In the last few years, NCAR and the Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) have jointly developed a real-time rapid-cycling FDDA and forecast (RTFDDA) system. This MM5-based system has been deployed and is running operationally at five Army testing ranges. The ATEC RTFDDA data assimilation procedure was developed based on the observation-nudging scheme in the standard MM5 (Stauffer and Seaman ...

Papers published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions are under open-access review for the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Abstract A multi-layer land surface model (SOLVEG) is dynamically coupled to the non-hydrostatic atmospheric model (MM5) in order to represent better spatial variations and changes in land surface characteristics compared with the land surface para...

In this study, fog simulations were conducted using the Fifth-Generation NCAR/Penn State Mesoscale Model (MM5) in and around the Yodo River Basin, Japan. The purpose is to investigate the MM5 performance of fog simulation for long-term periods. The simulations were performed for January, February, March, and July, 2005 with a coarse 3-km and a nested fine 1-km grid domains. Results of the simul...

We investigate the impact of bugs in a well-known weather simulation system, MM5. The findings help fill a gap in knowledge about the dependability of this widely used system, leading to both new understanding and further questions. In the research reported here, bugs were artificially added to MM5. Their effects were analyzed to statistically understand the effects of bugs on MM5. In one analy...

Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) imaging is a well established technique to derive useful products for several land applications. One of the major limitations of InSAR is due to atmospheric effects, and in particular to high water vapor variability. In this work, we make an experimental analysis to research the capability of Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models as MM5 to produce high resol...

Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) imaging is a well established technique to derive useful products for several land applications. One of the major limitations of InSAR is due to atmospheric effects, and in particular to high water vapor variability. In this work we make an experimental analysis to research the capability of Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models as MM5 to produce high resolu...

[1] Four regional climate models (RegCM2, MM5/BATS, MM5/SHEELS, and MM5/OSU) were intercompared on a fairly small domain covering a relatively homogenous area in Kansas, United States, including the First International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project (SLSCP) Field Experiment (FIFE) site. The models were integrated for a 2-year period covering 1987 and 1988. The model results are eval...

A refined land cover classification for the arid Phoenix (Arizona, USA) metropolitan area and some simple modifications to the surface energetics were introduced in the fifth-generation PSU/NCAR mesoscale meteorological model MM5. The single urban category in the existing 24-category United States Geological Survey (USGS) land cover classification used in MM5 was divided into three classes to a...

This paper analyses the predictive ability of quantitative precipitation forecasts (QPF) and the so-called “poorman” rainfall probabilistic forecasts (RPF). With this aim, the full set of warnings issued by the Meteorological Service of Catalonia (SMC) for potentially-dangerous events due to severe precipitation has been analysed for the year 2008. For each of the 37 warnings, the QPFs obtained...

CHIMERE is a chemical transport model widely used within the air quality scientific community. The actual version of CHIMERE is coupled with the MM5 mesoscale meteorological model. To facilitate model development, MM5 is replaced here with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. With the accuracy of air quality models being highly dependent on the quality of meteorological drivers, th...