeling and Observations (MATERHORN) Program

Abstract

The prediction of weather in complex terrain is a difficult challenge due to a host of physical and thermodynamic processes and numerical issues involved. While many theoretical and observational studies have been conducted on flow over gradually varying low slopes (hills), flow over high mountains with steep slopes of practical consequence under diurnal forcing still remains an understudied topic. The atmospheric boundary layer therein is forced by diurnal thermal forcing(valley and slope flows), large-scale synoptic influence or a combination thereof, and in all cases the boundary layer is replete With interesting sub-grid scale phenomena that are paramount for mesoscale modeling.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 09, 2017
Accession Number
AD1040424

Entities

People

  • David Whiteman
  • Eric Pardyjak
  • Fotini K. Chow
  • Harindra J. S. Fernando
  • James Steenburgh
  • Joshua P. Hacker
  • Patrick Dunn
  • Sebastian Hoch
  • Stephan Wekker
  • Thomas G. Pratt
  • Zhaoxia Pu

Organizations

  • University of Notre Dame

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Pollution
  • Aircrafts
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Boundary Layer
  • Climate Change
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Geography
  • Large Eddy Simulation
  • Mathematical Models
  • Military Research
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Terrain
  • Topography
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Weather Forecasting

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Educational Psychology
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers