TY - GEN
T1 - Climatologies based on the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model
AU - Vandenberghe, Francois
AU - Barlage, Mike
AU - Swerdlin, Scott
AU - Gardiner, Judith
AU - Krishnamurthy, Ashok
AU - Chalker, Alan
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Because tests at Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) ranges can often only be conducted under specific atmospheric conditions, climatologies of each range could be a very useful tool for long-range test planning. Such datasets can provide the probability density function of near-surface wind speed, percent cloud cover, temperature, precipitation, turbulence intensity, upper-atmospheric wind speed, etc., as a function of the month of the year, time of day, and location on the range. The STAR Institute with guidance from the Ohio Supercomputer Center is working on porting the Climate Four Dimensional Data Assimilation (CFDDA) technology developed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research to version 3 of the Weather and Research Forecast (WRF) model for use on systems within the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Prograf m. The fully parallelized WRF-CFDDA system uses data-assimilation by Newtonian relaxation, to generate a regional reanalysis that is consistent with both observations and model dynamics for every hour of the past 20 years, at fine scales (3 km grid) over the Dugway Proving Ground range.
AB - Because tests at Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) ranges can often only be conducted under specific atmospheric conditions, climatologies of each range could be a very useful tool for long-range test planning. Such datasets can provide the probability density function of near-surface wind speed, percent cloud cover, temperature, precipitation, turbulence intensity, upper-atmospheric wind speed, etc., as a function of the month of the year, time of day, and location on the range. The STAR Institute with guidance from the Ohio Supercomputer Center is working on porting the Climate Four Dimensional Data Assimilation (CFDDA) technology developed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research to version 3 of the Weather and Research Forecast (WRF) model for use on systems within the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Prograf m. The fully parallelized WRF-CFDDA system uses data-assimilation by Newtonian relaxation, to generate a regional reanalysis that is consistent with both observations and model dynamics for every hour of the past 20 years, at fine scales (3 km grid) over the Dugway Proving Ground range.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/79953149479
U2 - 10.1109/HPCMP-UGC.2009.41
DO - 10.1109/HPCMP-UGC.2009.41
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79953149479
SN - 9780769539461
T3 - Department of Defense Proceedings of the High Performance Computing Modernization Program - Users Group Conference, HPCMP-UGC 2009
SP - 249
EP - 253
BT - Department of Defense Proceedings of the High Performance Computing Modernization Program - Users Group Conference, HPCMP-UGC 2009
T2 - 2009 DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program - Users Group Conference, HPCMP-UGC 2009
Y2 - 15 June 2009 through 18 June 2009
ER -