Case Studies

• August 8 2023 Hawaii fires
• Site comparisons plot showing two Mazama sites inside 4-km grid box is here
Aug-Oct 2022
• June 2021 heat wave
  May 2021
• My color tables sorted by HSV and my color tables sorted by HVS and patterned off of matplotlib list of named colors using my code based on 7 values for R, G, B variations
  1. rgb343_hsvsort_hsv.py giving rgb343_hsvsort_hsv.jpg
  2. rgb343_hsvsort_hex.py giving rgb343_hsvsort_hex.jpg
  3. rgb343_hsvsort_rgb.py giving rgb343_hsvsort_rgb.jpg
  Oct 2020
• West Coast Fires September 2020 Mar 2020
• sat loop tester and viewer mode and better hover mode
• all loop tester
• Comparing Observed Winds and Gusts to WRF Forecasts, added Mar 2020
• Switzerland Fog Forecasting, Mar 2020
• Comparing surface wind changes as WRF changed from 3.7.1 to 4.1.3
• Comparing vertical coordinates for hybrid and standard vertical levels in WRF 3.7.1 and 4.1.3 Jan 2019
• Oregon Winds Jan 24, 2019
• WRF v371 vs v403
  Dec 2018
• California Fires 2018
• Dec 14, 2018 Wind Storm
  Jun 2018
• Smoke
  Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
• Calfires
  Apr 2017
• MM5 NAM fix for INTERPF problem
  Mar 2017
• radt tests
  Jan 2017
• Stable PBL work, cold pool cases
• Comparing 1.33-km winds with 4-km winds
  Mar 2016
• How to Properly Rotate WRF Winds to Earth-Relative Coordinates using Python, GEMPAK, and NCL
  Dec 2015
• 0z,6z,12z initialization comparisons May 2105
• Climatological SST runs for Winter 2014/2015 Feb 2015
• 2014 and 2015 cases using high-res RAP130p grids, Noah-MP, and WRF3.6.1
• Lots of Stats and Cases
  aka Nov 2009 - Jan 2010 Wind Bias
• Using RAP for cloud initialization
  Prior
• October 2011 domain expansion.
  • investigating MM5-NAM meteogram errors
  • investigating tmm2 values, using wrfout vs mmout files
  • new graphics
  • new subdomains and colors for winds
• Fog and cloud-water initialization issues
• Vertical Resolution - Jan 18-19, 2012 Puget Sound snow and freezing rain
• Upper Boundary Issue
• Dec 21, 2008 Wind storm 12-km 4-km
  Choose domain and more standard products like the striations page.
• 4/3-km Domain Striations in Cloud Field
• Stability Issues in WRF High Resolution Model Runs Feb 2011
• Effects of High-Resolution Snow Cover Initialization on WRF High Resolution Model Runs Feb 2011
• Winter 2010 Temperature Bias
• Oct 2009 Meeting
  • Cloud Water Initialization
  • PBL Scheme Stats for July-August 2008 and January-February 2009
  • RRTG Radiation Scheme
  • Nudging and Clouds
• November 2009 Meeting
  • Early 4/3-km Runs for 2009110212
• Older test cases, for 0Z 20 Sep 2008, and November 12 2007 Wind Storm Case at at up to 1 1/3 km
• Strange, linear u-direction precipitation bands caused by the new Kain-Fritsch cumulus scheme in WRF
• Some stats and a plot using local mysql database and GD PERL plot package.
• A loop of pseudo-3D plot of WRF data is found here. This was created by using gnuplot and PERL. (refer to gnuplot.notes)

References:

• YSU MWR Sep 2006, vol 134 issue 9 or local copyfile:///home/disk/frosty/ovens/ysu_pbl.pdf
• Vis5d
• file:///home/disk/frosty/ovens/index.html test
• file:///home/frosty/ovens/index.html test

Notable Weather Events:

• May 25, 2008 Dryline Thunderstorms

Future Work

• Google Map Interface