An Initialization Procedure for Limited-Area Models for Numerical Weather Prediction.

Abstract

This paper describes a diagnostic objective analysis procedure designed to derive dynamically consistent three-dimensional fields of horizontal wind velocity, geopotential and temperature over limited-area subsynoptic and mesoscale domains. These analyses provide data for initial and boundary conditions for the fine-mesh model tests over the United States and Europe made at Fleet Numerical Weather Central (FNWC) and described by Anthes (1978). Objective analyses are produced on nine standard pressure levels over 70 x 70 unstaggered 60-km Cartesian grids on Lambert conformal map projections covering the United States and western Europe including the western Mediterranean Sea.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA059974

Entities

People

  • Daniel Keyser

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Europe
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Geostrophic Wind
  • Meteorology
  • Military Research
  • North America
  • Research Facilities
  • Standards
  • Statistics
  • United States
  • Weather Forecasting
  • Western Europe
  • Wind Velocity

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Geodesy