Numerical Modeling of Middle and High Level Clouds with the Colorado State University Regional Atmospheric Modeling System-RAMS.

摘要

Research supported on this grant has focused on cirrus clouds. The report includes the analysis of data collected during the FIRE cirrus experiment, refinement of the microphysics of RAMS for cirrus cloud simulations, development of cirrus radiation theory and parameterizations, and performing mesoscale simulations of cirrus clouds. The simulations demonstrated that RAMS has the ability to simulate many observed features of cirrus clouds including multiple layering, cirrus generation zones, and the growth and dissipation of cirrus for specific cases. The results suggest that RAMS may be suitable for numerical forecasting of cirrus clouds.