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The name 2004 field campaign and modeling strategy
Wayne Higgins,Dave Ahijevych,Jorge A. Amador,Ana P. Barros,E. Hugo Berbery,Ernesto Caetano,Richard E. Carbone,Paul E. Ciesielski,Robert Cifelli,Miguel Cortez-Vazquez,A. Douglas,Michael W. Douglas,Gus Emmanuel,Christopher W. Fairall,David Gochis,David S. Gutzler,Thomas J. Jackson,Richard H. Johnson,C. W. King,Timothy J. Lang,Myong-In Lee,Dennis P. Lettenmaier,Rene Lobato,Víctor Magaña,Jose Meiten,Kingtse C. Mo,Stephen W. Nesbitt,Francisco J. Ocampo-Torres,Erik Pytlak,Peter J. Rogers,Steven A. Rutledge,Jae Schemm,Siegfried D. Schubert,Allen B. White,Christopher R. Williams,Andrew W. Wood,Robert J. Zamora,Chidong Zhang +37 more
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The North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME) as mentioned in this paper is an internationally coordinated process study aimed at determining the sources and limits of predictability of warm-season precipitation over North America, which is used to promote a better understanding and more realistic simulation of convective processes in complex terrain.Abstract:
The North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME) is an internationally coordinated process study aimed at determining the sources and limits of predictability of warm-season precipitation over North America. The scientific objectives of NAME are to promote a better understanding and more realistic simulation of warm-season convective processes in complex terrain, intraseasonal variability of the monsoon, and the response of the warm-season atmospheric circulation and precipitation patterns to slowly varying, potentially predictable surface boundary conditions. During the summer of 2004, the NAME community implemented an international (United States, Mexico, Central America), multiagency (NOAA, NASA, NSF, USDA) field experiment called NAME 2004. This article presents early results from the NAME 2004 campaign and describes how the NAME modeling community will leverage the NAME 2004 data to accelerate improvements in warm-season precipitation forecasts for North America.read more
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