BRAMS

Papers:

2007:

FREITAS, S. R.; LONGO, K. M.; SILVA DIAS, M. F. A.,; CHATFIELD, R.; SILVA DIAS, P. L.; ARTAXO, P.; ANDREAE, M. O.; GRELL, G.; RODRIGUES, L. F.; FAZENDA, A. L.; PANETTA, J; The Coupled Aerosol and Tracer Transport model to the Brazilian developments on the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (CATT-BRAMS). Part 1: Model description and evaluation, In press: ACPD/EGU MS# 2007-0166 (PDF)

LONGO, K. M.; FREITAS, S. R.; SETZER, A.; PRINS, E.; ARTAXO, P.; ANDREAE, M. O.; The Coupled Aerosol and Tracer Transport model to the Brazilian developments on the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (CATT-BRAMS). Part 2: Model sensitivity to the biomass burning inventories, In press: ACPD/EGU MS# 2007-0167 (PDF)

FREITAS, E. D. ; ROZOFF, C. M. ; COTTON, W. R. ; SILVA DIAS, P. L. . Interactions of an urban heat island and sea breeze circulations during winter over the Metropolitan Area of São Paulo - Brazil. Boundary - Layer Meteorology, v. 122(1), p. 43-65, 2007.

2006:

MARTINS, L. D. ; ANDRADE, M. F. ; FREITAS, E. D. ; PRETO, A. ; GATTI, L. V. ; ALBUQUERQUE, E. L. ; TOMAZ, E. ; GUARDANI, M. L. ; MARTINS, M. H. R. B. ; JUNIOR, O. M. A. . Emission Factors for Gas-Powered Vehicles Traveling Through Road Tunnels in São Paulo, Brazil. Environmental Science & Technology, Estados Unidos, v. 40, n. 21, p. 6722-6729, 2006.

Menezes, W. F. ; Waldheim, P. V. ; Mourao, C. E. F. ; Carvalho, V. S. B.; Rocha, C. R. M. . Análise em Mesoescala do Ambiente Pré Convectivo Associado com um Evento de Wall Cloud Ocorrido no Estado de São Paulo em 2005, Usando o Modelo Brams. In: XIV Congresso Brasileiro de Meteorologia, 2006. Anais do XIV Congresso Brasileiro de Meteorologia. v. 1. p. 1-8. (PDF)

Fazenda A. L., Enari E. H., Rodrigues L. F., Panetta J., Towards Production Code Effective Portability among Vector Machines and Microprocessor-Based Architectures, In Proceedings of the 18th Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing, SBC, in press, 2006.

Freitas, S. R.; Longo, K.; Silva Dias, M.; Silva Dias, P.; Chatfield, R.; Fazenda, Á.; Rodrigues, L. F. The coupled aerosol and tracer transport model to the brazilian developments on the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System: validation using direct and remote sensing observations. In: International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography (ICSHMO), 8., 2006, Foz do Iguaçu. Proceedings... São José dos Campos: INPE, 2006. p. 101-107. CD-ROM. ISBN 85-17-00023-4.

Freitas, S. R.; Longo, K.; Fazenda, Á.; Rodrigues, L. F. Using the super-parameterization concept to include the sub-grid plume-rise of vegetation fires in low resolution atmospheric chemistry-transport models. In: International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography (ICSHMO), 8., 2006, Foz do Iguaçu. Proceedings... São José dos Campos: INPE, 2006. p. 109-113. CD-ROM. ISBN 85-17-00023-4.

Freitas, S. R.; Longo, K. M.; M. Andreae. Impact of including the plume rise of vegetation fires in numerical simulations of associated atmospheric pollutants. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L17808, doi:10.1029/2006GL026608, 2006.

Gevaerd, R., Freitas, S. Estimativa Operacional da Umidade de Solo para Iniciação de Modelos de Previsão Numérica da Atmosfera - Parte I: Descrição da Metodologia e Validação, Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia - Volume Especial da LBA, in press. (PDF)

Gevaerd, R., S. R. Freitas, M. Longo, D. S. Moreira, M. A. Silva Dias, P.Silva Dias, Estimativa operacional da umidade do solo para iniciação de modelos de previsão numérica da atmosfera. Parte II: Impacto da umidade do solo e da parametrização de cumulus na simulação de uma linha seca.Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia, volume especial do LBA. 2006, in press.

Longo K., Freitas S., Dias M. A. S., Dias P. S., Numerical Modeling Developments Towards a System Suitable to a Real Time Air Quality Forecast and Climate Changes Studies in South America, IGAC 9th International Conference, 12-16, 33, 2006 (PDF)

Longo, K.; Freitas, S. R.; Ulke, A. G.; Hierro, R. F. Transport of biomass burning products in Southeastern South America and its relationship with the South American Low Level Jet East of the Andes. In: International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography (ICSHMO), 8., 2006, Foz do Iguaçu. Proceedings... São José dos Campos: INPE, 2006. p. 121-129. CD-ROM. ISBN 85-17-00023-4.

Longo, K.; Freitas, S. R. Estimation of Biomass Burning Emissions on South America using Field Observations and Remote Sensing. In: International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography (ICSHMO), 8., 2006, Foz do Iguaçu. Proceedings... São José dos Campos: INPE, 2006. p. 115-119. CD-ROM. ISBN 85-17-00023-4.

Longo, K. M.; Freitas, S. R.; Silva Dias, M.A.F. Dias, P. Silva Dias. Numerical modeling developments towards a system suitable to a real time air quality forecast and climate changes studies in South America. Newsletter of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project, Taiwan, v. 33, p. 12-16, 2006.

Longo, K. M.; Freitas, S. R.; Silva Dias, M.; Silva Dias, P. Rodrigues, L. F, Numerical modelling of the biomass-burning aerosol direct radiative effects on the thermodynamics structure of the atmosphere and convective precipitation. In: International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography (ICSHMO), 8., 2006, Foz do Iguaçu. Proceedings... São José dos Campos: INPE, 2006. p. 283-289. CD-ROM. ISBN 85-17-00023-4.

Marécal, V., G. Durry, K. M. Longo, S. R. Freitas, E. Riviere, and M. Pirre, Mesoscale modelling of water vapour in the tropical UTLS: two case studies from the HIBISCUS campaign, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 6, 8241-8284, 2006.

Marécal, V., Riviere E. D., HeldG. , Cautenet S., Freitas S. R.. Modelling study of the impact of deep convection on the UTLS air composition - Part I: Analysis of ozone precursors. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Vol. 6, pp 1567-1584, 18-5-2006.

Ramos da Silva, R., G. Bohrer, D. Werth, M.J.Otte and R. Avissar: Sensitivity of Ice Storms in the Southeastern United States to Atlantic SST - Insights from a Case Study of the December 2002 Storm. Monthly Weather
Review: Vol. 134, No. 5, pp. 1454-1464, 2006

Ramos da Silva, R. and R. Avissar: 2006, The Hydrometeorology of a deforested region of the Amazon. Journal of Hydrometeorology. , v.7, p.1028 - 1042.

Sánchez-Ccoyllo O.R, Silva Dias P. L., Andrade M.F., Freitas S. R., Determination of O3-, CO- and PM10-transport in the metropolitan area of São Paulo, Brazil through synoptic-scale analysis of back trajectories, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 92, 83–93, 2006 (PDF)

2005:

FREITAS, E. D. ; MARTINS, L. D. ; SILVA DIAS, P. L. ; ANDRADE, M. F. . A simple photochemical module implemented in RAMS for tropospheric ozone concentration forecast in the Metropolitan Area of São Paulo - Brazil: Coupling and validation.. Atmospheric Environment, Inglaterra, v. 39, n. 34, p. 6352-6361, 2005.

Freitas S. R., K. Longo, M. Silva Dias, P. Silva Dias, R. Chatfield, E. Prins, P. Artaxo, G. Grell and F. Recuero. Monitoring the transport of biomass burning emissions in South America. Environmental Fluid Mechanics, DOI: 10.1007/s10652-005-0243-7, 5 (1-2), p. 135 - 167, 2005.

Ramos A.M., Freitas S., Longo K., Fazenda A. L., Rodrigues L. F., Modelagem Numérica do Transporte de Poluentes Emitidos por Fogos Durante a Onda de Calor no Verão de 2003, APMG 2005 - 4o. Simpósio de Meteorologia e Geofísica, 2005, Sesimba, Anais do 4o. Simpósio de Meteorologia e Geofísica da APMG, 2005

Ramos A.M., Freitas S., Longo K., Moreira D.S., Fazenda A.L., Rodrigues L.F., The Use of High Resolution Numerical Simulation to Study the Transport of Biomass Burning Pollution over Europe in August 2003. 5th Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society (EMS), 2005, Utrecht. Proceedings of 5th Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society (EMS), 2005

2004:

Ramos da Silva, R., P. L. Silva Dias, A. W. Gandu, and D. S. Moreira, 2004: Impactos da Temperatura da Superficie do Mar no Cliclone Catarina. Congresso Brasileiro de Meteorologia, Fortaleza-CE, CBMET. (PDF)

2003:

Ramos da Silva, R., and R. Avissar, 2003: Large eddy simulations (LES) of wet convection in Rondonia (Amazon). International Union of Geophysics and Geodesy - IUGG, Saporo, Japan, IUGG.

2002:

Ramos da Silva, R., P. Avissar, M. A. Silva Dias, and P. L. Silva Dias, 2002: A Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of the Boundary Layer Evolution Over a Deforested Region of Rondonia. 2nd International LBA Scientific Conference, Manaus, AM..

2001:

2000:

Freitas, S. R., M. A. F. da Silva Dias, P. L. da Silva Dias, K. M. Longo, P. Artaxo, M. O. Andreae and H. Fischer, A convective kinematic trajectory technique for low-resolution atmospheric models. J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 105, No. D19, p. 24375-24386, 2000

Freitas, S.R., M.A.F. Silva Dias e P. L. Silva Dias, Modeling the convective transport of trace gases by deep and moist convection, Hybrid Methods in Engineering, vol. 3, pp. 317–330, 2000

1999:

Mendes, Celso L.; Panetta, J. Selecting Directions for Parallel RAMS Performance Optimization. In Proceedings of the 11th Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing, SBC, p. 85 - 92, 1999.

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1997:

1996:

Ramos da Silva, R., V. P. Silva Filho, A. W. Gandu, P. Satyamurty, M. I. Vitorino, and A. A. Costa, 1996a: Tunning RAMS to Northeast Region of Brazil - Preliminary Results. Seventh Conference on Mesoscale Processes., Reading, UK, American Meteorological Society, 435-436.

Ramos da Silva, R., M. I. Vitorino, A. A. Costa, K. C. Mendes, A. C. C. Luz, M. Sakamoto, V. P. Silva Filho, and A. W. Gandu, 1996b: A experiencia da FUNCEME no uso do modelo RAMS para o Nordeste do Brasil. IX Congresso Brasileiro de Meteorologia, Campos do Jordão, SP, SBMET.

Background on RAMS :

Cotton WR, Pielke RA,Walko RL, Liston GE, Tremback C, Jiang H, McAnelly RL, Harrington JY, Nicholls ME, Carrio GG, McFadden JP (2003) RAMS 2001: Current status and future directions. Meteorol Atmos Phys 82:5–29

Harrington JY (1997) The effects of radiative and microphysical processes on simulated warm and transition season Arctic stratus. Ph.D. Diss., Atmospheric Science Paper No. 637, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado Sate University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, 289 pp

Kuo HL (1974) Further studies of the parameterizations of the influence of cumulus convective on large-scale flow. J Atmos Sci 31: 1232–1240

Mellor GL, Yamada T (1982) Development of a turbulence closure model for geophysical fluid problems. Rev Geophys Space Phys 20(4): 851–875

Pielke RA, Cotton WR, Walko RL, Tremback CJ, Lyons WA, Grasso LD, Nicholls ME, Moran MD, Wesley DA, Lee TJ, Copeland JH (1992) A comprehensive meteorological modeling system – RAMS. Meteorol Atmos Phys 49(1–4): 69–91

Tremback C.J. (1990) Numerical simulation of a mesoscale convective complex: model development and numerical results. Ph.D. Diss., Atmospheric Science Paper No. 465, Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO 80523

Tremback, C.J., Walko, R.L. (2004) Implementing Very-High Resolution Capabilities into a Mesoscale Atmospheric Model: New Capabilities for the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS), Mesoscale and CFD Modeling for Military Applications, University of Minnesolta (PDF).

Walko RL, Tremback CJ, Pielke RA, Cotton WR (1995) An interactive nesting algorithm for stretched grids and variable nesting ratios. J Appl Meteor, 34, 994–999

Walko RL, Cotton WR, Meyers MP, Harrington JY (1995) New RAMS cloud microphysics parametrization. Part I: the single-moment scheme. Atmos Res 38: 29–62