Challenges and outlook for convection-permitting climate modelling

EJ Kendon, AF Prein, CA Senior… - … Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Climate projections at very high resolution (kilometre-scale grid spacing) are becoming
affordable. These 'convection-permitting'models (CPMs), commonly used for weather …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change in the High Mountain Asia in CMIP6

M Lalande, M Ménégoz, G Krinner… - Earth system …, 2021 - esd.copernicus.org
Abstract Climate change over High Mountain Asia (HMA, including the Tibetan Plateau) is
investigated over the period 1979–2014 and in future projections following the four Shared …

Understanding thermally driven slope winds: Recent advances and open questions

S Farina, D Zardi - Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2023 - Springer
The paper reviews recent advances in our understanding about the dynamics of thermally
driven winds over sloping terrain. Major progress from recent experiments, both in the field …

Cyclogenesis in the lee of the Alps: a review of theories

A Buzzi, S Davolio, M Fantini - Bulletin of Atmospheric Science and …, 2020 - Springer
Although the phenomenon has been known, and investigated, as early as the nineteenth
century, the interest in understanding Alpine lee cyclogenesis (often called Genoa …

[HTML][HTML] Improving climate model skill over High Mountain Asia by adapting snow cover parameterization to complex-topography areas

M Lalande, M Ménégoz, G Krinner, C Ottlé… - The …, 2023 - tc.copernicus.org
This study investigates the impact of topography on five snow cover fraction (SCF)
parameterizations developed for global climate models (GCMs), including two novel ones …

Influence of grid resolution of large‐eddy simulations on foehn‐cold pool interaction

L Umek, A Gohm, M Haid, HC Ward… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Numerical simulations are performed to assess the influence of horizontal and vertical
model resolution on the turbulent erosion of a cold‐air pool (CAP) by foehn winds in an …

[HTML][HTML] A collaborative effort to better understand, measure, and model atmospheric exchange processes over mountains

MW Rotach, S Serafin, HC Ward… - Bulletin of the …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
In this essay, we highlight some challenges the atmospheric community is facing concerning
adequate treatment of flows over mountains and their implications for numerical weather …

A characterisation of Alpine mesocyclone occurrence

M Feldmann, U Germann, M Gabella… - Weather and Climate …, 2021 - wcd.copernicus.org
This work presents a characterisation of mesocyclone occurrence and frequency in the
Alpine region, as observed from the Swiss operational radar network; 5 years of radar data …

Accounting for the three‐dimensional nature of mountain waves: Parametrising partial critical‐level filtering

A van Niekerk, SB Vosper… - Quarterly Journal of the …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Gravity waves generated by mountains are multiscale and three‐dimensional. Current
orographic gravity wave drag parametrisation schemes assume that the waves are two …

Exploring the daytime boundary layer evolution based on Doppler spectrum width from multiple coplanar wind lidars during CROSSINN

N Babić, B Adler, A Gohm, M Lehner… - Weather and Climate …, 2024 - wcd.copernicus.org
Over heterogeneous, mountainous terrain, the determination of spatial heterogeneity of any
type of a turbulent layer has been known to pose substantial challenges in mountain …