Implementation of Modeling the Land-Surface/Atmosphere Interactions to Mesoscale Model COAMPS

Abstract

LONG-TERM GOALS: The long-term goal of this project is to improve the treatment of convection and the prediction of convective precipitation in the Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS 1), by including selected land-surface and urban canopy schemes in COAMPS, along with tools that will allow the user to choose the optimum ones for selected nested-grid configurations. OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this project are to: (a) integrate land-surface models and urban canopy schemes into COAMPS, (b) evaluate the limitations of the proposed schemes in describing surface-atmosphere interactions during drought conditions, (c) investigate the impact of land-atmosphere interactions on Quantitative Precipitation Forecast (QPF) skill, and (d) validate the COAMPS model performance when using the land-surface and urban canopy schemes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2011
Accession Number
ADA557104

Entities

People

  • Bogumil Jakubiak
  • Leszek Herman-izycki
  • Maciej Szpindler
  • Richard Hodur
  • Teddy Holt

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmospheres
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Modeling
  • Convection
  • Electronic Mail
  • Heat Flux
  • High Resolution
  • Layers
  • Military Research
  • Models
  • Precipitation
  • Reflectivity
  • Surface Energy
  • Surface Properties
  • Universities
  • Weather Forecasting

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Urban Planning and Geography.