Experiences with 0–36-h Explicit Convective Forecasts with the WRF-ARW Model

By M. Weisman, Christopher A. Davis, Wei Wang, Kevin W. Manning, Joseph B. Klemp. 2008

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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Entrainment and detrainment in cumulus convection: an overview (2013, unknown): “2011), (Weisman et al. 2008), and (Staniforth and Wood 2008)).”
Atmospheric Predictability: Why Butterflies Are Not of Practical Importance (2014, background): “The ssLRSmodel is also unable to correctly describe the dynamics of convective clouds, which have relatively limited predictability (Hohenegger and Sch€ar 2007; Weisman et al. 2008) and dominate the dynamics of small-scale atmospheric motions in many important regions of the globe.”
Confronting the Challenge of Modeling Cloud and Precipitation Microphysics (2020, background): “…of cloud, weather, and climate modeling are sensitive to the representation of these microphysical processes (e.g., Clark et al., 2012; Gettelman et al., 2013; Posselt & Lohmann, 2009; Stein et al., 2015; Weisman et al., 2008; among many others; see also Khain et al., 2015 and references therein).”
Probabilistic Forecast Guidance for Severe Thunderstorms Based on the Identification of Extreme Phenomena in Convection-Allowing Model Forecasts (2011, background): “Unfortunately, like coarser-resolution models, CAMs typically produce forecasts that err in predictions of the phase, amplitude, and sometimes even occurrence of weather events, especially small-scale features such as individual thunderstorms (Weisman et al. 2008).”
Sensitivity of a Simulated Squall Line to Horizontal Resolution and Parameterization of Microphysics (2012, unknown): “The model is integrated using the split-explicit Runge– Kutta scheme for compressible equation sets following Wicker and Skamarock (2002). The simulations herein use a sixth-order flux-form advection scheme in the horizontal and a fifth-order scheme in the vertical.”
Mixing‐length controls on high‐resolution simulations of convective storms (2013, unknown): “A number of studies (Lean et al., 2008; Kain et al., 2008; Weisman et al., 2008; Schwartz et al., 2009; Kendon et al., 2012) have shown that such models yield qualitatively more realistic precipitation fields and are quantitatively more skilful than lower-resolution simulations with parametrized…”
Use of NWP for Nowcasting Convective Precipitation: Recent Progress and Challenges (2014, methodology): “More detailed examinations by Weisman et al. (2008) showed that the convection-permitting forecasts often realistically represent the initiation, structure, and evolution of mesoscale convective phenomena.”
CONVECTIVE-SCALE WARN-ON-FORECAST SYSTEM: A vision for 2020 (2009, background): “…to improve hurricane intensity and track forecasting because model grid spacing as small as 1 km is likely needed for accurate hurricane forecasts (Davis et al. 2008). the weather prediction models will have explicit microphysics more sophisticated than those presently used in operational models.”
A Revised Scheme for the WRF Surface Layer Formulation (2012, methodology): “Although the scheme is widely used for quite different atmospheric investigations (e.g., Weisman et al. 2008; Jingyong et al. 2008; Jiménez et al. 2010a), it uses Kansas-type similarity functions with their limited coverage of atmospheric stabilities.”
Convection‐permitting models: a step‐change in rainfall forecasting (2016, background): “Several studies using traditional verification metrics have found that higher resolution does not deliver more skill (Done et al., 2004; Weisman et al., 2008; Mittermaier et al., 2013), because the benefit of using a high-resolution model is counteracted by the unpredictable nature of the smaller…”
A review on regional convection‐permitting climate modeling: Demonstrations, prospects, and challenges (2015, background): “Nevertheless, some studies have reported improved model behavior at 4 km grid spacing without convection parameterization schemes [Done et al., 2004; Weisman et al., 2008; Schwartz et al., 2009; Prein et al., 2013b].”
Next-Day Convection-Allowing WRF Model Guidance: A Second Look at 2-km versus 4-km Grid Spacing (2009, background): “Kain et al. 2006; Weisman et al. 2008 ) and an important benefit for severe weather forecasters.”