Model Info
The Meteorological Forecast Modelling system run at Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) bases on the Weather Research & Forecasting (WRF) model (Michalakes et al., 2005; Skamarock et al., 2005; Skamarock and Klemp, 2007). WRF provides the meteorology dynamical parameters as inputs to the Air Quality Forecasting System in development at BSC-CNS.
Cloud cover, radar reflectivity, surface winds and sea level pressure form a numerical weather simulation
WRF dynamical and physical options used for the simulations are: ARW dynamical core; Yonsei University PBL scheme; Kain-Fritsch cumulus scheme; single-moment 3-class microphysics' scheme; RRTM for long-wave radiation scheme and Dudhia scheme for short-wave shceme; and the Noah Land Surface Model. Initialization and boundary conditions for the mesoscale model are introduced with forecast data of the Global Forecast System of the National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). Data are available at a 0.5-degree resolution (50-km approx. at the working latitude) at the standard pressure levels every 6 hours.
References:
Michalakes, J., J. Dudhia, D. Gill, T. Henderson, J. Klemp, W. Skamarock, and W. Wang, 2005: The Weather Research and Forecasting Model: Software architecture and performance. Proceedings of the Eleventh ECMWF Workshop on the Use of High Performance Computing in Meteorology. Eds. W. Zwiefhofer and G. Mozdzynski, World Scientific, 2005, pp 156 – 168.
Skamarock, W. C., J. B. Klemp, J. Dudhia, D. O. Gill, D. M. Barker, W. Wang and J. G. Powers, 2005: A Description of the Advanced Research WRF Version 2. NCAR Technical note NCAR/TN-468+STR.
Skamarock, W. C., and J. B. Klemp, 2007: A time-split nonhydrostatic atmospheric model for research and NWP applications. J. Comp. Phys., special issue on environmental modeling. Accepted.
