Through a collaborative partnership, principally among NCAR, NOAA, DoD, OU/CAPS, FAA, and universities, the U.S. modeling community is developing a next-generation mesoscale model, known as the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. The goals of the WRF project are to develop an advanced mesoscale forecast and data assimilation system and to accelerate research advances into operations. ...

The long-term goal is to extend our predictive skill for mesoscale meteorology and to use that meteorology to improve prediction for the transport of aerosols and gases. We recognize the need of the Navy to have predictions of mesoscale weather for operations, of tropospheric aerosol conditions for both operations and weapons systems, and of Chemical and Biological Weapons (CBW) conditions for ...

Atomistic simulations of cementitious material can enrich our understanding of its structural and mechanical properties, whereas current computational capacities restrict the investigation length scale within 10 nm. In this context, coarse-grained simulations can translate the information from nanoscale to mesoscale, thus bridging the multi-scale investigations. Here, we develop a coarse-graine...

Recent advances in brain imaging techniques, measurement approaches, and storage capacities have provided an unprecedented supply of high temporal resolution neural data. These data present a remarkable opportunity to gain a mechanistic understanding not just of circuit structure, but also of circuit dynamics, and its role in cognition and disease. Such understanding necessitates a description ...

Describing urban terrain and land use/land cover (LULC) characteristics accurately is an essential element in environmental modeling, assessment and management. Urban terrain and LULC information are especially important in meteorological modeling applications, such as simulations of atmospheric flow over cities, defining surface energy budgets, and fate and transport studies of urban contamina...

The manufacturing of systems at the mesoscale on order millimeters to centimeters is costly and challenging. To simplify development process, finite element method (FEM) can be used compare evaluate different design variations an early stage. This also allows for gaining a more precise understanding system's behavior. In robotic applications it torque that greatest interest as sufficiently high...

Mesoscale air quality under stagnant synoptic cold season conditions in the Lake Powell area is characterized through climatological, topographical and numerical studies. Using a synoptic climatological classification scheme, it is found that during the winter this region is dominated by stagnant conditions associated with slow-moving high pressure systems. Using topographic analyses, the Lake ...