U.S.-Egypt Cooperative Research: Building Advanced Numerical Weather Prediction Capacity in Egypt

美国-埃及合作研究：在埃及建立先进的数值天气预报能力

• 批准号: 0711106
• 负责人: David Yates
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University Corporation For Atmospheric Res
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0711106&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; Egypt; Cooperative; Research; Building

0711106 YatesDescription: This project supports collaborative research by Dr. David Yates at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado. The collaborating scientist is Dr. Magdy Abdel-Wahab, Astronomy and Meteorology Department at Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. They will collaborate on building advanced numerical weather prediction capacity in Egypt. Intellectual Merit: This partnership, established in March 2006, is between the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO USA and the universities of Al-Azhar and Cairo in their departments of Research and Atmospheric Sciences, respectively. NCAR is a chief developer of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model which is a state-of the- art, advanced mesocale (e.g. regional to continental) numerical weather prediction system designed to serve both operational forecasting and atmospheric research needs. The main goals of this continued collaboration between NCAR and the two universities will be to 1) advance the intellectual capacity of the Egyptian researchers in their knowledge and use of the WRF system; 2) help the Egyptians colleagues acquire and develop high performance computing capability and understanding at their home institutions in Egypt; and 3) assist them in the implementation of the WRF model on their new high performance computer, apply it to relevant societal problems such as air pollution and coastal hazard research, and begin to address data assimilation into theirWRF system.Broader Impact: This phase of collaboration will be mostly capacity building, with a long-term goal of the Egyptians colleagues effectively using the WRF system for the diverse applications and needs of Egyptian society and weather related decision-making. The WRF model is suitable for use in a broad spectrum of applications across scales ranging from meters to thousands of kilometers, including operational numerical weather prediction (NWP), the downscaling of climate simulations from large-scale climate models, driving air quality models, driving plume-tracking models for predicting the transport and dispersion of hazardous air-borne materials (nuclear or biological), atmosphere-ocean coupling for coastal storm and wave-height prediction, understanding, predicting and forecasting the interactions of the land surface with the atmosphere for hydrologic applications such as floods, flash-floods, and water resources management. All of these mentioned sectors have weather related decisions that impact Egyptian society and improved understanding of their processes and better prediction of weather related phenomena would be a tremendous benefit for Egypt. There is a real potential for expanding this collaboration to a wide array of other atmospheric science applications.This project is being supported under the US-Egypt Joint Fund Program, which provides grants to scientists and engineers in both countries to carry out these cooperative activities.

0711106 Yates描述：该项目支持科罗拉多博尔德国家大气研究中心（NCAR）的大卫耶茨博士的合作研究。 合作科学家是埃及开罗开罗大学天文和气象系的Magdy Abdel-Wahab博士。 他们将合作在埃及建立先进的数值天气预报能力。 智力优势：这种伙伴关系建立于2006年3月，是美国科罗拉多州博尔德国家大气研究中心与爱资哈尔大学和开罗大学分别在其研究和大气科学系之间建立的。NCAR是天气研究和预报（WRF）模型的主要开发者，该模型是最先进的先进中尺度（例如区域到大陆）数值天气预报系统，旨在满足业务预报和大气研究需求。NCAR和这两所大学之间持续合作的主要目标是：1）提高埃及研究人员在知识和使用WRF系统方面的智力能力; 2）帮助埃及同事获得和发展高性能计算能力，并在埃及本土机构中获得理解; 3）帮助他们在新的高性能计算机上实现WRF模式，将其应用于相关的社会问题，如空气污染和沿海灾害研究，并开始将数据同化纳入他们的WRF系统。这一阶段的合作将主要是能力建设，埃及同事的长期目标是有效地利用WRF系统，满足埃及社会和天气相关决策的各种应用和需求。WRF模式适用于从米到数千公里尺度的广泛应用，包括业务数值天气预报（NWP）、大尺度气候模式的气候模拟缩小、驱动空气质量模式、用于预测有害空气传播物质的传输和扩散的驱动羽流跟踪模式（核或生物）、沿海风暴和波高预测的大气-海洋耦合、了解、预测和预报陆地表面与大气的相互作用，以用于洪水、山洪暴发和水资源管理等水文应用。所有这些部门都有影响埃及社会的与天气有关的决定，提高对其过程的理解和更好地预测与天气有关的现象将给埃及带来巨大的好处。有一个真实的潜力，扩大这种合作，以广泛的其他大气科学的应用，这一项目正在支持下，美国-埃及联合基金方案，该方案提供赠款，在两国的科学家和工程师进行这些合作活动。