CONTACT INFORMATION
Name: Jack Kain Street address: 1313 Halley Circle City: Norman State, Zip: OK, 73069 Phone (w/ extension): 405-579-8800 E-Mail: kain@nssl.noaa.gov Today's Date: 04/11/2002
INFORMATION ABOUT THE RESOURCE
Author: Jack Kain
New or revised entry in the catalogue? New
Date of creation or latest revision: 4/11/2002
Title: Convective Parameterization in NWP Models
DESCRIPTION
This training is related to:
Meteorology
COMAP or other training facility's course
Research paper
This training is intended for:
Small group study
Convection
Topics:
Mesoscale Phenomena/Dynamics
NWP
QPF/QPE
Subject of the material:
1) Provides a brief overview of the reasons why convection must be parameterized in NWP models and a survey of different approaches to the parameterization problem. 2) Provides a description of the Betts-Miller-Janjic convective scheme and its general operating principles. Provides several examples showing how this scheme can modify model soundings, strongly affecting CAPE and CIN values in model soundings. 3) Provides a very brief description of the Kain-Fritsch convective scheme and describes one of its unique output fields, the parameterized updraft mass flux.
Location(s):
Generic
Format(s):
PowerPoint Slides
Length or estimated time for completion: 90 minutes
Additional Information:
suggested reading materials available on the web: http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/mag/bmj_paper_all.pdf and http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/mag/UMF_paper.pdf
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