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Development and evaluation of a mosaic/tiling approach in the WRF-Noah
framework
Dan Li1
Elie Bou-Zeid1, Michael Barlage2, Fei Chen2, James A. Smith1
1: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University
2: Research Applications Laboratory (RAL), National Center for Atmospheric Research
The 14th Annual WRF Users' Workshop
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Introduction to the mosaic/tiling approach
Evaluation against observations Case 1: a clear day, 2009-07-14 Case 2: a rainfall period, 2008-07-21 to 2008-
07-27
Conclusions
Outline
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Real World: multiple “tiles” within a “grid cell”
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dx
dy
Grassland 54%
Forest 9%
Urban 27%
Water 6%Wetland
4%
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Modelling World: dominant vs mosaic
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WRF-Noah WRF-Noah-mosaic (N=3)
Grassland 100%
Urban 30%
Forest
10%
Grassland 60%
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Urban environments provide a good test bed for this mosaic/tiling approach due to the considerable surface heterogeneities and the substantial differences between different surface types (e.g., impervious surface and vegetated surface).
Despite that high-resolution (~1–3 km) numerical simulations are usually conducted in urban environments, the sub-grid scale variability of land surface characteristics remains important.
Hypothesis
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Domain configuration
NLCD2006: 30 m resolution, 3 urban categories
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the Rapid Radiative Transfer Model (RRTM) scheme for longwave radiation
the Dudhia scheme for shortwave radiation the 2D Smagorinsky scheme for horizontal diffusion the Mellor-Yamada-Janjic planetary boundary layer
scheme the WSM-6 scheme for microphysics the Single-layer Urban Canopy Model for urban physics North America Regional Reanalysis (NARR)
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WRF other physics and forcing
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Introduction to the mosaic/tiling approach
Evaluation against observations Case 1: a clear day, 2009-07-14 Case 2: a rainfall period, 2008-07-21 to 2008-
07-27
Conclusions
Outline
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A clear-day case: fluxes at Cub hill
dx= 1km
dy= 1km
Dryland cropland
25%Deciduous
broadleaf forest22%
Low density urban40%
Others13%
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A clear-day case: fluxes at Cub hill
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A clear-day case: fluxes at Cub hill
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A clear-day case: MODIS over d03
MODIS-observed land surface temperature pattern over d03 at about 12:30 PM.
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A rainfall period: Boundary layer profiles
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A rainfall period: Boundary layer profiles
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A rainfall period: rainfall distribution
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The impact of N
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A mosaic/tiling approach is developed and tested within the WRF-Noah framework.
It generally shows better performance over the dominant approach in the domain that we examined here, especially under clear-sky conditions.
Simulated results are sensitive to the number of tiles.
Conclusions
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Thank you !
Acknowledgements: This work is supported by NSF under grant CBET-1058027 and by the Mid-Infrared Technology for Health and the Environment (MIRTHE) NSF center at Princeton University (Grant EEC-0540832). The simulations were performed on the supercomputing clusters of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and of Princeton University. The authors also thank Mary Lynn at Princeton University for helping us process some of the experimental data sets.
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The atmospheric properties are uniform across the grid.
The land-atmosphere coupling is uniform across the grid.
Each land-cover tile has a soil tile associated with it, but the soil properties are uniform across the grid.
For grid cells that are dominated by water/sea-ice, the mosaic
approach is not used. For grid cells that are not dominated by water/sea-ice, water/sea-ice tiles are not considered.
A few assumptions
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SWin LWin
A clear-day case
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The thermal roughness (zot) parameterization Previous studies have shown that the thermal
roughness parameterization has an importance impact on the simulated land surface temperature1,2.
Zilitinkevich vs CZ093
1, Li and Bou-Zeid (2013) Synergistic Interactions between Urban Heat Islands and Heat Waves: the Impact in Cities is Larger than the Sum of its Parts. J Appl Meteorol Clim. (in press).2, Li and Bou-Zeid (2013) Quality and Sensitivity of High-Resolution Numerical Simulation of Urban Heat Islands. Environmental Research Letters. (in review).3, Chen and Zhang (2009) On the coupling strength between the land surface and the atmosphere: From viewpoint of surface exchange coefficients Geophys. Res. Lett. 36 L10404
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1, Li and Bou-Zeid (2013) Synergistic Interactions between Urban Heat Islands and Heat Waves: the Impact in Cities is Larger than the Sum of its Parts. J Appl Meteorol Clim. (in press).2, Li and Bou-Zeid (2013) Quality and Sensitivity of High-Resolution Numerical Simulation of Urban Heat Islands. Environmental Research Letters. (in review).3, Chen and Zhang (2009) On the coupling strength between the land surface and the atmosphere: From viewpoint of surface exchange coefficients Geophys. Res. Lett. 36 L10404
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The UCM temperature