Consortium Meeting June 9, 2011
Hit Rates: Canadians Sneaking Back In
Hits
Data Volume
4/3 km Domain Pushed South to Salem
New 1.3 km Domain Now Completely Stable Needed to use small damping of vertically propagating sound waves
Next Stage: Idaho Expansion We now have the processors (3 nodes-24 cores) provided by Idaho to push the domain eastward. Should have no impact on the 4/3 km run time, and other earlier runs will be faster. New processors are being tested now, could try expansion during the next few weeks.
Expansion
Even Bigger?
High-Resolution Snow Update Every Day
May 15
But then a problem appeared in 2-m temps—always near freezing over snow
After talking to WRF experts, who confirmed there is a problem with 2-m temp output, switched to lowest model level—roughly 19 m
Close to Fixing Other Problem: Streakiness (courtesy of Congressman W)
Profiler Data Versus Acars
Profilers and Vertically Pointing Radars
ACARS Soundings at SEA, PDX
Raising Model Top Can we raise it to 50 mb from the current value of 100 mb? Will reduce reflection of gravity waves from model top and recommended by WRF help.