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Physical Society Colloquium

Regional Modelling of the Atmosphere

Charles Lin

Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
McGill University

We discuss regional modelling of the atmosphere using a high resolution numerical model. The model used is the Mesoscale Compressible Community Model (MC2). We present an overview of the model, and results from three applications. They are the study of precipitation from Montreal area storms and comparison with values retrieved from the McGill radar, the surface wind and temperature fields over the Gulf of St. Lawrence and comparison with station observations, and a simulation of the severe precipitation of the Saguenay storm that gave rise to flash floods in the Saguenay region in July 1996.

Friday, December 3rd 1999, 15:30
Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Keys Auditorium (room 112)