PPT Slide
WRF Model Testing and Verification Strategy
Analytic and converged numerical solutions
- Inviscid dynamics (baroclinic instability, frontogenesis)
- Buoyancy driven flow (gravity currents, warm thermals)
- Topographic flow (nonhydrostatic, hydrostatic, inertial-gravity mountain waves)
- Moist convection (idealized convection with constant eddy mixing)
Regime dependence of nonlinear flows
- Topographic flow (finite amplitude waves, wave overturning, lee vortices)
- Moist convection (convective behavior as a function of CAPE and shear)
Observational case studies
- Extratropical cyclones (STORM-FEST case)
- Topographic flow (downslope windstorm, orographic precip., cold-air damming)
- Moist convection (supercell case, squall-line case, multi-parameter radar case)
- PBL-surface physics (1-D diurnal cycle, sea-breeze case, marine inversion and CTD)
- Tropical cyclone (COMPARE case)