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The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model is a next-generation mesocale numerical weather prediction system designed to serve both operational forecasting and atmospheric research needs.

Events: Next 2 Weeks

Seminar
When: Tuesday, 16 February 2010, at 3:30 pm
Location: FL2 Auditorium (1022)
Towards Improving and Unifying Vapor Diffusional Growth of Ice in Cloud Models
Jerry Harrington, (Penn State University)

Seminar
When: Thursday, 18 February 2010, at 3:30 pm
Location: FL2 Auditorium (1022)
The 8 May 2009 "Super Derecho": A Land Huricane?
Morris Weisman, (NCAR/MMM)

Seminar
When: Friday, 19 February 2010, at 3:30 pm
Location: ML Main Seminar
Low Clouds and Climate Change
Amy Clement, (U of Miami) - Speaker's Homepage

Workshop
When: Monday, 22 February 2010, at 8:30 am to 26 February 2010
Location: FL2 Auditorium (1022)
The EMC/MMM/DTC Joint Hurricane Workshop and WRF Tutorial for Hurricanes

Seminar
When: Tuesday, 23 February 2010, at 3:30 pm
Location: ML Main Seminar
CCSM4 - A Flexible New Infrastructure for Earth System Modeling
Mariana Vertenstein, (CGD, NCAR) - Speaker's Homepage

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NESL in the News

The 2010 NCAR Annual Report has just been published and is available online here. The NESL (ESSL) laboratory's annual report may be found here. More...

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Recent NESL Publications

Lauritzen, P. Hjort., C. Jablonowski, M. A. Taylor, et al, 2009: Rotated versions of the Jablonowski steady-state and baroclinic wave test cases: A dynamical core intercomparison. , 41 pp.

Lauritzen, P. Hjort., R. D. Nair, P. A. Ullrich, 2009: A conservative semi-Lagrangian multi-tracer transport scheme (CSLAM) on the cubed-sphere grid. J. Comput. Phys., doi: 10.1016/j.jcp.2009.10.036.

Jiang, J. H., H. Su, S. T. Massie, et al, 2009: Aerosol-CO relationship and aerosol effect on ice cloud particle size: Analyses from Aura Microwave Limb Sounder and Aqua Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer observations. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos., 114, D20207, doi: 10.1029/2009JD012421.

Khosravi, R., A. Lambert, H. Lee, et al, 2009: Overview and characterization of retrievals of temperature, pressure, and atmospheric constituents from the High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS) measurements. J. Geophys. Res., 114, D20304, doi: 10.1029/2009JD011937.

Lin, C., H. Hsu, Y. H. Lee, et al, 2009: A new transport mechanism of biomass burning from Indochina as identified by modeling studies. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 7901-7911.

NESL Research Topics

  • Science of Weather Prediction
  • Global Atmospheric Dynamics
  • Physical Meteorology
  • Atmospheric Photochemistry
  • Oceanography and Cryosphere
  • Land Biophysics and Biogeochemistry
  • Experimental Meteorology
  • Solar Interior and Variability
  • Solar Atmosphere
  • Space Weather and Upper Atmosphere
  • Earth's Middle Atmosphere
  • Atmospheric Radiation and Remote Sensing
  • Climate System and Climate Change
  • Paleo-Climatology
  • Global Water System
  • Regional Climate

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