A numerical forecasting model for operational use in the tropics /
Louis Berkofsky.

Description

Main Author

Berkofsky, Louis.

Related Names

Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.)

Language(s)

English

Published

L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts : Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force, 1974

Subjects

Meteorology.
Atmospheric models.
Tropics.
Weather forecasting.
Numerical analysis.

Summary

In the present study, the author derives the equations for a model for operational forecasting in the tropics. A vertically integrated boundary layer model is used, together with a multilevel free air model, and and it is assumed that their interface represents cumulus cloud bases. Whenever the model predicts the existence of cumulus clouds (conditional instability, saturation, upward vertical velocity at the top of the boundary layer), a system of cloud equations is solved in order to calculate the latent heating, evaporation, and divergence of eddy heat flux effects on the free air motions.

Note

"16 August 1974."

Physical Description

51 pages: illustrations ; 28 cm.

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