Articles | Volume 13, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-3179-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-3179-2020
Development and technical paper
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14 Jul 2020
Development and technical paper |  | 14 Jul 2020

Evaluation of three new surface irrigation parameterizations in the WRF-ARW v3.8.1 model: the Po Valley (Italy) case study

Arianna Valmassoi, Jimy Dudhia, Silvana Di Sabatino, and Francesco Pilla

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Development of three new surface irrigation parameterizations in the WRF-ARW model: eval- uation for the Po Valley (Italy) case study Arianna Valmassoi https://doi.org/10.17632/t3b6rtccj9.1

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Irrigation affects the atmosphere and models are required to understand its full impact. However, there is no agreed procedure to describe irrigation within regional models. The present study introduces three new methods to integrate this process into the models and validates it for the Po Valley in northern Italy. All the tests done show that the results are improved with the new irrigation techniques when compared against some measures (e.g., temperature, potential evapotranspiration).