What is it about?
The study explored the impact of grid resolution on 2 h idealized supercell thunderstorms. Supercell thunderstorms forecasts were found to be sensitive to grid resolution. However, for operational considerations, the added computational costs may outweigh the forecast improvements.
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Why is it important?
The study was highly motivated by the NOAA Warn-on-Forecast program; an effort to provide short-term, rapidly-updating probabilistic guidance on severe hazards from individual thunderstorms. Supercell thunderstorms are primary generator of EF2+ tornadoes and therefore it was a vital study to establish a relevant grid resolution for the Warn-on-Forecast program.
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This was my first publication even though I was the second author. I performed a majority of the research during the REU at the University of Oklahoma.
Montgomery L Flora
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This page is a summary of: Sensitivity of Idealized Supercell Simulations to Horizontal Grid Spacing: Implications for Warn-on-Forecast, Monthly Weather Review, August 2015, American Meteorological Society,
DOI: 10.1175/mwr-d-14-00416.1.
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