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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 14, 2016
Accession Number
ADA626666

Entities

People

  • Melinda S. Peng
  • Shian-jiann Lin
  • Tianming Li

Organizations

  • University of HawaiĘ»i System

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Climate Change
  • Continents
  • Convection
  • Cyclones
  • Electronic Mail
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Frequency
  • Greenhouse Effect
  • High Resolution
  • Indian Ocean
  • Meteorology
  • North America
  • Oceans
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Power Spectra
  • Tropical Cyclones

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers

Technology Areas

  • Space