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RAMS 2001: Current status and future directions

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¶An overview of the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) is presented. We focus on new developments in the RAMS physics and computational algorithms since 1992. We also summarize some of the recent applications of RAMS that includes synoptic-scale weather systems and climate studies, to small-scale research using RAMS configured as a large eddy simulation model or to even flow around urban buildings. The applications include basic research on clouds, cloud systems, and storms, examination of interactions between tropical deep convective systems and ocean circulations, simulations of tropical cyclones, extreme precipitation estimation, regional climatic studies of the interactions between the atmosphere and the biosphere or snow-covered land-surfaces, prototype realtime mesoscale numerical weather prediction, air pollution applications, and airflow around buildings.

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  1. Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, , , , ,

    W. R. Cotton, R. A. Pielke Sr., G. E. Liston, H. Jiang, R. L. McAnelly, M. E. Nicholls , G. G. Carrio & J. P. McFadden

  2. Mission Research Corp./ASTeR Div., Fort Collins, CO, , , , ,

    R. L. Walko & C. J. Tremback

  3. Department of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, , , , ,

    J. Y. Harrington

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  1. W. R. Cotton
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  2. R. A. Pielke Sr.
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Received March 12, 2001; revised August 28, 2001

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Cotton, W., Pielke Sr., R., Walko, R. et al. RAMS 2001: Current status and future directions. Meteorol Atmos Phys 82, 5–29 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00703-001-0584-9

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