The Integration of the PSU/NCAR Mesoscale Model (MM5) with the Phillips Laboratory Cloud Scene Simulation Model (CSSM).

Abstract

An interface program has been developed to convert interpolated data from PSU/NCAR Mesoscale Model (MMS) to a set of appropriate input data in Navy Operational Regional Atmospheric Prediction System (NORAPS) format to be used in the Phillips Laboratory Cloud Scene Simulation Model (CSSM). The CSSM is an empirical model that produces high resolution, multi-layer, four dimensional cloud liquid water content fields. The MM5 with its utility programs such as TERRAIN, DATAGRID, RAWINS, and INTERP is a numerical model which is designed to predict mesoscale and regional-scale atmospheric flows The MM5 terrain following a vertical coordinate output data has been interpolated with the INTERP program to pressure coordinate data. The interface program has used these pressure coordinate data and converted them to a set of binary data in NORAPS format, which the CSSM model uses for its meteorological input data. The converted MM5 data and a set of cloud data from CSSM are used to generate some sample cloud scene fields.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 30, 1996
Accession Number
ADA319529

Entities

People

  • A. A. Setayesh

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  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Air Temperature
  • Altitude
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Data Sets
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  • Latitude
  • Longitude
  • Meteorological Data
  • Sea Level
  • Shell Scripts
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  • Surface Temperature
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  • Wind Velocity

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Computer Science.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers