Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies

RESEARCH

 

NOAA Strategic Goal 3: Serve Society’s Need for Weather and Water Information

Basic Convective and Mesoscale Research

Other Agency – Adaptive High-Order Methods for Nonhydrostatic Numerical Weather Prediction

Mavriplis (primary – CIMMS at NSSL), Wicker, Williams, Crowell, St.-Cyr, Thomas

Funding Agency: NSF

Objectives
Explore the efficiency of high-order and adaptive formulations for nonhydrostatic equations.

Accomplishments
New students (one MS in meteorology and one PhD in Math) were trained in the basics of FORTRAN programming, numerical techniques (interpolation, quadrature, Legendre polynomials, finite element methods, finite difference methods, and time stepping methods) and participated in an NCAR WRF training workshop in preparation for research on this NSF-funded project. A presentation was made on early stages of this work at the SIAM Geosciences Meeting in March 2007.

This project is ongoing.

Discontinuous Galerkin high-order simulation of the Smolarkiewicz Deformation at T/10.

Discontinuous Galerkin high-order simulation of the Smolarkiewicz (1982) Deformation at T/10.