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Using CESM to regionalization with WRF model

Alexsander

Alexsander Barros Silveira
New Member
Greetings,

I intend assess climate change effects on air quality.

In order to capture small scale effects as topograhy and land use (dynamical downscaling), i will use the WRF model to reducing spacial resolution and coupling CMAQ to solve atmospheric transport and chemistry.

However, firstly, i need to couple Global Climate Model Output in WRF input (WPS).

I have seached by models that integrating last IPCC experiment (CMIP6), but i realize that models output is focus on validation Climate Models and not to regionalization effort (lacking data).

I have read some works that assessed USA climate change effects on air quality using CESM1 model because was avaliable format intermediate files to WRF (CISL RDA: NCAR CESM Global Bias-Corrected CMIP5 Output to Support WRF/MPAS Research).

I accessed CMIP5 repository (https://esgf-node.llnl.gov/search/cmip5/) and do not find CESM1 model output, but i found information that CESM1 = CMIP5 CCSM4 Model (CESM 1.0 Experiments, Data and Diagnostics).

Can you answer some dubts?

Best Regards,

Alexsander Barros Silveira

Parameters necessary to initialize WRF model:
Field name in intermediate file
Units
Description
Notes
TT​
K​
3-d air temperature​
-​
RH​
%​
3-d relative humidity​
Not needed if SPECHUMD is available​
SPECHUMD​
kg kg-1​
3-d specific humidity​
Not needed if RH is available​
UU​
m s-1​
3-d wind u-component​
-​
VV​
m s-1​
3-d wind v-component​
-​
GHT​
m​
3-d geopotential height​
-​
PRESSURE​
Pa​
3-d pressure​
Only needed for nonisobaric datasets​
PSFC​
Pa​
Surface pressure​
-​
PMSL​
Pa​
Mean sea-level pressure​
-​
SKINTEMP​
K​
Skin temperature​
-​
SOILHGT​
m​
Soil height​
-​
TT​
K​
2-meter air temperature​
-​
RH​
%​
2-meter relative humidity​
Not needed if SPECHUMD is available​
SPECHUMD​
kg kg-1​
2-meter specific humidity​
Not needed if RH is available​
UU​
m s-1​
10-meter wind u-component​
-​
VV​
m s-1​
10-meter wind v-component​
-​
LANDSEA​
Fração​
Land-sea mask (0=water, 1=land)​
-​
SMtttbbb​
m3 m-3​
Soil moisture​
'ttt' is the layer top depth in cm, and 'bbb' is the layer bottom depth in cm​
STtttbbb​
K​
Soil temperature​
SOILMmmm​
kg m-3​
Soil moisture​
'mmm' is the level depth in cm, not needed if SMtttbbb available​
SOILTmmm​
K​
Soil temperature​
 

strandwg

Moderator
Staff member
Greetings,

I intend assess climate change effects on air quality.

In order to capture small scale effects as topograhy and land use (dynamical downscaling), i will use the WRF model to reducing spacial resolution and coupling CMAQ to solve atmospheric transport and chemistry.

However, firstly, i need to couple Global Climate Model Output in WRF input (WPS).

I have seached by models that integrating last IPCC experiment (CMIP6), but i realize that models output is focus on validation Climate Models and not to regionalization effort (lacking data).

I have read some works that assessed USA climate change effects on air quality using CESM1 model because was avaliable format intermediate files to WRF (CISL RDA: NCAR CESM Global Bias-Corrected CMIP5 Output to Support WRF/MPAS Research).

I accessed CMIP5 repository (https://esgf-node.llnl.gov/search/cmip5/) and do not find CESM1 model output, but i found information that CESM1 = CMIP5 CCSM4 Model (CESM 1.0 Experiments, Data and Diagnostics).

Can you answer some dubts?

Best Regards,

Alexsander Barros Silveira

Parameters necessary to initialize WRF model:
Field name in intermediate file
Units
Description
Notes
TT​
K​
3-d air temperature​
-​
RH​
%​
3-d relative humidity​
Not needed if SPECHUMD is available​
SPECHUMD​
kg kg-1​
3-d specific humidity​
Not needed if RH is available​
UU​
m s-1​
3-d wind u-component​
-​
VV​
m s-1​
3-d wind v-component​
-​
GHT​
m​
3-d geopotential height​
-​
PRESSURE​
Pa​
3-d pressure​
Only needed for nonisobaric datasets​
PSFC​
Pa​
Surface pressure​
-​
PMSL​
Pa​
Mean sea-level pressure​
-​
SKINTEMP​
K​
Skin temperature​
-​
SOILHGT​
m​
Soil height​
-​
TT​
K​
2-meter air temperature​
-​
RH​
%​
2-meter relative humidity​
Not needed if SPECHUMD is available​
SPECHUMD​
kg kg-1​
2-meter specific humidity​
Not needed if RH is available​
UU​
m s-1​
10-meter wind u-component​
-​
VV​
m s-1​
10-meter wind v-component​
-​
LANDSEA​
Fração​
Land-sea mask (0=water, 1=land)​
-​
SMtttbbb​
m3 m-3​
Soil moisture​
'ttt' is the layer top depth in cm, and 'bbb' is the layer bottom depth in cm​
STtttbbb​
K​
Soil temperature​
SOILMmmm​
kg m-3​
Soil moisture​
'mmm' is the level depth in cm, not needed if SMtttbbb available​
SOILTmmm​
K​
Soil temperature​

1. CESM1 is one of the model configurations submitted for CMIP5. The atmospheric model was CAM5; the CCSM4 configuration used CAM4.

2. CESM2 is an improvement on CESM1.

3. We haven't yet created a bias-corrected dataset suitable for forcing WRF from CESM2. That's a project that will need to be discussed with our collaborators in MMM.
 

Alexsander

Alexsander Barros Silveira
New Member
By the way, does we force WRF with output of any Global Climate Model (for example, from CMIP6) using all necessaries meteorological and land-surface fields?
 

strandwg

Moderator
Staff member
By the way, does we force WRF with output of any Global Climate Model (for example, from CMIP6) using all necessaries meteorological and land-surface fields?

I'm not a WRF expert, but if a GCM provides the fields it needs, I should think you could run it with them.
 
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