Improving the lake scheme within a coupled WRF‐lake model in the Laurentian Great Lakes

• Published in: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
• Main Authors: Xiao, Chuliang, Lofgren, Brent M., Wang, Jia, Chu, Philip Y.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Natl. Cent. for Atmos. Res 2016
• Subjects: Great Lakes; lake model; WRF; Geological Sciences; Science; New Lake; Boreal Environment Research
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/135995; https://doi.org/10.1002/2016MS000717

In this study, a one‐dimensional (1‐D) thermal diffusion lake model within the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model was investigated for the Laurentian Great Lakes. In the default 10‐layer lake model, the albedos of water and ice are specified with constant values, 0.08 and 0.6, respectively...