These WRF 3.4 simulations are daily generated using more than 100 computing cores from the UIB cluster. WRF model specifications: |
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Domain: | Western Mediterranean Sea (~ 48°N / 11°W — 33°N / 20°E) |
Spatial resolution: | 4 km |
Projection: | Lambert conformal conic projection |
Dimensions: | East-West: 2596 km South-North: 1596 km Vertical levels: 30 |
Time: | Initialization time: 00 UTC Forecast range: 72 h Output frequency: 10 min for radar and 30 min for other variables |
Main physics configuration |
Author |
Description
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Microphysics |
WSM6 |
Hong and Lim (2006, JKMS) |
WRF Single-Moment 6-class scheme: A scheme with ice, snow and graupel processes suitable for high-resolution simulations. |
Longwave radiation |
RRTM |
Mlawer et al. (1997, JGR) |
RRTM scheme: Rapid Radiative Transfer Model. An accurate scheme using look-up tables for efficiency. Accounts for multiple bands, and microphysics species. |
Shortwave radiation |
Dudhia |
Dudhia (1989, JAS) |
Dudhia scheme: Simple downward integration allowing efficiently for clouds and clear-sky absorption and scattering. |
Planetary boundary layer |
MYJ |
Janjic (1994, MWR) |
Mellor-Yamada-Janjic scheme: Eta operational scheme. One-dimensional prognostic turbulent kinetic energy scheme with local vertical mixing. |
Cumulus parameterization |
- |
- | No cumulus parametrization used. |
Other physics configuration |
Description
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Surface layer |
2 |
Eta similarity: Used in Eta model. Based on Monin-Obukhov with Zilitinkevich thermal roughness length and standard similarity functions from look-up tables. |
Land surface |
2 |
Noah Land Surface Model: Unified NCEP/NCAR/AFWA scheme with soil temperature and moisture in four layers, fractional snow cover and frozen soil physics. |
Heat & moisture fluxes |
1 |
Heat and moisture fluxes from the surface for real-data cases and when a PBL are on. |
Soil layers |
5 |
Number of soil layers in land surface model (set before running real.exe). |
Cumulus physics calls time |
5 |
Minutes between cumulus physics calls; should be set to 0 when using allcu_physics except Kain-Fritsch (0 = call every time step). |
Radiation calls time |
30 |
Minutes between radiation physics calls. |
Boundary layer calls time |
0 |
Minutes between boundary-layer physics calls (0=call every time step). |