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IHOP 12 and 4 km Domains
NOTE: For the reruns currently planned, only the 12km domain will be used! The table below shows the configuration used for the reruns.
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MM5 12km |
WRF 12km |
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Grid Spacing |
12 km |
12 km |
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Nesting |
NA |
NA |
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East-West Dimension |
151 |
151 |
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North-South Dimension |
139 |
139 |
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Vertical Levels |
42* (41 layers) |
42* (41 layers) |
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Advection Timestep |
30 seconds |
50 seconds |
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Dynamic Solver |
2nd order
leapfrog with time-splitting for acoustic modes, precip fall, etc. |
3rd order
Runge-Kutta scheme using the Eulerian mass-coordinate core |
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Microphysics |
Schultz II* |
NCEP 5-class* |
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Convective Scheme |
None* |
None* |
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PBL Scheme |
MRF (Hong-Pan) |
MRF (Hong-Pan) |
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Land Surface Model |
5-Layer |
5-Layer |
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Longwave Radiation |
RRTM |
RRTM |
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Shortwave Radiation |
Dudhia |
Dudhia |
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Model Version |
3.5 |
1.3 with mods to
microphysics (zeroing out mixing ratios < 1e-7) |
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Download Config Files |
* Represent values changed
from the original real-time “operational” configuration
Directories of Interest:
gizmo:/usr/nfs/common/lapb/parallel/laps/template/ihop/baseline/mm5
-> Templates for MM5 configuration
gizmo:/usr/nfs/common/lapb/parallel/laps/template/ihop/baseline/wrf12
-> Templates for WRF 12-km configuration
ijet:/p41/ihoplaps ->
Work area on ijet
Questions/Comments: Brent Shaw