SaWaM WRF physics parameterization scheme combination #12 (RUN12)

doi:10.26050/WDCC/SaWaM_WRF_phys_par_comb_r12

Laux, Patrick

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Summary
While climate information from General Circulation Models (GCMs) are usually too coarse for climate impact modelers or decision makers from various disciplines (e.g., hydrology, agriculture), Regional Climate Models (RCMs) and Regional Earth System Models (RESMs) provide feasible solutions for downscaling GCM output to finer spatiotemporal scales. However, it is well known that the model performance depends largely on the choice of the physical parameterization schemes, but optimal configurations may vary from region to region. Besides land-surface processes, the most crucial processes to be parameterized in ESMs include radiation (RA), cumulus convection (CU), cloud microphysics (MP), and planetary boundary layer (PBL), partly with complex interactions. Before conducting long-term climate simulations, it is therefore indispensable to identify a suitable combination of physics parameterization schemes for these processes. Using the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) reanalysis product ERA-Interim as lateral boundary conditions, we derived an ensemble of 16 physics parameterization runs for a larger domain in Northern sub-Saharan Africa (NSSA), northwards of the equator, using two different CU-, MP-, PBL-, and RA schemes, respectively, using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model (Version v3.9) for the period 2006-2010 in a resolution of 0.1 degree horizontal resolution.

Conclusions about suitable physical parameterization schemes may vary within the study area. We therefore want to stimulate the development of own performance evaluation studies for climate simulations or subsequent impact studies over specific (sub-)regions in NSSA. For this reason, selected climate surface variables of the physics ensemble (i.e. the 16 experiments from 2006-2010) are provided.

For more information about the setup of the experiments, please see:
Laux et al., 2021: A high-resolution regional climate model physics ensemble for Northern sub-Saharan Africa. Frontiers in Earth Science (under revision).
Project
SaWaM (Seasonal Water Resources Management for Semiarid Areas: Regionalized Global Data and Transfer to Practise)
Contact
Dr. Patrick Laux (
 patrick.laux@nullkit.edu
0000-0002-8657-6152)
Spatial Coverage
Longitude -18.6 to 47.6 Latitude 0 to 22.6
Temporal Coverage
2006-01-01 to 2010-12-31 (gregorian)
Use constraints
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Data Catalog
World Data Center for Climate
Size
25.60 GiB (27486147880 Byte)
Format
NetCDF
Status
completely archived
Creation Date
Future Review Date
2031-07-18
Cite as
Laux, Patrick (2021). SaWaM WRF physics parameterization scheme combination #12 (RUN12). World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://doi.org/10.26050/WDCC/SaWaM_WRF_phys_par_comb_r12

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F-UJI online v2.2.1 automated
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Checks performed by WDCC. Metrics documentation: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4081213 Metric Version: metrics_v0.5
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2022-12-06
Result Date
2021-08-05
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2021-08-05
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[1] DOI Skamarock, William C.; Klemp, Joseph B.; Dudhia, Jimy; Gill, David O.; Barker, Dale; Duda, Michael G.; Huang, Xiang-yu; Wang, Wei; Powers, Jordan G. (2008). A Description of the Advanced Research WRF Version 3. doi:10.5065/D68S4MVH
[2] WRF Source Codes and Graphics Software Download Page. (2021). https://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/download/get_sources.html

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[1] DOI Laux, Patrick; Dieng, Diarra; Portele, Tanja C.; Wei, Jianhui; Shang, Shasha; Zhang, Zhenyu; Arnault, Joel; Lorenz, Christof; Kunstmann, Harald. (2021). A High-Resolution Regional Climate Model Physics Ensemble for Northern Sub-Saharan Africa. doi:10.3389/feart.2021.700249

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[Entry acronym: SaWaM_WRF_phys_par_comb_r12] [Entry id: 3889835]