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Dr. Dev Niyogi and Becky Eager
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Project: Land-Surface Modeling and Verification - China
Project Description:
Collaboration with Chinese researchers to utilize data collected
in China (e.g., TIPEX and HEIPEX AND GAME) to improve the
representation of land atmosphere interactions in WRF
for various climate and ecosystems.
Goals:
-Verify and improve the WRF/LSM coupled system on a global scale using field data collected over China.
-Establish interactions with chinese meteorological research community.
-Acquire knowledge on the next generation Chinese numerical weather prediction model (named as GRAPES)
-Establish professional relationships among young scientists, including students, in US and in China.
Student Trip Reports - Richard Palmieri
- Student Experience
- Joint IUM/NCAR Workshop on Urban Meteorology: Observing and Modeling
Principal Investigators:
- Dr. Dev Niyogi (PI) NCSU
- Dr. Fei Chen
International Collaborator
- Dr. Dehui Chen (Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences)
Graduate Students
- Becky Eager
- Richard Palmieri
- Aneela Qureshi
Research Highlights
A few important facts from the Chinese TIPEX field experiments:
- Frequent daytime temperature inversion layer with the
boundary layer
- Strong solar radiation. The surface global shortwave
radiation often exceed the solar constant.
- Imbalance in surface energy fluxes. Also confirmed in
GAME field observation.
- Formation of low clouds in the boundary layer.
One important scientific objective is to investigate
the extent to which WRF is able to represent these
important physical processes.
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