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Development of the new Conformal-Cubic Atmospheric Model (CCAM) in capturing the past season’s major rain events

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dc.contributor.author Park, R
dc.date.accessioned 2010-09-02T11:11:49Z
dc.date.available 2010-09-02T11:11:49Z
dc.date.issued 2010-09-01
dc.identifier.citation Park, R. 2010. Development of the new Conformal-Cubic Atmospheric Model (CCAM) in capturing the past season’s major rain events. CSIR 3rd Biennial Conference 2010. Science Real and Relevant. CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa, 30 August – 01 September 2010, pp 1 en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4309
dc.description CSIR 3rd Biennial Conference 2010. Science Real and Relevant. CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa, 30 August – 01 September 2010 en
dc.description.abstract The Atmospheric Modelling Strategic Initiative is a new initiative at the CSIR, and has only begun producing daily forecasts for southern Africa (and the Southern Africa Development Community – SADC) as of January 2010. These forecasts are currently being made for rainfall, maximum and minimum temperatures, and wind fields using the new Conformal- Cubic Atmospheric Model (CCAM). This model has been adapted and developed since its initialisation, increasing its weather prediction capability in order to produce more reliable forecasts. The CCAM has been integrated from coarse resolution (200 km) to a much higher resolution (15 km), and this has resulted in considerably more specific and accurate forecasts. In the past March-April-May season there have occurred several major rain events over southern Africa, which the model was able to capture; and depending on how developed the model was (and how high the resolution of the model was at that time), it predicted these events at varying degrees of accuracy. This poster illustrates the progression of the model’s development by analysing its prediction performance from the initial coarse resolution to the current fine resolution. This will be done by comparing the output 4-day rainfall forecasts of the two different resolutions to the real-time satellite images of those four days. The satellite images show the cloud bands of specific rainfall events that took place during March, April and May 2010 – the most recent season. It will be highlighted that the output forecasts have become progressively more specific and defined in area, and more accurate in predicting rainfall and intensity of rainfall, and this improvement is a result of the recent model developments en
dc.language.iso en en
dc.publisher CSIR en
dc.subject Conformal cubic atmospheric model en
dc.subject CCAM en
dc.subject Rain events en
dc.subject Atmospheric modelling en
dc.subject Atmospheric modelling strategic initiative en
dc.subject CSIR Conference 2010 en
dc.title Development of the new Conformal-Cubic Atmospheric Model (CCAM) in capturing the past season’s major rain events en
dc.type Conference Presentation en
dc.identifier.apacitation Park, R. (2010). Development of the new Conformal-Cubic Atmospheric Model (CCAM) in capturing the past season’s major rain events. CSIR. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4309 en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitation Park, R. "Development of the new Conformal-Cubic Atmospheric Model (CCAM) in capturing the past season’s major rain events." (2010): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4309 en_ZA
dc.identifier.vancouvercitation Park R, Development of the new Conformal-Cubic Atmospheric Model (CCAM) in capturing the past season’s major rain events; CSIR; 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4309 . en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Conference Presentation AU - Park, R AB - The Atmospheric Modelling Strategic Initiative is a new initiative at the CSIR, and has only begun producing daily forecasts for southern Africa (and the Southern Africa Development Community – SADC) as of January 2010. These forecasts are currently being made for rainfall, maximum and minimum temperatures, and wind fields using the new Conformal- Cubic Atmospheric Model (CCAM). This model has been adapted and developed since its initialisation, increasing its weather prediction capability in order to produce more reliable forecasts. The CCAM has been integrated from coarse resolution (200 km) to a much higher resolution (15 km), and this has resulted in considerably more specific and accurate forecasts. In the past March-April-May season there have occurred several major rain events over southern Africa, which the model was able to capture; and depending on how developed the model was (and how high the resolution of the model was at that time), it predicted these events at varying degrees of accuracy. This poster illustrates the progression of the model’s development by analysing its prediction performance from the initial coarse resolution to the current fine resolution. This will be done by comparing the output 4-day rainfall forecasts of the two different resolutions to the real-time satellite images of those four days. The satellite images show the cloud bands of specific rainfall events that took place during March, April and May 2010 – the most recent season. It will be highlighted that the output forecasts have become progressively more specific and defined in area, and more accurate in predicting rainfall and intensity of rainfall, and this improvement is a result of the recent model developments DA - 2010-09-01 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Conformal cubic atmospheric model KW - CCAM KW - Rain events KW - Atmospheric modelling KW - Atmospheric modelling strategic initiative KW - CSIR Conference 2010 LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2010 T1 - Development of the new Conformal-Cubic Atmospheric Model (CCAM) in capturing the past season’s major rain events TI - Development of the new Conformal-Cubic Atmospheric Model (CCAM) in capturing the past season’s major rain events UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4309 ER - en_ZA


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