Surface and Precipitation Stations - New Mexico Environment ...

CALMET Control File Inputs
Variable Description PNM Value Agreement
with Default
Comments
surface stations 114 stations for 2003
NPSTA Number of precipitation
112 n/a 111 stations for 2002
stations
114 stations for 2003
ICLOUD Gridded cloud fields 0 N
IFORMS Formatted surface
meteorological data file
2 Y
IFORMP Formatted surface
precipitation data file
2 Y
IFORMC Formatted cloud data file 2 Y No additional cloud data used in
the model.
INPUT GROUP 5: Windfield Options and Parameters
IWFCOD Model selection variable 1 Y
IFRADJ Compute Froude number
adjustment factor
1 Y
IKINE Compute kinematic effects 0 Y WRAP BART Modeling Protocol
Recommended Value
IOBR Use O’Brien (1970)
vertical velocity adjustment
0 Y
ISLOPE Compute slope flow effects 1 Y
IEXTRP Extrapolate surface wind
1 N WRAP BART Modeling Protocol
obs to upper level
Recommended Value
ICALM Extrapolate surface winds
if calm
0 Y
BIAS Layer dependent biases
weighting aloft
measurements
NZ*0 Y
RMIN2 Minimum vertical
extrapolation distance
4 Y
IPROG Use gridded prognostic
14 N Use winds from MM5.DAT file as
wind field model output
fields as input to the
diagnostic wind field model
initial guess field
ISTEPPG MM5 output timestep 1 Y
LVARY Use varying radius of
influence
F Y
RMAX1 Maximum radius of
influence over land in sfc
layer
50 n/a
RMAX2 Maximum radius of
influence over land aloft
100 n/a
RMAX3 Maximum radius of
100 n/a WRAP BART Modeling Protocol
influence over water
Recommended Value
RMIN Minimum radius of
influence used anywhere
0.1 Y
TERRAD Terrain feature radius of
influence
10 n/a
R1 Weighting of first guess
surface field
100 n/a
R2 Weighting of first guess
aloft field
200 n/a
RPROG MM4 windfield weighting
0 n/a Not used since IPROG is not equal
parameter
to 1.
B-3 4/13/2007