Fog and cloud-water initialization issues, Oct 2013
The Problems
No fog.
Working on Solutions
The loops in this table illustrate the attempts and how they impact the simulations.
Table 1. Standard Plots
Initialization
Domain
Product
Hour
Cases (control click to select multiple)
00Z Jan 7, 2010 is a really bad case for standard runs
Choose a date
00Z Oct 21, 2013
WA 1km Visible: Oct 21, 2013
West Coast 1km Visible: Oct 21, 2013
Choose a domain
36-km
12-km
------ High Res domains not done for all cases -------
4-km
1 1/3-km
All products
------ Moisture ---------
Low clouds sfc to 3000 feet
Low clouds 3 - 10Kft
Middle clouds 10-20Kft
High clouds about 20Kft
Surface RH
OLR
Integrated Cloud
1-hour Precip
Western WA 1-hour Precip
3-hour Precip
Western WA 3-hour Precip
--- Cross-sections ---------
Cross-section locations over wind plot
Cross-section 1
Cross-section 1 Zoomed in
Cross-section 2
Cross-section 2 Zoomed in
Cross-section 3
Cross-section 3 Zoomed in
--- Surface Plots -------
SLP
Western WA SLP
Surface Temp
Western WA Surface Temp
Surface Wind Speed
Western WA Surface Wind Speed
Western WA PBL Height
Snow Cover
Snow Depth
-- Only for wrfv311ustar71pbl51 case ------
Stability & PBL Height
-- Upper Levels ------
850mb Heights/Temp
Western WA 850mb Heights/Temp
700mb Omega
Western WA 700mb Omega
500mb Vorticity
-- Sounding Plots ------
KUIL
KSEA
-- Skew-T Plots ------
KUIL
KSEA
-- diff plots for 6/6/2013 ------
tdiff at all levels
Hour 0
Hour 3
Hour 6
Hour 12
Hour 18
Hour 21
Hour 24
All hours
All Cases
1. Std (aka wrfgfs)
2. wrfnam WRF with NAM init
3. naminit (MM5 + NAM init)
4. wrfgfsdiffoff
5. wrfv371ysudiff2n6 nov16
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