Development and testing of polar WRF. Part III: Arctic land
A version of the state-of-the-art Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) has been developed for use in polar climates. The model known as "Polar WRF" is tested for land areas with a western Arctic grid that has 25-km resolution. This work serves as preparation for the high-resolution...
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ftncar:oai:drupal-site.org:articles_17259 2023-09-05T13:11:30+02:00 Development and testing of polar WRF. Part III: Arctic land Hines, K. (author) Bromwich, L. (author) Bai, L. (author) Barlage, Michael (author) Slater, A. (author) 2011-01-01 application/pdf http://nldr.library.ucar.edu/repository/collections/OSGC-000-000-001-010 https://doi.org/10.1175/2010JCLI3460.1 en eng American Meteorological Society Journal of Climate http://nldr.library.ucar.edu/repository/collections/OSGC-000-000-001-010 doi:10.1175/2010JCLI3460.1 ark:/85065/d7m046q4 Copyright 2011 American Meteorological Society (AMS). Permission to use figures, tables, and brief excerpts from this work in scientific and educational works is hereby granted provided that the source is acknowledged. Any use of material in this work that is determined to be "fair use" under Section 107 or that satisfies the conditions specified in Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law (17 USC, as revised by P.L. 94-553) does not require the Society's permission. Republication, systematic reproduction, posting in electronic form on servers, or other uses of this material, except as exempted by the above statements, requires written permission or license from the AMS. Additional details are provided in the AMS Copyright Policies, available from the AMS at 617-227-2425 or amspubs@ametsoc.org. Permission to place a copy of this work on this server has been provided by the AMS. The AMS does not guarantee that the copy provided here is an accurate copy of the published work. Text article 2011 ftncar https://doi.org/10.1175/2010JCLI3460.1 2023-08-14T18:42:40Z A version of the state-of-the-art Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) has been developed for use in polar climates. The model known as "Polar WRF" is tested for land areas with a western Arctic grid that has 25-km resolution. This work serves as preparation for the high-resolution Arctic System Reanalysis of the years 2000-2010. The model is based upon WRF version 3.0.1.1, with improvements to the Noah land surface model and snow/ice treatment Simulations consist of a series of 48-hour integrations initialized daily at 0000 UTC with the initial 24 hours are taken as spin-up for atmospheric hydrology and boundary layer processes. Soil temperature and moisture, that have a much slower spin-up than the atmosphere, are cycled from 48-hr output of earlier runs. Arctic conditions are simulated for a winter to summer seasonal cycle from 15 November 2006 to 1 August 2007. Simulation results are compared with a variety of observations from several Alaskan sites, with emphasis on the North Slope. Polar WRF simulation results show good agreement with most near-surface observations. Warm temperature biases are found for winter and summer. A sensitivity experiment with reduced soil heat conductivity, however, improves simulation of near surface temperature, ground heat flux, and soil temperature during winter. There is a marked deficit in summer cloud cover over land with excessive incident shortwave radiation. The cloud deficit may result from anomalous vertical mixing of moisture by the turbulence parameterization. The new snow albedo parameterization for WRF 3.1.1 is successfully tested for snow melt over the North Slope of Alaska. Article in Journal/Newspaper albedo Arctic north slope Alaska OpenSky (NCAR/UCAR - National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research) Arctic Journal of Climate 24 1 26 48 |
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A version of the state-of-the-art Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) has been developed for use in polar climates. The model known as "Polar WRF" is tested for land areas with a western Arctic grid that has 25-km resolution. This work serves as preparation for the high-resolution Arctic System Reanalysis of the years 2000-2010. The model is based upon WRF version 3.0.1.1, with improvements to the Noah land surface model and snow/ice treatment Simulations consist of a series of 48-hour integrations initialized daily at 0000 UTC with the initial 24 hours are taken as spin-up for atmospheric hydrology and boundary layer processes. Soil temperature and moisture, that have a much slower spin-up than the atmosphere, are cycled from 48-hr output of earlier runs. Arctic conditions are simulated for a winter to summer seasonal cycle from 15 November 2006 to 1 August 2007. Simulation results are compared with a variety of observations from several Alaskan sites, with emphasis on the North Slope. Polar WRF simulation results show good agreement with most near-surface observations. Warm temperature biases are found for winter and summer. A sensitivity experiment with reduced soil heat conductivity, however, improves simulation of near surface temperature, ground heat flux, and soil temperature during winter. There is a marked deficit in summer cloud cover over land with excessive incident shortwave radiation. The cloud deficit may result from anomalous vertical mixing of moisture by the turbulence parameterization. The new snow albedo parameterization for WRF 3.1.1 is successfully tested for snow melt over the North Slope of Alaska. |
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