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Unit of environmental damage
I need to know how environmental damage is measured in general. The unit I have seen is recovery time, but this seems inadequate, e.g., when a species goes extinct, the recovery time is infinite. The ...
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Laplacian based on finite difference vs spectral technique
All, As Laplacian could be computed using finite difference techniques (e.g., second derivative or first derivative of the first derivative ) or spectral methods, It will be helpful to mention the ...
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NCEP GFS data products: ANL and FH000
I'm confused with the GFS model data products, presented at NCEP Products Inventory website. There are two types of products for analysis: ANL ("**.anl") and FH000 ("*.f000"). As ...
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How does ERA5 reanalysis data deal with wildfires?
I am trying to investigate the likelihood of a fire occuring in the Amazon rainforest based on environmental variables, including ERA5Land data such as temperature, wind speed and relative humidity (...
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The gravity wave and acoustic wave calculation in atmospheric models
I am wondering about the gravity wave (as well as the acoustic wave) calculation in atmospheric model. I know that the non-hydrostatic model should take the internal gravity wave and acoustic wave ...
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Global Ocean Models not dissipative?
I keep hearing that the models used for global ocean simulations are not actually dissipative, even though they clearly have dissipative terms and we couldn't solve them if they didn't (here, "...
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Bias correction of CMIP6 projections
Is it always mandatory to perform a bias correction when working with CMIP6 climate projections? I am working with multiple climate projections from CMPI6 and I'm not sure if this step is necessary, ...
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Estimate EPW AMY parameters from HRRR Analysis
I am working to create Energy Plus Weather (EPW) Actual Meteorological Year (AMY) files from NOAA HRRR Model analysis. The provided links detail the 35 parameters required for the AMY model and ...
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Estimating atmospheric vertical motion from 3D fields in WRF output
I have WRF data on isobaric levels that unfortunately does not contain a z-wind or omega field within the output, and I would like to produce some estimate as to the magnitude of synoptic-scale ...
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Understanding Graphs for Velocity and Temperature Solutions for Parallel Sided Slab on Slope Problem
I'm trying to recreate the graphs in Figure 6.2 from this source (page 88). They get these plots by using the following solutions for velocity and temperature (both obtained from solving the basic ...
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Query on the 'namelist.input' file for running WRF-Chem to study aerosol-cloud-climate interaction
I have a small inquiry about the setup of some variables in 'namelist.input' file for running WRF-Chem to study aerosol-cloud-climate interaction. After going through various research papers on ...
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Conservation of mass in Integrated surface water and groundwater models
One of the fundamental principles in fluid mechanics is the conservation of mass - how is this treated in integrated surface water | groundwater models such as MIKE models, say between two river cross-...
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What is the benefit of Priessman Slots in Numerical modeling?
There is no descriptive content on the interneton what Priessman slots are and how they can be used in numerical modeling. What is the benefit of that especially in hydraulic modeling?
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MIKE SHE Lateral inflow outputs and the differences between them
There are four 'Lateral inflow' related variables coming out from the .res1d file Lateral inflow SHE overland Lateral inflow SHE saturated zone Lateral inflow SHE overland drain Lateral inflow SHE ...
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divergence of static stability identical parameters
All, The static stability of the atmosphere is defined as: $\sigma =-\dfrac{T}{\theta} \dfrac{d\theta}{dp}= \dfrac{dT}{dp}-\dfrac{R}{c_p} \dfrac{T}{p}$ where: $T$ is temperature, $P$ is pressure, $R$ ...