25.12.2012 Views

WRF ARW User's Guide - MMM - UCAR

WRF ARW User's Guide - MMM - UCAR

WRF ARW User's Guide - MMM - UCAR

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

<strong>WRF</strong>-VAR<br />

Note: Make sure that you removed first two lines (header) in cost_fn and grad_fn before<br />

you plot. Also you need to specify the directory name for these two files.<br />

gts_omb_oma_01: It contains (in ASCII format) information on all of the observations<br />

used by the <strong>WRF</strong>-Var run. Each observation has its observed value, quality flag, observation<br />

error, observation minus background (OMB), and observation minus analysis<br />

(OMA). This information is very useful for both analysis and forecasts verification purposes.<br />

namelist.input: This is the <strong>WRF</strong>-Var input namelist file, which contains all the user<br />

defined non-default options. Any namelist defined options that do not appear in this file,<br />

should have their names checked against values in <strong>WRF</strong>DA/Registry/Registry.wrfvar.<br />

namelist.output: A consolidated list of all the namelist options used.<br />

rsl*: Files containing information of standard <strong>WRF</strong>-Var output from individual processors<br />

when multiple processors are used. It contains host of information on number of observations,<br />

minimization, timings etc. Additional diagnostics may be printed in these files<br />

by including various “print” <strong>WRF</strong>-Var namelist options. To learn more about these additional<br />

“print” options, search “print_” string in <strong>WRF</strong>DA/Registry/Registry.wrfvar.<br />

statistics: Text file containing OMB (OI), OMA (OA) statistics (minimum, maximum,<br />

mean and standard deviation) for each observation type and variable. This information<br />

is very useful in diagnosing how <strong>WRF</strong>-Var has used different components of the observing<br />

system. Also contained are the analysis minus background (A-B) statistics i.e.<br />

statistics of the analysis increments for each model variable at each model level. This information<br />

is very useful in checking the range of analysis increment values found in the<br />

analysis, and where they are in the <strong>WRF</strong>-model grid space.<br />

The <strong>WRF</strong>-Var analysis file is wrfvar_output. It is in <strong>WRF</strong> (NetCDF) format. It will become<br />

the input file “wrfinput_d01” of any subsequent <strong>WRF</strong> runs after lateral boundary<br />

<strong>WRF</strong>-<strong>ARW</strong> V3: User’s <strong>Guide</strong> 6-30

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!