TY - JOUR
T1 - The North American Monsoon Model Assessment Project
T2 - Integrating numerical modeling into a field-based process study
AU - Gutzler, David S.
AU - Kim, H. K.
AU - Higgins, R. W.
AU - Juang, H. M.H.
AU - Kanamitsu, M.
AU - Mitchell, K.
AU - Mo, K.
AU - Pegion, P.
AU - Ritchie, E.
AU - Schemm, J. K.
AU - Schubert, S.
AU - Song, Y.
AU - Yang, R.
PY - 2005/10
Y1 - 2005/10
N2 - The international North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME) was organized to improve understanding and prediction skill of warm-season precipitation fluctuations in the monsoonal region of southwest North America. Needing to improve its numerical simulation for the monsoon circulation and its large-scale effects, NAME organizers came up with the NAME Model Assessment Project or NAMAP, which is designed to evaluate the warm-season climate modeling before the field campaign and to provide benchmark simulations of warm-season precipitation, and the physical processes that control precipitation. NAMAP was also designed to assess a wide range of dynamical models with different spatial and temporal resolutions, computational domains, and physical parameterizations. The resultant NAMAP analysis includes discussion of monthly mean precipitation, temperature, low-level wind, and surface flux fields, archived to preserve the monthly mean diurnal cycle.
AB - The international North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME) was organized to improve understanding and prediction skill of warm-season precipitation fluctuations in the monsoonal region of southwest North America. Needing to improve its numerical simulation for the monsoon circulation and its large-scale effects, NAME organizers came up with the NAME Model Assessment Project or NAMAP, which is designed to evaluate the warm-season climate modeling before the field campaign and to provide benchmark simulations of warm-season precipitation, and the physical processes that control precipitation. NAMAP was also designed to assess a wide range of dynamical models with different spatial and temporal resolutions, computational domains, and physical parameterizations. The resultant NAMAP analysis includes discussion of monthly mean precipitation, temperature, low-level wind, and surface flux fields, archived to preserve the monthly mean diurnal cycle.
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U2 - 10.1175/BAMS-86-10-1423
DO - 10.1175/BAMS-86-10-1423
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:27844597272
SN - 0003-0007
VL - 86
SP - 1423
EP - 1429
JO - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
JF - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
IS - 10
ER -