Synoptic variability of low-cloud properties, temperature advection, and thermodynamic soundings of the trade wind boundary layer are analyzed, using the long data record from ocean weather station November (308N, 1408W). The variations in low-cloud amount at this subtropical site are most strongly correlated with variations in temperature advection, the stability of the lower troposphere, and ...

The Ctadel code generator is a tool for the automatic generation of PDE based scientiic models and generates eecient code for various computational platforms from an independent high level language description. It was applied for the generation of code to compute the dynamical tendencies within the Hirlam weather forecast model. In this paper we will use Ctadel for the implementation of numeric...

BACKGROUND Patients frequently report that weather changes trigger headache or worsen existing headache symptoms. Recently, the method of empirical mode decomposition (EMD) has been used to delineate temporal relationships in certain diseases, and we applied this technique to identify intrinsic weather components associated with headache incidence data derived from a large-scale epidemiological...

Adaptive mesh refinement techniques offer a flexible framework for future variable-resolution climate and weather models since they can focus their computational mesh on certain geographical areas or atmospheric events. Adaptive meshes can also be used to coarsen a latitude-longitude grid in polar regions. This allows for the so-called reduced grid setups. A spherical, block-structured adaptive...

Synoptic variations of atmospheric CO2 produced by interactions between weather and surface fluxes are investigated mechanistically and quantitatively in midlatitude and tropical regions using continuous in-situ CO2 observations in North America, South America and Europe and forward chemical transport model simulations with the Parameterized Chemistry Transport Model. Frontal CO2 climatologies ...

A hardware-based approach for visualizing unsteady flow fields by means of Lagrangian-Eulerian advection is presented. The implementation allows texture advection to be performed completely on the graphics hardware in a single-pass rendering. We discuss experiences with the interactive visualization of unsteady flow fields that become possible due to the high visualization speed of the hardware...

Technological developments and the trend to go higher and higher in frequency give rise to the need for true space–time rain field models for testing the dynamics of fade countermeasures. There are many models that capture the spatial correlation of rain fields. Worth mentioning are those models based on cell ensembles. However, the rain rate fields created in this way need the introduction of ...

Computer-based forecasting of weather was first experimented in 1950 at Princeton University. Since then, there have been newer and more accurate methods to predict the incoming climate. One common practice of weather prediction is by using the general circulation models which are based on the laws of physics (J.M.Moran & M.D.Morgan 1986). These models are highly complex and computational inten...

introduction: evaporation and evapotranspiration are two major components of hydrological cycle which are very important for agricultural studies as well as water resources management. so far, various methods have been addressed for the estimation of daily reference crop evapotranspiration (et0). among them, fao penman-montieth 56 (pmf-56) (allen et al., 1998) is widely used as a standard metho...