[Grad-postdoc-assn] ASP seminar next Wednesday (13 May) by Saulo Freitas from INPE/NOAA
Pablo Saide
saide at ucar.edu
Fri May 8 12:27:24 MDT 2015
Hi all,
The next ASP seminar by Saulo Freitas (INPE/NOAA) will take place on
next Wed. (13 May) at 11:00 am in Foothills Lab Bldg. 2, Large
Auditorium (FL2-1022), and will be followed by lunch with the speaker in
the FL cafeteria.
Here are detailed information about his seminar. See also the poster
attached. Hope to see you all there!
Title:
Model developments related to some South America environmental problems
Abstract:
Tropical areas over South America have faced severe environmental
changes associated with the rapid economic expansion, such as
deforestation and fire activities over the Amazon basin and cerrado
areas and a sustained growing demographic density around large- and mega
cities.
In this talk, we will show some aspects of model developments we have
been working in Brazil in order to build a numerical tool able to
simulate and forecast atmospheric state evolution that includes such
processes. These developments are the base of the BRAMS model (Brazilian
development on the Regional Atmospheric modeling System, RAMS) and, some
of them, were implemented in WRF-Chem. BRAMS model has been used
operationally at the Brazilian Center for Weather Forecast (CPTEC/INPE)
since 2003 providing an on-line, coupled weather and air quality
forecast on a 20 km grid-spacing and, more recently, since 2013, for
weather forecast on 5 km covering the entire South America. BRAMS has
also been broadly used for applications mainly over South America, with
strong emphasis over the Amazonia and the main South American mega
cities. An overview of the model development and main applications will
be shown.
We will also use this opportunity to introduce some results of a project
initiate in 2013 by the Working Group on Numerical Experimentation
(WGNE). WGNE is supported by the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee and the
WMO Commission for Atmospheric Sciences. This project has eight
participating NWP centers: NCEP, ECMWF, NASA/Goddard, Japan Meteo
Agency, Meteo-France, ESRL/NOAA, Barcelona Supercomputer Center and
CPTEC/INPE, and aims to evaluate aerosols impacts on numerical weather
prediction conducted by these centers.
Pablo Saide
on behalf of ASP seminar committee.
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