Weather and Forecasting Research
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John Nielsen-Gammon and Gerry Creager are running the MM5 and WRF models in real-time for high-resolution forecasts of Texas and the US coastal regions along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. The model is being used for air quality and coastal circulation forecasts. |
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Parameter Estimation Fuqing Zhang, John Nielsen-Gammon, and colleagues are using Ensemble Kalman Filtering as a tool to improve the parameterizations of mesoscale meteorological models. By allowing data assimilation to affect the parameters that control the behavior of a parameterization, the model can dynamically adjust its parameterization so that its forecast is more accurate. |
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Storm Structure and Baroclinicity Courtney Schumacher is using disdrometer and radar measurements in Southeast Texas and mesoscale model output to determine the role environmental baroclinicity plays in storm microphysics and divergence profiles. |
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BAMEX Field Experiment Fuqing Zhang and graduate student Dan Hawblitzel participated in the Bow Echo And Mesoscale convective vortex EXperiments (BAMEX) over the Central United States during the summer of 2003. This photo shows the NOAA-P3 "Hurricane Hunter" preparing to visit an extensive line of convection in Ohio and Kentucky. |
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