100 m wind speed

[minimax]

Hi everyone,

I am using cesm 2.2.2 and F2000climo compset. Is there a way to output 100m wind speed from CESM?

Thanks a lot!

 

[dbailey]

You have to diagnose the 100m wind speed somehow. However, I will move this to the CAM forums and perhaps there is a better answer.

 

[peverley]

Hi,

Dave is correct. You'll need to diagnose the wind at 100m somehow, and it won’t be precise. Probably by outputting your pressures and the actual height of each pressure level (Z3?), then somehow interpolate between those heights to 100 m. But in CESM2, that it’s going to be somewhere near the first/second atmospheric levels and it might be kind of tough… So the short answer is the there’s no way in CESM2 to output values at a specific height above ground, no. Anything would have to be done in post-processing.

Hope that helps,
Courtney