Center for High-resolution Atmospheric
Regional Modeling (CHARM)

Penn State University

CHARM

Current season tropical storm modeling results

Current research

Archival 1999 Atlantic tropical storm modeling results

Model description

Personnel involved

Related Penn State sites

Correspondence: give us feedback!

The Center for High-resolution Atmospheric Regional Modeling (CHARM)

High-resolution analysis and simulation of the atmosphere have become powerful tools for understanding atmospheric phenomena; when integrated with the broad range of observations presently available, their usefulness is further enhanced.

The Penn State Center for High-resolution Atmospheric Regional Modeling (CHARM) was formed in January 2000 under the umbrella of the EMS Environment Institute. The CHARM project represents the intersection of many different research goals from tropical analysis and modeling, severe weather forecasting, and transport modeling through to data assimilation, mesoscale model development, large eddy simulations and parameterization development. The mesoscale modeling system currently used in this work is the Penn State/NCAR Non-Hydrostatic Mesoscale Model (MM5); the large eddy simulation model is that of Wyngaard and xxxx (199?).

CHARM Personnel

Faculty involved in this research effort include:

William Frank (director), Craig Bishop, Eugene Clothiaux, Jenni Evans, J. Michael Fritsch, Nelson Seaman, David Stauffer, and John Wyngaard.

Postdoctoral fellows and graduate students participating in this work include:

Robert Hart, George Bryan and Dr Houjun Wang.

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Current CHARM Research Efforts

Realtime Forecasts of Atlantic Tropical Storms

Regional Forecasts of the Eastern USA and Atlantic Basin

Assimilation of Satellite-Derived Winds (example plot of winds distribution)

Large Eddy Simulations and Atmospheric Transport

Send correspondence to

Prof. William Frank
Email requesting information on CHARM:
CHARM Project
(frank@ems.psu.edu)
503 Walker Building
University Park PA 16802.
Model questions:
Phone: (814) 865-0478
(hzw@essc.psu.edu)
Fax: (814) 865-3663

Other related Penn State sites

Department of Meteorology EMS Environment Institute
MM5 regional modeling College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS)

Acknowledgements

Last Updated: 10 October 2000

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