Toward Seamless Weather-Climate Prediction with a Global Cloud Resolving Model
Abstract
The long-term goal of this project is to developing a seamless weather and climate prediction system that has capability to predict accurately both weather phenomena such as tropical cyclones (TC) and other extreme weather events and longer climate-scale phenomena such as the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Organized moist convections in the tropical atmosphere have their origins at space scale of less than 10 km, and they play a key role in the initiation and maintenance of mesoscale weather events such as super cloud clusters and large-scale phenomena such as MJO. The Navy is in urgent need to develop such a global high resolution model that has a proper dynamic core and physics packages and is capable of representing realistically convection and clouds across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales and suitable for prediction of extreme events in regional and global scales.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 2012
- Accession Number
- ADA574133
Entities
People
- Melinda S. Peng
- Shian-jiann Lin
- Tim Li
Organizations
- United States Naval Research Laboratory