1. General Model Information
Name: Regional Atmospheric Modeling System
Acronym: RAMS
Main medium: air+terrestrial
Main subject: hydrology, meteorology
Organization level: landscape
Type of model: partial differential equations (finite differences)
Main application:
Keywords: Mesoscale, microscale, atmospheric process, visualisation, cartesian grid
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Developed at Colorado State University and ASTeR, Inc
Amalgamation of William Cotton cloud physics model and Roger Pielke
mesoscale model, with contributions from many other scientists
Abstract:
RAMS (Regional Atmospheric Modeling System) is an atmospheric numerical
model that can be used for simulating and forecasting meteorological
phenomena and for depicting the results over a large range of temporal and
spatial scales. The model was developed by ASTeR (Atmospheric Simulation,
Testing and Research Inc., Ft. Collins, Colorado).
The model has atmospheric, isentropic and visualization components.
It accepts as input the NMC or ECMWF 2.5-degree resolution global
atmospheric gridded datasets containing horizontal wind components,
temperature and relative humidity. Other input data requirements are soil
type, vegetation types, terrain elevations, sea surface temperatures,
albedo, soil temperatures and soil moisture. The model output
includes horizontal and vertical wind components, temperatures,
concentration of rain, liquid and solid precipitation amounts and
sea level pressures.
The temporal range of model execution is from minutes to days. RAMS
may be used for any spatial scale. Microscale phenomena such as
tornadoes and boundary-layer eddies have been simulated with the model.
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II. Technical Information
II.1 Executables:
Operating System(s): UNIX. It requires the GKS version of NCAR Graphics to be executed.
II.2 Source-code:
Programming Language(s): FORTRAN
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II.4 Data:
III. Mathematical Information
III.1 Mathematics
III.2 Quantities
III.2.1 Input
III.2.2 Output
IV. References
Pielke, R.A., D.S. Schimel, T.J. Lee, T.G.F. Kittel,and X. Zeng. 1993. Atmospheric-terrestrial ecosystem interactions: implications forcoupled modeling. Ecol. Mod. 5-18.Walko, R.L., R.A. Pielke, J. Baron, D. Schimel, W.J. Parton, D. Ojima, T.G.F. Kittel, T.J.Lee, and C.J. Tremback, 1996: Methods of coupling RAMS with ecosystem models. Inpreparation.
V. Further information in the World-Wide-Web
VI. Additional remarks
Global change implications: RAMS has been used in conjunctionwith other models (e.g. ecosystem models) to examine the effects of changesin climate on vegetative growth (Pielke et al., 1993).
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Tobias Gabele Wed Aug 21 21:44:48 CEST 2002