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

Journal Article · Thu Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 2015 · Atmosfera

DOI: https://doi.org/10.20937/ATM.2016.29.01.02 · OSTI ID:1349084

Iriza, Amalia ^[1]; Dumitrache, Rodica C. ^[2]; Lupascu, Aurelia ^[3]; Stefan, Sabina ^[4]

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1. Univ. of Bucharest and National Meteorological Administration, Bucharest (Romania)
2. National Meteorological Administration, Bucharest (Romania)
3. National Meteorological Administration, Bucharest (Romania); Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
4. Univ. of Bucharest (Romania)

Our paper aims 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 km horizontal resolution. Furthermore, 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. Our results showed a tendency of the WRF model to overestimate the values of the analyzed parameters in comparison to observations.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• Grant/Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 1349084
• Report Number(s): PNWD-SA--10553
• Journal Information: Atmosfera, Journal Name: Atmosfera Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 29; ISSN 0187-6236
• Publisher: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de MexicoCopyright Statement
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English