parameterisation

Courses tagged with "parameterisation"

Cloud and precipitation parametrization 2: ice and mixed-phase microphysics

This lesson covers key processes in ice and mixed-phase clouds and precipitation, and parametrization uncertainties.

Level: Others
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What you'll learn:

  • An overview of key microphysical processes for ice and mixed-phase cloud and precipitation in the atmosphere.
  • How to recognise the important ice and mixed-phase microphysical processes that need to be parameterised in a numerical weather prediction model.
  • The complexities of ice and mixed-phase microphysical processes, and uncertainties in their parameterisation.
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Cloud and precipitation parametrization 1: overview and warm-phase microphysics

Explore the key microphysical and warm-phase processes of cloud and precipitation parametrisation and their use in NWP.

Level: Others
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What you'll learn:

  • Basic concepts for the design of a cloud and precipitation microphysics parameterisation.
  • Key microphysical processes for warm phase cloud and precipitation in the atmosphere.
  • Which warm phase microphysical processes need to be parameterised in a numerical weather prediction model.
Estimated duration: 30 minutes
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Parametrisation of diabatic processes - case studies (convection)

Four case studies exploring the conditions that cause deep convection, considering predictability and forecast errors.

Level: Others
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What you'll learn:

  • The upper and lower-level flow conditions that favour deep convection
  • Translating weather maps in situations of deep convection
  • How to identify convective features and areas with potential predictability and forecast errors
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Introduction to the parametrization of sub-grid processes

Learn how sub-grid-scale processes (not explicitly simulated in NWP), are parameterised and how challenges are overcome.

Level: Fundamentals
Certification course: No
What you'll learn:

  • What parameterisation is and why it is needed
  • Methods and strategies for parameterisation
  • The role of parameterisation schemes in forecasting products
  • Examples of parameterisation, and sources of uncertainty
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An introduction to single-column modelling

How SCM is used to investigate the physical processes of a global model in isolation, its applications and limitations.

Level: Others
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What you'll learn:

  • What single column models are and how they are applied
  • How to run a single column model, including data requirements
  • Practical examples of SCMs
  • Advantages and disadvantages of SCMs
Estimated duration: 30 minutes
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Sources of Uncertainty

Learn about uncertainties and chaotic behaviour in NWP, why ensembles are needed and how they are used at ECMWF.

Level: Fundamentals
Certification course: No
What you'll learn:

  • Sources of forecast uncertainty and chaotic behaviour
  • Ensembles as a tool for capturing uncertainty and probabilistic prediction
  • ECMWF model setup, initial conditions
Estimated duration: 40 minutes
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Parametrisation of diabatic processes - Convection in the context of large-scale circulation

This lesson will take you through what convection is and the phenomena it causes.

Level: Others
Certification course: No
What you'll learn:

  • The importance of convection in global energy and water balance.
  • Meteorological phenomena generated by convection.
  • About buoyancy and the parcel or plume method
  • About large scale effects of convection
  • About convectively coupled waves
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Parametrization of diabatic processes - The mass-flux approach and the IFS scheme

This lesson looks at the three classes of parametrization schemes and the main characteristics of the IFS scheme.

Level: Others
Certification course: No
What you'll learn:

  • What parameterisation schemes for convection are, and the main aims.
  • The three main parameterisation schemes used for convection:
    • Those based on moisture budgets
    • Adjustment schemes
    • Mass-flux schemes
  • The convection scheme used in ECMWF's Integrated Forecasting System (IFS)
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Introduction to Cloud Parametrisation

An introduction to the basic concepts for the design of a cloud and precipitation microphysics parametrisation.

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What you'll learn:

  • Aspects of a cloud and precipitation parameterisation
  • Processes affecting clouds
  • Components and examples of microphysics parameterisation schemes
Estimated duration: 15 minutes
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