WACCEM: Water Cycle and Climate Extremes Modeling
This work aims to advance predictive understanding of water cycle processes and their variations and changes. Our ultimate goal is to improve predictability of water availability and understand society’s vulnerability to extreme water events. Guided by three overarching science questions, our research focuses on large-scale circulation,
mesoscale convective systems,
and multiscale interactions between
convection
and large-scale circulation.
| Keywords | atmospheric circulation, climate extremes, mesoscale convection, multiscale interactions, numerical models, precipitation, water cycle |
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| TYPE | Scientific Focus Area |
Principal Investigator (PI)
Ruby Leung
Lead Institution
Other Collaborators
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Pennsylvania State University
University of Maryland
Methods for better evaluating how well climate models simulate storms require tracking the modeled storms. Photo by Zhe Feng, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. (Image credit: Zhe Feng, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)