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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
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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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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.
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