SEMINARIA ICM


Seminarium Programu Badań Atmosfery

 7 października (wtorek) o godzinie 13:15
w sali konferencyjnej ICM UW, ul. Pawińskiego 5a, budynek D, V piętro

Richard Hodur
Naval Research Laboratory
Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey

Mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction at the Naval Research  Laboratory

ABSTRACT

 The Marine Meteorology Division of the Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey,  California (NRL MRY) has been engaged in the development and testing of  mesoscale numerical weather prediction systems for over 25 years. In particular, NRL MRY has developed the Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale  Prediction System (COAMPS) for mesoscale, short-term (24-72 hour) applications. In addition to the development and testing, NRL MRY has  transitioned COAMPS to operations at the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC), and for operations at Navy regional centers.
NRL MRY is now actively engaged in improving COAMPS. One significant  improvement that is nearly complete is the NRL Atmospheric Variational Data  Assimilation System (NAVDAS), a 3-dimensional variational analysis. Our research on COAMPS includes improvements to the explicit moist physics, initialization of the position and structure of tropical cyclones, implementation of moving nested grids within the context of  Message-Passing-Interface (MPI) code, air-ocean coupling, mesoscale validation, incorporation of aerosols and the study of their effects on moist processes, and studies of mountain wave dynamics and fetch-limited and orographic flows. This presentation will  provide an overview of the basic components of COAMPS, examples of its use, the methods used to evaluate its performance, and an outline of the advances planned.


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