How reliable are climate models?

J Raäisaänen - Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
How much can we trust model-based projections of future anthropogenic climate change?
This review attempts to give an overview of this important but difficult topic by using three …

[PDF][PDF] A description of the advanced research WRF model version 4

WC Skamarock, JB Klemp, J Dudhia… - National Center for …, 2019 - ecampmany.com
The Advanced Research WRF (ARW) model is a configuration of the Weather Research and
Forecasting (WRF) model. This technical note describes the scientific and algorithmic …

Recent advances in the understanding of near-cloud turbulence

TP Lane, RD Sharman, SB Trier… - Bulletin of the …, 2012 - journals.ametsoc.org
Anyone who has flown in a commercial aircraft is familiar with turbulence. Unexpected
encounters with turbulence pose a safety risk to airline passengers and crew, can …

[PDF][PDF] A description of the advanced research WRF version 3

WC Skamarock, JB Klemp… - NCAR …, 2008 - pfigshare-u-files.s3.amazonaws.com
The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model is an atmospheric modeling system
designed for both research and numerical weather prediction. WRF is an open-source …

A new vertical diffusion package with an explicit treatment of entrainment processes

SY Hong, Y Noh, J Dudhia - Monthly weather review, 2006 - journals.ametsoc.org
This paper proposes a revised vertical diffusion package with a nonlocal turbulent mixing
coefficient in the planetary boundary layer (PBL). Based on the study of Noh et al. and …

A combined local and nonlocal closure model for the atmospheric boundary layer. Part I: Model description and testing

JE Pleim - Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
The modeling of the atmospheric boundary layer during convective conditions has long
been a major source of uncertainty in the numerical modeling of meteorological conditions …

Evaluation of three planetary boundary layer schemes in the WRF model

XM Hu, JW Nielsen-Gammon… - Journal of Applied …, 2010 - journals.ametsoc.org
Accurate depiction of meteorological conditions, especially within the planetary boundary
layer (PBL), is important for air pollution modeling, and PBL parameterization schemes play …

Representation of the subgrid-scale turbulent transport in convective boundary layers at gray-zone resolutions

HH Shin, SY Hong - Monthly Weather Review, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
Parameterization of the unresolved vertical transport in the planetary boundary layer (PBL)
is one of the key physics algorithms in atmospheric models. This study attempts to represent …

A sensitivity study of the WRF model in wind simulation for an area of high wind energy

D Carvalho, A Rocha, M Gómez-Gesteira… - … Modelling & Software, 2012 - Elsevier
The performance of the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model in wind simulation
was evaluated under different numerical and physical options for an area of Portugal …

Prediction of landfalling hurricanes with the advanced hurricane WRF model

C Davis, W Wang, SS Chen, Y Chen… - Monthly weather …, 2008 - journals.ametsoc.org
Real-time forecasts of five landfalling Atlantic hurricanes during 2005 using the Advanced
Research Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF)(ARW) Model at grid spacings of 12 …