Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1737-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1737-2020
Development and technical paper
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02 Apr 2020
Development and technical paper |  | 02 Apr 2020

Towards the closure of momentum budget analyses in the WRF (v3.8.1) model

Ting-Chen Chen, Man-Kong Yau, and Daniel J. Kirshbaum

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Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
AR by Ting-Chen Chen on behalf of the Authors (20 Jan 2020)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (30 Jan 2020) by Chiel van Heerwaarden
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (18 Feb 2020)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (23 Feb 2020) by Chiel van Heerwaarden
AR by Ting-Chen Chen on behalf of the Authors (25 Feb 2020)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Publish as is (28 Feb 2020) by Chiel van Heerwaarden

Post-review adjustments

AA: Author's adjustment | EA: Editor approval
AA by Ting-Chen Chen on behalf of the Authors (27 Mar 2020)   Author's adjustment   Manuscript
EA: Adjustments approved (31 Mar 2020) by Chiel van Heerwaarden
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Short summary
Budget analysis helps to quantify the contribution of different terms in a selected prognostic equation within a numerical simulation. However, it is well acknowledged that non-negligible errors generally exist if such equations are analyzed in model post-processing. Here, we develop an inline budget retrieval method within the WRF model to give a high-accuracy budget closure. We also compare the inline and post-processed budgets to investigate the potential sources of errors in the latter.