Articles | Volume 15, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-669-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-669-2022
Methods for assessment of models
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26 Jan 2022
Methods for assessment of models | Highlight paper |  | 26 Jan 2022

Numerically consistent budgets of potential temperature, momentum, and moisture in Cartesian coordinates: application to the WRF model

Matthias Göbel, Stefano Serafin, and Mathias W. Rotach

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Interactive discussion

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on gmd-2021-171', Anonymous Referee #1, 17 Aug 2021
    • AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Matthias Göbel, 20 Aug 2021
      • RC2: 'Reply on AC1', Anonymous Referee #1, 20 Aug 2021
  • RC3: 'Comment on gmd-2021-171', Anonymous Referee #2, 03 Sep 2021
    • AC2: 'Reply on RC3', Matthias Göbel, 17 Sep 2021
  • RC4: 'Comment on gmd-2021-171', Anonymous Referee #3, 06 Sep 2021
    • AC3: 'Reply on RC4', Matthias Göbel, 17 Sep 2021

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload
AR by Matthias Göbel on behalf of the Authors (17 Sep 2021)  Author's response   Author's tracked changes   Manuscript 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (21 Sep 2021) by James Kelly
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (28 Sep 2021)
RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (03 Oct 2021)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (22 Nov 2021) by James Kelly
AR by Matthias Göbel on behalf of the Authors (22 Nov 2021)  Author's response   Author's tracked changes   Manuscript 
ED: Publish as is (23 Nov 2021) by James Kelly
AR by Matthias Göbel on behalf of the Authors (16 Dec 2021)
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Short summary
We present WRFlux, an open-source software that allows numerically consistent, time-averaged budget evaluation of prognostic variables for the numerical weather prediction model WRF as well as the transformation of the budget equations from the terrain-following grid of the model to the Cartesian coordinate system. We demonstrate the performance and a possible application of WRFlux and illustrate the detrimental effects of approximations that are inconsistent with the model numerics.