Application of the Polar WRF model for Svalbard - sensitivity to planetary boundary layer, radiationand microphysics schemes
This paper constitutes the sensitivity study of application the Polar WRF model to the Svalbard area with testing selected parameterizations, including planetary boundary layer, radiation and microphysics schemes. The model was configured, using three one-way nested domains with 27 km, 9 km and 3 km...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:7d50e02e24d8417fa977e62879790030 2023-05-15T15:12:35+02:00 Application of the Polar WRF model for Svalbard - sensitivity to planetary boundary layer, radiationand microphysics schemes Natalia Pilguj Bartosz Czernecki Maciej Kryza Krzysztof Migała Leszek Kolendowicz 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.24425/118751 https://doaj.org/article/7d50e02e24d8417fa977e62879790030 EN eng Polish Academy of Sciences https://journals.pan.pl/Content/103317/PDF/Polish%20Polar%203-18%202-N.Pilguj%20i%20in.pdf https://doaj.org/toc/0138-0338 https://doaj.org/toc/2081-8262 0138-0338 2081-8262 https://doi.org/10.24425/118751 https://doaj.org/article/7d50e02e24d8417fa977e62879790030 Polish Polar Research, Vol vol. 39, Iss No 3 (2018) arctic dynamical downscaling parameterizations testing numerical modeling model evaluation Geology QE1-996.5 article 2018 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.24425/118751 2022-12-30T22:45:12Z This paper constitutes the sensitivity study of application the Polar WRF model to the Svalbard area with testing selected parameterizations, including planetary boundary layer, radiation and microphysics schemes. The model was configured, using three one-way nested domains with 27 km, 9 km and 3 km grid cell resolutions. Results from the innermost domain were presented and compared against measured wind speed and air temperature at 10 meteorological stations. The study period covers two months: June 2008 and January 2009. Significant differences between simulations results occurred for planetary boundary layer (PBL) schemes in January 2009. The Mellor-Yamada-Janjic (MYJ) planetary boundary layer (PBL) scheme resulted in the lowest errors for air temperature, according to mean error (ME), mean absolute error (MAE) and correlation coefficient values, where for wind speed this scheme was the worst from all the PBL schemes tested. In the case of June 2008, shortwave and longwave radiation schemes influenced the results the most. Generally, higher correlations were obtained for January, both for air temperature and wind speed. However, the model performs better for June in terms of ME and MAE error statistics. The results were also analyzed spatially, to summarize the uncertainty of the model results related to the analyzed parameterization schemes groups. Significant variability among simulations was calculated for January 2009 over the northern part of Spitsbergen and fjords for the PBL schemes. Standard deviations for monthly average simulated values were up to 3.5°C for air temperature and around 1 m s-1 for wind speed. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Polar Research Svalbard Spitsbergen Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Svalbard Mellor ENVELOPE(-114.944,-114.944,60.714,60.714) |
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This paper constitutes the sensitivity study of application the Polar WRF model to the Svalbard area with testing selected parameterizations, including planetary boundary layer, radiation and microphysics schemes. The model was configured, using three one-way nested domains with 27 km, 9 km and 3 km grid cell resolutions. Results from the innermost domain were presented and compared against measured wind speed and air temperature at 10 meteorological stations. The study period covers two months: June 2008 and January 2009. Significant differences between simulations results occurred for planetary boundary layer (PBL) schemes in January 2009. The Mellor-Yamada-Janjic (MYJ) planetary boundary layer (PBL) scheme resulted in the lowest errors for air temperature, according to mean error (ME), mean absolute error (MAE) and correlation coefficient values, where for wind speed this scheme was the worst from all the PBL schemes tested. In the case of June 2008, shortwave and longwave radiation schemes influenced the results the most. Generally, higher correlations were obtained for January, both for air temperature and wind speed. However, the model performs better for June in terms of ME and MAE error statistics. The results were also analyzed spatially, to summarize the uncertainty of the model results related to the analyzed parameterization schemes groups. Significant variability among simulations was calculated for January 2009 over the northern part of Spitsbergen and fjords for the PBL schemes. Standard deviations for monthly average simulated values were up to 3.5°C for air temperature and around 1 m s-1 for wind speed. |
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Natalia Pilguj Bartosz Czernecki Maciej Kryza Krzysztof Migała Leszek Kolendowicz |
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Natalia Pilguj Bartosz Czernecki Maciej Kryza Krzysztof Migała Leszek Kolendowicz |
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Application of the Polar WRF model for Svalbard - sensitivity to planetary boundary layer, radiationand microphysics schemes |
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Application of the Polar WRF model for Svalbard - sensitivity to planetary boundary layer, radiationand microphysics schemes |
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Application of the Polar WRF model for Svalbard - sensitivity to planetary boundary layer, radiationand microphysics schemes |
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Application of the Polar WRF model for Svalbard - sensitivity to planetary boundary layer, radiationand microphysics schemes |
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Application of the Polar WRF model for Svalbard - sensitivity to planetary boundary layer, radiationand microphysics schemes |
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application of the polar wrf model for svalbard - sensitivity to planetary boundary layer, radiationand microphysics schemes |
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Polish Academy of Sciences |
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