Development and Implementation of Universal Cloud/Radiation Parameterizations in Navy Operational Forecast Models

Abstract

1. Design a parameterization for translating prognostic cloud attributes (liquid or ice water content, drop size, layer cloud fraction) in NAVGEM to quantities that will become the input stream to an atmospheric radiation code. Examples are optical thickness, single scattering albedo and fractional cloud overlap. 2. Implement a cloud overlap scheme for NAVGEM.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2013
Accession Number
ADA599082

Entities

People

  • Harshvardhan

Organizations

  • Purdue University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Cloud Cover
  • Clouds
  • Computers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Indian Ocean
  • Information Operations
  • Measurement
  • Optical Properties
  • Planetary Sciences
  • Radiation
  • Scattering
  • Simulations
  • Students
  • Thickness
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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