Studies regarding the quality of numerical weather forecasts of the WRF model integrated at high-resolutions for the Romanian territory

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Published: 2015-12-27
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20937/ATM.2016.29.01.02
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Numerical modeling, high resolution, forecast verification, statistical scores

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Amalia Iriza
National Meteorological Administration Sos. Bucuresti-Pliesti, nr. 97 Bucharest
Rodica C. Dumitrache
National Meteorological Administration, Sos. Bucuresti-Ploiesti, nr. 97, Bucharest, Romania
Aurelia Lupascu
National Meteorological Administration, Sos. Bucuresti-Ploiesti, nr. 97, Bucharest, Romania; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington
Sabina Stefan
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, P.O. Box MG-11, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the quality of high-resolution weather forecasts from the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) numerical weather prediction model. The lateral and boundary conditions were obtained from the numerical output of the Consortium for Small-scale Modeling (COSMO) model at 7 kmhorizontal resolution. The WRF model was run for January and July 2013 at two horizontal resolutions(3 and 1 km). The numerical forecasts of the WRF model were evaluated using different statistical scores for 2 m temperature and 10 m wind speed. Results showed a tendency of the WRF model to overestimate the values of the analyzed parameters in comparison to observations.

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Vol. 29 No. 1 (2016)

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Amalia Iriza, National Meteorological Administration Sos. Bucuresti-Pliesti, nr. 97 Bucharest

University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, P.O. Box MG-11, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania; National Meteorological Administration, Sos. Bucuresti-Ploiesti, nr. 97, Bucharest, Romania

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Studies regarding the quality of numerical weather forecasts of the WRF model integrated at high-resolutions for the Romanian territory. (2015). Atmósfera, 29(1), 11-21. https://doi.org/10.20937/ATM.2016.29.01.02

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