NWP References for Class Visits

Professor Emanuel's class:

(i)Lorenz, E. N., and K. A. Emanuel, 1998: Optimal sites for supplementary weather observations: Simulation with a small model.J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 399-414.
(ii) Palmer, T. N., R. Gelaro, J. Barkmeijer and R. Buizza, 1998: Singular vectors, metrics and adaptive observations.J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 6xx-6yy. Two papers on moist adjustment for class on 20/3/98, 23/3/98, 25/3/98 and 30/3/98 are:
(i)Frank, W. M., and J. Molinari, 1993: Moist convective adjustment.
(ii)Betts, A., and M. Miller, 1993: The Betts-Miller scheme.
Both of these are taken from an AMS monograph on convective parameterization. 27/3/98 Andy Jacobson's class visit:
Ghil, M., S. Cohn, J. Tavantzis, K. Bube and E. Isaacson, 1981: Applications of estimation theory to numerical weather prediction. In ``Dynamic Meteorology: Data Assimilation Methods'', L. Bengtsson, M. Ghil and E. Kallen (Eds), Applied Mathematical Sciences Series No. 36, ISBN 0-387-90632-0, Springer-Verlag New York, 330pp. 3/4/98 Basic structure of a GCM for class on Monday 6/4/98:
Kiehl, J. T., 1992: Chapter 10: Atmospheric general circulation modeling (subsections 10.3-10.5). From Climate System Modeling, K. E. Trenberth (Ed), ISBN 0-521-43231-6, Cambridge University Press, 788pp. (same as Friday)
Hack, J. J., B. A. Boville, B. P. Briegleb, J. T. Kiehl, P. J. Rasch and D. L. Williamson, 1993: Description of the NCAR Community Climate Model (CCM2) NCAR Technical Note TN-382+STR, Climate and Global Dynamics Division, NCAR, Boulder CO, June 1993, 108pp. Professor Molinari's class:
Molinari, J., and M. Dudek, 1992: Parameterization of convective precipitation in mesoscale numerical models: A critical review. Mon. Wea. Rev., 120, 326-344.

Paper References for Project 2

Please check the preparatory reading for each paper and compare it to the class list. This is to familiarise the rest of the class with what you are doing as well! It is the "instant background" in place of an entire career of pondering these issues.

Heymsfield, A.J. and L.J. Donner, 1990: A scheme for parameterizing ice-cloud water content in general circulation models. J. Atmos. Sci., 47, 1865-1877. [Matt Boehm]

Preparatory reading: Section 2.
Gregory, D., and R. Kershaw, 1997b: Parametrization of momentum transport by convection II: Tests in single-column and general circulation models. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 123, 1153-1183. [Pat Maloit]
Preparatory reading: Gregory, D., and R. Kershaw, 1997a: Parametrization of momentum transport by convection I: Theory and cloud modelling results. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 123, 1134-1136 (whole paper is 1133-1151).
Wetzel, P. J., and A Boone, 1995: A Parameterization for Land-Atmosphere-Cloud Exchange (PLACE): Documentation and testing of a detailed process model of the partly cloudy boundary layer over heterogeneous land. J. Climate, 8, 1810-1837. [Bob Much]
Preparatory reading: Pages 1810-1814 inclusive.
Cheng, M. D., and A. Arakawa, 1997: Inclusion of rainwater budget and convective downdrafts in the Arakawa-Schubert cumulus parameterization. J. Atmos. Sci., 54, 1359-1378. [Jon Radakovich]
Preparatory reading: Last section (summary).
Kain, J. S., and J. M. Fritsch, 1990: A one-dimensional entraining/detraining plume model and its application to convective parameterization. J. Atmos. Sci., 47, 2784-2802. [Neil McGillis]
Preparatory reading: Abstract.
Wyngaard, J., and O. Cote, 1974: The evolution of a convective boundary layer - a high-order-closure model study. Boundary Layer Meteor., 7, 289-308. [Milena Borissova]
Preparatory reading....
Abdella, K., and N. McFarlane, 1997: A new second-order turbulence closure scheme for the planetary boundary layer. J. Atmos. Sci., 54, 1850-1867. [Ryan Cutter]
Preparatory reading: Abstract and Introduction.

Abstract for Milena's paper

The evolution of the boundary layer on day 33 of the Wangara experiment in southeast Australia is calculated with a high- order- closure turbulence model. This, model, which includes equations for the mean field as well as the second moments of the turbulence field, is described in detail. The mean profile of wind, temperature, and humidity fluxes, the Reynolds stress distributions, and the height of the BL are shown between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. The results agree well with those from Deardorff's 3-D simulation and take relatively little computer time.

Last Updated: 22 April 1998