Medium Range (10 Day) Forecasts with the UCLA General Circulation Model.

Abstract

This report presents a series of medium-range (10-day) forecasts performed with the UCLA general circulation model (GCM). For most of the forecasts we have used more than one version fo the GCM with different horizontal resolutions and vertical extents. The impact of these model characteristics on the accuracy of the forecasts, therefore, can be assessed. Section 2 contains an outline of the UCLA GCM. Descriptions of the dataset and the initialization procedure are given in Section 3. An inventory of cases and models used for each case is in Section 4. The major part of this report consists of the forecast results, presented as maps of sea-level pressure (SLP) and geopotential (Z) fields at selected pressure levels.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA170188

Entities

People

  • A. Kitoh
  • C. R. Mechoso
  • J. A. Spahr
  • K. Yamazaki
  • M. J. Suarez

Organizations

  • University of California, Los Angeles

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Boundary Layer
  • Classification
  • Clouds
  • Cumulus Clouds
  • Environment
  • Equations
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Latitude
  • Layers
  • Meteorology
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Research Facilities
  • Security
  • Space Flight
  • Water Vapor
  • Weather Forecasting

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.