CEDAR: Validation of High-Latitude Convection Models

PIS将利用新获得的测量数据，通过将预测与一组具有代表性的高纬度对流大尺度直接地图进行比较，来确定模型有效性的界限。由高频雷达SuperDARN系统提供的数据库表明，这些测量结果解决了模式预测的大尺度对流特征。PI将选择一些SuperDARN档案事件作为模型验证的试验台，然后生成所选事件的模型预测，并设计评估方案来衡量它们的成功。这项研究将描述对流模型的预测价值，提出改进模型的建议，以及将模型和直接测量相结合以最佳绘制对流地图的方法。

The PIs will draw on newly available measurements to determine the limits of model validity by comparing predictions with a representative set of direct, large-scale maps of high-latitude convection. The database, furnished by the SuperDARN system of HF radars, has demonstrated that these measurements resolve the large-scale features of convection that the models predict. The PIs will select a number of SuperDARN archival events as a testbed for model validation, then generate the predictions of the models for the selected events and devise evaluation schemes for gauging their success. The research will produce a characterization of the predictive value of convection models, recommendations for model improvement, and methods of combining models and direct measurements to optimally map convection.