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Northern California WRF

Physics change. Details here

Domain 1: 36km

Domain 2: 12km

Domain 3: 4km

Model Statistics

This is the Northern California WRF that commences daily at 00Z (4am PST) and 12Z (4pm PST). The model is initialized off the 12km North American Mesoscale model and ran for the entire 84 hour period.
Latest Run Started At 05/24/12 06:48 Local Time
Latest Run Finished At 05/24/12 09:48 Local Time


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  • WRFV3.2.1 ARW Core

    • Domain 1: 36km with 10m (~19km) terrain resolution
        • Cumulus Parameterization: Kain-Fritsch scheme
        Actual resolved terrain can be found here

    • Domain 2: 12km with 30s (~9km) terrain resolution
        • Cumulus Parameterization: Kain-Fritsch scheme
        Actual resolved terrain can be found here

    • Domain 3: 4km with 30s (~0.9km) terrain resolution
        • Cumulus Parameterization: none
        Actual resolved terrain can be found here

    • Microphysics: WRF Single-Moment 5-class scheme
    • Longwave Radiation: RRTMG scheme
    • Shortwave Radiation: Dudhia scheme
    • Planetary Boundary layer: Yonsei University scheme
    • Land Surface Model: Noah (surface temps modified)
    • 6th Order Horizontal Diffusion: 0.10
    • 2 way nesting
    • Vertical levels: 35

Contact: Travis Wilson
twilson@atmos.ucla.edu