Cascade - Scale interactions in the tropical atmosphere model runs

Cascade was a NERC funded consortium project to study organized convection in the tropical atmosphere using large domain cloud system resolving model simulations.

This datset collection contains measurements from atmospheric model runs of the tropics.

Within the Cascade project a version of the Met Office Unified Model (UM) at horizontal resolutions of 1.5km - 40km was used Africa, Indian Ocean and West Pacific Ocean. The horizontal resolution allowed the individual cloud systems to simulate the large-scale organization. The combination of the high resolution and large domains allowed the upscale transports of heat, moisture and momentum and investigated the impact of these transports on the evolution of the synoptic and planetary scale systems.

Two domains of interest were chosen to represent continental and oceanic convection respectively. Simulations of the West African Monsoon region were used to understand the range of factors which influence the diurnal cycle of convection over complex topography and to identify the impact of the diurnal cycle and other mesoscale organization on the synoptic organization of convection by African Easterly Waves. Simulations of the Indian Ocean and West Pacific Warm Pool were used to investigate the role of mesoscale and synoptic scale organization on the evolution of the Madden-Julian Oscillation and the influence of the diurnal cycle (e.g. land-sea breeze circulations) on the maintenance of the climate of the Maritime Continent region. In addition, simulations over an idealized ocean surface were used to investigate the organization of convection by equatorially trapped wave modes.

Date (Publication): 2008-12-10T03:15:37

Date (Creation): 2008-12-10T03:15:37

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/20981e3052a66ca71c2ba92b94760150

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 20981e3052a66ca71c2ba92b94760150

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)		unknown	Author
NERC CASCADE Project participants		unknown	Author
Unavailable	Lister, Grenville	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Woolnough, Steve	Unavailable	Author
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Custodian
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	pointofContact
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

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Keywords

Cascade
atmosphere
UM
Unified Model
tropical

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2002-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2010-04-16T22:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor

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	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/20981e3052a66ca71c2ba92b94760150	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.hector.ac.uk/casestudies/cascade.php	CASCADE: Cloud System Resolving Modelling of the Tropical Atmosphere

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Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

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Date stamp: 2025-07-18T02:26:49

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Metadata standard version: 2.3

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Point of contact

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