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

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

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-521-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-521-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-521-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

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

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Referee Comment gmd-2019-242', Anonymous Referee #1, 22 Oct 2019
- AC1: 'Response to Referee #1', Jinkyu Hong, 21 Dec 2019
RC2: 'Referee comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 28 Oct 2019
- AC2: 'Response to Referee #2', Jinkyu Hong, 21 Dec 2019
SC1: 'Executive editor comment, code and data availability.', David Ham, 25 Nov 2019
- AC3: 'Response to Executive editor comment, code and data availability', Jinkyu Hong, 21 Dec 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Jinkyu Hong on behalf of the Authors (21 Dec 2019) Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (13 Jan 2020) by Jatin Kala

AR by Jinkyu Hong on behalf of the Authors (13 Jan 2020) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

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.