A review on regional convection‐permitting climate modeling: Demonstrations, prospects, and challenges

AF Prein, W Langhans, G Fosser… - Reviews of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Regional climate modeling using convection‐permitting models (CPMs; horizontal grid
spacing< 4 km) emerges as a promising framework to provide more reliable climate …

Rossby wave packets on the midlatitude waveguide—A review

V Wirth, M Riemer, EKM Chang… - Monthly Weather …, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Rossby wave packets (RWPs) are Rossby waves for which the amplitude has a local
maximum and decays to smaller values at larger distances. This review focuses on upper …

What is the predictability limit of midlatitude weather?

F Zhang, YQ Sun, L Magnusson… - Journal of the …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Understanding the predictability limit of day-to-day weather phenomena such as midlatitude
winter storms and summer monsoonal rainstorms is crucial to numerical weather prediction …

Scale-selective verification of rainfall accumulations from high-resolution forecasts of convective events

NM Roberts, HW Lean - Monthly Weather Review, 2008 - journals.ametsoc.org
The development of NWP models with grid spacing down to∼ 1 km should produce more
realistic forecasts of convective storms. However, greater realism does not necessarily mean …

Moist orographic convection: Physical mechanisms and links to surface-exchange processes

DJ Kirshbaum, B Adler, N Kalthoff, C Barthlott… - Atmosphere, 2018 - mdpi.com
This paper reviews the current understanding of moist orographic convection and its
regulation by surface-exchange processes. Such convection tends to develop when and …

SAL—A novel quality measure for the verification of quantitative precipitation forecasts

H Wernli, M Paulat, M Hagen… - Monthly Weather …, 2008 - journals.ametsoc.org
A novel object-based quality measure, which contains three distinct components that
consider aspects of the structure (S), amplitude (A), and location (L) of the precipitation field …

Cloud-resolving hurricane initialization and prediction through assimilation of Doppler radar observations with an ensemble Kalman filter

F Zhang, Y Weng, JA Sippel, Z Meng… - Monthly Weather …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
This study explores the assimilation of Doppler radar radial velocity observations for cloud-
resolving hurricane analysis, initialization, and prediction with an ensemble Kalman filter …

Four-dimensional variational data assimilation for WRF: Formulation and preliminary results

XY Huang, Q **ao, DM Barker, X Zhang… - Monthly Weather …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model–based variational data
assimilation system (WRF-Var) has been extended from three-to four-dimensional …

Money doesn't grow on trees, but forecasts do: Forecasting extreme precipitation with random forests

GR Herman, RS Schumacher - Monthly Weather Review, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Approximately 11 years of reforecasts from NOAA's Second-Generation Global Ensemble
Forecast System Reforecast (GEFS/R) model are used to train a contiguous United States …

Effects of vertical wind shear on the predictability of tropical cyclones

F Zhang, D Tao - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
Through cloud-resolving simulations, this study examines the effect of vertical wind shear
and system-scale flow asymmetry on the predictability of tropical cyclone (TC) intensity …