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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"MM5"”.
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Forecasting the nighttime evolution of radio wave ducting in complex terrain using the MM5 numerical weather model
… Research Fifth Generation Mesoscale Model (MM5) simulates atmospheric conditions around the mountainous, desert terrain near Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada for five forecast periods during the summer and fall of 2002. The extent of ducting regions predicted by the model and the mechanisms …
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Passive millimeter-wave retrieval of global precipitation utilizing satellites and a numerical weather prediction model
This thesis develops and validates the MM5/TBSCAT/F([lambda]) model, composed of a mesoscale numerical weather prediction (NWP) model (MM5), a two-stream radiative transfer model (TBSCAT), and electromagnetic models for icy hydrometeors (F([lambda])), to be used as a global precipitation …
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Investigation of surface inhomogeneity and estimation of the GOES skin temperature assimilation errors of the MM5 implied by the inhomogeneity over Houston metropolitan area
… skin temperature assimilation technique into the MM5 over the Houston metropolitan area (HOU). In order to investigate the surface inhomogeneity impacts on the surface fluxes and PBL variables over HOU, homo- and inhomogeneous 1-d PBL model simulations were performed over HOU and compared to each …
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Improvement of MM5 Model Forecast by Ingesting Newly Archived Satellite Data and Estimation of Forest Fire Emissions Contribution to Ozone Peaks Using CMAQ Modeling System
… for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Mesoscale Model (MM5) was used to prepare meteorological data for the Models-3/Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system to simulate air quality in the context of atmospheric chemistry. The three topics addressed were (1) the assimilation of a newly …
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Bioinformatics pipeline development for analyses of data generated by target capture-based Next-Generation Sequencing, to characterise mutations and the utility of using off-target sequences to detect genomic imbalances in Multiple Myeloma patients.
… sex chromosome differences (I.e., MM1/MM3-MM5=XY, MM2/MM6=XX) and autosomal CNAs in MM3/MM5 (I.e. MM3=+1q/positive-control, del(6q), del(13q; MM5=+1q, +6p, del(6q), del(8p), +9, del(14q)), +18 centromere, +19q)). Many of these are recurrent MM-associated CNAs conferring …
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An observational and modeling study of a heavy orographic precipitation event over the Oregon Cascades
… Generation Penn State/NCAR Mesoscale Model (MM5) version 3.5 was run at various resolutions to simulate the 13--14 December 2001 system and verified against the vast observational dataset. The MM5's depiction of the synoptic features of the storm system was sufficiently accurate to permit …
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Atmospheric controls on soil moisture-boundary layer interactions
… Penn State/NCAR Mesoscale Model (MM5) show a small but significant positive soil moisture-rainfall feedback in Illinois. This is consistent with an analysis of the distribution of early morning sounding values of CTP and Hi low from Illinois, though wind effects important in the …
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Numerical simulation of a mesoscale convective system over the east coast of South Africa
… with a non-hydrostatic numerical model (MM5) to help determine which processes were important in its initiation and development, as well as what factors contributed to the associated heavy rainfall. The model is also used to conduct sensitivity tests to determine the role that local …
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Solarstrahlungsvorhersage auf der Basis numerischer Wettermodelle
… Dazu wurde das mesoskalige Modell MM5 systematisch auf die Verwendbarkeit zur Strahlungsmodellierung analysiert. Des Weiteren wurde eine im Vergleich dazu besser geeignete Vorhersage der Solarstrahlung vom europäischen Wetterdienst (ECMWF) in Bezug auf die Anwendung optimiert. Die …
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The Role of Upstream Lakes in Determining Downstream Severe Lake -Effect Snowstorms
… successfully modeled using the Penn State/NCAR MM5 model at 7 km grid resolution. Another simulation performed with Lake Michigan removed from the domain resulted in a two-thirds reduction in snowfall maxima, reduced vertical ascent (50% smaller maxima), and cloud depth (50--100 mb in vertical …
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Sea surface temperature anomalies in the South Indian ocean : observations and atmospheric modelling
… Africa to this phenomenon, this study uses the MM5 regional climate model in which the model is forced with a warm pole SST anomaly south of Madagascar.
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Flash Flooding in Eastern Kentucky: An Analysis of the 3-4 August 2001 Event
… model is the Penn State/ NCAR Mesoscale Model MM5. This model consists of several options allowing for variations in climate and terrain. MM5 was used to simulate the 3-4 August 2001 flash flood event, since upper air data does not exist for Eastern Kentucky. The model used for this paper …
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Modelado de alta resolución para el estudio de la respuesta oceánica al forzamiento del viento en el Estrecho de Gibraltar
… ello, se ha implementado el modelo atmosférico MM5 de área limitada no hidrostático, el cual provee el campo de viento a alta resolución al modelo hidrodinámico, bicapa, bidimensional, no-lineal UCA2.5D, que utiliza coordenadas curvilíneas ajustadas a los contornos y que incluye el forzamiento …
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Mesoscale wind atlas of South Africa
This thesis explores the utility of the MM5 regional climate model iii product big a detailed wind climatology for South Africa in the context of wind power applications. Given the background of limited available computational resources a sophisticated temporal subsetting algorithm is developed and …
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Mesoscale Wind Atlas of South Africa
This thesis explores the utility of the MM5 regional climate model iii product big a detailed wind climatology for South Africa in the context of wind power applications. Given the background of limited available computational resources a sophisticated temporal subsetting algorithm is developed and …
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Sistema integrado para la modelización y el análisis de la calidad del aire en modo operacional
… el presente trabajo se han integrado los modelos MM5 (PSU/NCAR, USA), EMIMO (EMision MOdel, UPM, España) y CMAQ (Community Multiscale Air Quality modelling system, EPA, USA) El proceso de integración ha requerido la investigación y desarrollo de una serie de módulos de adaptación, dirigidos …
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Numerical Studies of Synoptic and Mesoscale Environments Conducive to Heavy Rainfall in Tropical and Extratropical Systems
… confluence, enhancing the upward motion. MM5 simulations for both events revealed coupled thermally direct and thermally indirect circulations over the low-level confluence zone with their rising branches coupled over the zone, proving the hypothesis. Simulations of Floyd's extratropical …
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A physical model to estimate snowfall over land using microwave measurements
… diameter, supercooled water, and water vapor. A MM5 cloud simulation was used to provide useful statistics for generating those cloud characteristics. The snow cloud profiles and surface emissivities were then used in radiative transfer calculations that were optimized against AMSU-B observations …
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Atmospheric dispersion modelling of particulate and gaseous pollutants affecting the trans-Manche region
… from the PSU/NCAR Mesoscale model (known as MM5), or datasets from the European Centre of Medium-range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) are used to drive the dispersion models. Linkage routines were developed to interpret the LPD codes with the required meteorological information. This study aims to …
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Observations, dynamics and predictability of the mesoscale convective vortex event of 10-13 June 2003
… ensemble of 20 forecasts using mesoscale model MM5 with horizontal grid increments of 10 km are employed to evaluate probabilistically the dynamics and predictability of the MCV through the examination of the ensemble spread as well as the correlations between different forecast variables among …
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