Numerical Modeling of Middle and High Level Clouds with the Colorado State University Regional Atmospheric Modeling System-RAMS

Abstract

Research supported on this grant has focused on cirrus clouds. The includes the analysis of data collected during the FIRE cirrus experiment, refinement of the microphysics of RAMS for cirrus cloud simulations, development of cirrus radiation theory and parameterizations, and performing mesoscale simulations of cirrus clouds. The simulations demonstrated that RAMS has the ability to simulate many observed features of cirrus clouds including multiple layering, cirrus generation zones, and the growth and dissipation of cirrus for specific cases. The results suggest that RAMS may be suitable for numerical forecasting of cirrus clouds.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 26, 1991
Accession Number
ADA241460

Entities

People

  • Graeme L. Stephens
  • Piotr J. Flatau
  • William R. Cotton

Organizations

  • Colorado State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Boundary Layer
  • Climate Change
  • Cloud Physics
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Geography
  • Heat Energy
  • Humidity
  • Lapse Rate
  • Latent Heat
  • Layers
  • Measurement
  • Meteorology
  • Ridges
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • Weather Forecasting

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation