Determining Large Scale Tendency Terms for NOWLAPS (Navy Over-Water Local Atmospheric Prediction System). Users Guide.

Abstract

Procedures are described for manually computing the large sacle tendency (LST) terms for NOWLAPS, a one-dimensional planetary boundary layer model designed for shipboard use. A description of the design and testing of the LST method is provided in NAVENVPREDRSCHFAC Contractor Report CR 87-07, Determining Large Scale Tendency Terms for the Navy Over-Water Local Atmospheric Prediction System (NOWLAPS). Keywords: Planetary; Boundary layer; Advection; Atmospheric modeling; Modeling.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA180492

Entities

People

  • Lanning Penn
  • Philip Ardanuy

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Advection
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Contractors
  • Layers

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Computer Science.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers