WRF Aerosol Tests for Smoke using GEOS fields

Table 1. Plots
Initialization DomainProductHourCases (control click to select multiple)
Choose a date:
Aug 6, 2017
Aug 6 visible satellite loop
Sep 6, 2017
Sep 6 visible satellite loop
Table 2. Case descriptions
Case Name(s)Description
aer aer_opt2 aer_opt2sm aer_opt2 Case uses:
GEOS 3-hourly aerosol optical depth from TOTEXTTAU
fixed aerosol angstrom exponent = 1.3
fixed single scattering albedo = 0.85
fixed aerosol asymmetry parameter = 0.9
aerang aer_opt2ang aer_opt2ang Case uses:
GEOS 3-hourly aerosol optical depth from TOTEXTTAU
GEOS 3-hourly aerosol angstrom exponent from TOTANGSTR
fixed single scattering albedo = 0.85
fixed aerosol asymmetry parameter = 0.9
aerangssa aer_opt2angssa aer_opt2angssa Case uses:
GEOS 3-hourly aerosol optical depth from TOTEXTTAU
GEOS 3-hourly aerosol angstrom exponent from TOTANGSTR
GEOS 3-hourly single scattering albedo from TOTSCATAU/TOTEXTTAU
fixed aerosol asymmetry parameter = 0.9