High resolution weather modeling in the state of Hawaii
Roe KP, McCord C, Stevens D. 2001. High resolution weather modeling in the state of Hawaii. Pennsylvania State University/ National Center for Atmospheric Research
The Hawaiian Islands contains a variety of microclimates in a very small region. Some islands have rainforests within a few miles of deserts; some have 10,000 feet summits only a few miles away from the coastline. Because of this, weather models must be run at a much finer resolution to accurately predict in these regions. We run MM5 from a coarse 27 km resolution nested down to a 1 km resolution daily. Since the computational requirements are high to accomplish this in a reasonable time frame (as to still be a forecast) we run MM5 in parallel on MHPCC's IBM SP3.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Roe, K; McCord, Carol; Stevens, Duane
- Date of Issue
- 2001
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University/ National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Units
- PACN
- Keywords
- Hawaii Weather and Climate Modeling Ohana (HWCMO), Mesoscale Model 5 (MM5), weather models