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WRF - Developmental Testbed Center

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g. GFDL surface layer (88): (This scheme is well tested and used operationally atNCEP for H<strong>WRF</strong>.)Land Surface (sf_surface_physics)a. 5-layer thermal diffusion: Soil temperature only scheme, using five layers(sf_surface_physics = 1).b. Noah Land Surface Model: Unified NCEP/NCAR/AFWA scheme with soiltemperature and moisture in four layers, fractional snow cover and frozen soil physics.New modifications are added in Version 3.1 to better represent processes over icesheets and snow covered area (2). (This scheme is well tested for <strong>WRF</strong>-NMM, usedoperationally at NCEP.)c. RUC Land Surface Model: RUC operational scheme with soil temperature andmoisture in six layers, multi-layer snow and frozen soil physics (3). (This scheme hasbeen preliminarily tested for <strong>WRF</strong>-NMM.)d. Pleim-Xiu Land Surface Model. Two-layer scheme with vegetation and sub-gridtiling (7).e. GFDL slab model. Used together with GFDL surface layer scheme (88). (Thisscheme is well tested and used operationally at NCEP for H<strong>WRF</strong>.) New in Version3.2.Planetary Boundary layer (bl_pbl_physics)a. Yonsei University scheme: Non-local-K scheme with explicit entrainment layer andparabolic K profile in unstable mixed layer (bl_pbl_physics = 1). (This scheme hasbeen preliminarily tested for <strong>WRF</strong>-NMM.)b. Mellor-Yamada-Janjic scheme: Eta operational scheme. One-dimensionalprognostic turbulent kinetic energy scheme with local vertical mixing (2). (Thisscheme is well-tested for <strong>WRF</strong>-NMM, used operationally at NCEP.)c. NCEP Global Forecast System scheme: First-order vertical diffusion scheme ofTroen and Mahrt (1986) further described in Hong and Pan (1996). The PBL height isdetermined using an iterative bulk-Richardson approach working from the groundupward whereupon the profile of the diffusivity coefficient is specified as a cubicfunction of the PBL height. Coefficient values are obtained by matching the surfacelayerfluxes. A counter-gradient flux parameterization is included (3). (This scheme iswell tested and used operationally at NCEP for H<strong>WRF</strong>.) Updated in Version 3.2.d. MRF scheme: Older version of (a) with implicit treatment of entrainment layer aspart of non-local-K mixed layer (99).<strong>WRF</strong>-NMM V3: User’s Guide 5-6

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