Articles | Volume 13, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-521-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-521-2020
Development and technical paper
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11 Feb 2020
Development and technical paper |  | 11 Feb 2020

Implementation of a roughness sublayer parameterization in the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF version 3.7.1) and its evaluation for regional climate simulations

Junhong Lee, Jinkyu Hong, Yign Noh, and Pedro A. Jiménez

Model code and software

Roughness sublayer model for the WRF J. Lee, J. Hong, Y. Noh, and P. Jimenez https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3456293

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As the computing power increases, the grid size of atmospheric models moves toward the gray zone of turbulence (the scales on the order of the energy-containing range). Nevertheless, the roughness sublayer, which is a compartment of the inertial sublayer, has not been considered in high-resolution mesoscale models. This study coupled a roughness sublayer parameterization into the Weather Research and Forecasting model and evaluated its performance to simulate climate near the Earth's surface.