An initialization procedure for limited-area models for numerical weather prediction
By: Daniel Keyser
Contributors: Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Monterey, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Mathematical models; Numerical weather forecasting
Description: This paper describes a diagnostic objective analysis procedure designed to derive dynamically consistent three-dimensional fields of horizontal wind velocity, geopotential and temperature over limited-area subsynoptic and mesoscale domains. These analyses provide data for initial and boundary conditions for the fine-mesh model tests over the United States and Europe made at Fleet Numerical Weather Central (FNWC) and described by Anthes (1978). Objective analyses are produced on nine standard pressure levels over 70 x 70 unstaggered 60-km Cartesian grids on Lambert conformal map projections covering the United States and western Europe including the western Mediterranean Sea.
Notes: "NPS63-78003"--Cover.

Technical report period: October 1977-September 1978.

"August 1978"--Cover.

Title from cover.

"Prepared for: Chief of Naval Research, Arlington, Virginia 22217."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-64).

"Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited"--Cover.

Technical report; 1978.

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