Mesoscale Precipitation: Analysis Simulation and Forecasting Conference - MIT, Sept. 1988

会议汇集了气象学家、水文学家和土木工程师，讨论在中尺度或集水区尺度上降水模拟的进展。这次会议是1986年3月举行的第一次这种性质会议的后续行动。在过去两年中取得了相当大的进展。存在新的可操作的中尺度降水模式；提出了新的多维随机降水模式；有了重要的新数据集；计划进行大型实验；最近的研究结果对对流细胞尺度上的聚类概念提出了质疑。这些研究团体之间的互动是及时的，将有利于洪水的预测。

The conference brings together meteorologists, hydrologists and civil engineers to discuss advances made in the simulation of precipitation at mesoscale or catchment scale. This meeting is a follow up of the first meeting of this nature that took place in March 1986. In the past two years considerable progress has been made. New operational mesoscale precipitation models exist; new multidimensional stochastic models of precipitation have been proposed; significant new data sets are available; large experiments are planned; and recent results of research question the concept of clustering at the convective cell scale. The interaction between these research communities is timely and will benefit the forecasting of floods.