Cloud Forecasts from NWP and Climate Models
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Meteorology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2020) | Viewed by 3368
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Clouds play critical roles in a host of meteorological and climate applications. The accurate analyses and forecasts of clouds by NWP models are important to air quality managers, in the economic use of power generated by solar energy resources, and in aviation safety. In addition, the accurate prediction of cloud fields is critical to climate change studies. Differences in the treatments of clouds between climate models have been identified as the largest source of uncertainty in the prediction of the future mean temperature of the Earth. However, the accuracy of cloud cover model parameters, including the elemental parameter of cloud cover fraction, is seldom addressed in the literature. Therefore, the purpose of this Special Issue is to solicit and document the state of advancements in the analysis of clouds in reanalyses datasets used in cloud simulations, the treatment of clouds in NWP and climate models, the sources of truth data for cloud cover fraction and cloud microphysical properties, the accuracy of cloud analyses in simulation datasets, and the accuracy of forecast products based upon these datasets, as well as to provide an assessment of the technological shortfalls that must be overcome in order to achieve future gains in the prediction of cloud fields with NWP and climate models.
Dr. Keith D. Hutchison
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- clouds
- analyses
- model predictions
- NWP models
- climate models
- cloud optical parameters
- cloud cover fraction
