Improving process-based prediction of stream water temperature in SWAT using semi-Lagrangian formulation

ND Melaku, CW Brown, AA Tavakoly - Journal of Hydrology, 2025 - Elsevier
Accurately predicting stream water temperature at large scales requires modeling
techniques that account for various physical, chemical, and biological processes that …

Effect of urban heat island mitigation strategies on precipitation and temperature in Montreal, Canada: Case studies

A Lauer, FSR Pausata, S Leroyer, D Argueso - Plos Climate, 2023 - journals.plos.org
High-resolution numerical weather prediction experiments using the Global Environmental
Multiscale (GEM) model at a 250-m horizontal resolution are used to investigate the effect of …

Incorporating physically-based water temperature predictions into the National water model framework

J Wade, C Kelleher, BL Kurylyk - Environmental Modelling & Software, 2024 - Elsevier
While river water temperatures are a strong control on instream processes and aquatic
ecosystems, monitoring networks for river water temperatures are often sparse. Despite …

[HTML][HTML] A new dynamical core of the Global Environmental Multiscale (GEM) model with a height-based terrain-following vertical coordinate

SZ Husain, C Girard, A Qaddouri… - Monthly Weather …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Caya, A., R. Laprise, and P. Zwack, 1998: Consequences of using the splitting method for
implementing physical forcings in a semi-implicit semi-Lagrangian model. Mon. Wea. Rev …

Convectively transported water vapor plumes in the midlatitude lower stratosphere

X Wang, Y Huang, Z Qu, PA Vaillancourt… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Deep convective overshooting has been shown to transport water vapor into the midlatitude
lower stratosphere. However, it has not been demonstrated how the convective water vapor …

A convection parameterization for low-CAPE environments

R McTaggart-Cowan, PA Vaillancourt… - Monthly Weather …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Numerical models that are unable to resolve moist convection in the atmosphere employ
physical parameterizations to represent the effects of the associated processes on the …

Sweep interpolation: a cost-effective semi-Lagrangian scheme in the Global Environmental Multiscale model

M Mortezazadeh, JF Cossette, A Dastoor… - Geoscientific Model …, 2024 - gmd.copernicus.org
The interpolation process is the most computationally expensive step of the semi-
Lagrangian (SL) approach for solving advection and is commonly used in numerical …

IMERG in the Canadian Precipitation Analysis (CaPA) System for Winter Applications

S Bélair, PN Feng, F Lespinas, D Khedhaouiria… - Atmosphere, 2024 - mdpi.com
Several configurations of the Canadian Precipitation Analysis system (CaPA) currently
produce precipitation analyses at Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). To …

[HTML][HTML] Physical and Statistical Links between Errors at the Surface, in the Boundary Layer, and in the Free Atmosphere in Medium-Range Numerical Weather …

S Bélair, N Alavi, S Leroyer, ML Carrera… - Atmosphere, 2024 - mdpi.com
The adequate representation of interactions between the land surface and the atmosphere
is of crucial importance in modern numerical weather prediction (NWP) systems. In this …

A fast converging and concise algorithm for computing the departure points in semi‐Lagrangian weather and climate models

M Diamantakis, F Váňa - Quarterly Journal of the Royal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate calculation of departure points is crucial for the overall accuracy of a semi‐
Lagrangian advection scheme. The iterative method used in the semi‐Lagrangian advection …