WRF JOURNAL

Aguallo, Manila, Arena, Gamba

Objectives:
 To examine cloud microphysical processes during Typhoon Hato’s rapid intensification.
Focusing on ice, snow, and graupel distribution, and investigate associated three-
dimensional latent heating contributions.
 To evaluate the WRF-ARW model’s accuracy in simulating key aspects of Typhoon Hato,
such as its track, intensity, and landfall characteristics.
 To analyze the relationship between intensification speed, peak intensity, and dominant
heating-effect microphysical processes, while assessing in the impact of dominant
cooling-effect processes through sensitivity experiments with different microphysical
parameterization schemes.
Methods:
 Cumulus (Kain-Fritsch), Microphysics (WSM6, Single-moment 6-class), PBL (YSU),
 Model Configuration
o 72-h simulation experiment
o WRF-ARW
o Shadings represent terrain height (m)
o Domains
 DO1: horizontal resolution – 18 km; Stationary
 DO2: horizontal resolution – 6 km; Automatic vortex-following movig
nests
 DO3: horizontal resolution – 2 km; Automatic vortex-following movig
nests

 Model Verification
o Temporal evolution of typhoon intensity from simulated (red) and best-track
(blue)
o Trends of simulated and observed data changes are consistent throughout TC
Hato’s stages.
 54.3 m/s simulated
 52.0 m/s observed
o Radar Reflectivity
 Distribution of Hydrometeors in TC Hato
Discussion:
Macanbinlar, Daria, Abiera, Monda
Objectives:
  To investigate the relative sensitivities of various Cumulus and Microphysics
parameterization schemes in simulation spatio-temporal variations of rainfall during
tropical storm events in Thailand, utilizing the WRF-ROMS model
 To simulate heavy rainfall patterns in Thailand during tropical storm events at a high
horizontal resolution of 3 km and examine the forecast skill associated with different
Cumulus and Microphysics schemes.
Methods:
 Observed rainfall datasets from National Hydroinformatics Data Center (NHC)
 COAWST model, ver. 3.2.
 ROMS (Regional Ocean Modelling System)
 WRF
 WRF-ROMS
o Simulation of interactions between atmosphere and ocean
 Daily Rainfall Classification
Baloloy, David, Lopez, Lorete
Objectives:
 To evaluate the Weather Research Forecasting (WRF) mesoscale model on the simulation
of the hail event particularly to address the uncertainty of the cloud microphysics and the
parameterization of surface energy fluxes in the urban area.
 To study in detail the storm dynamics and cloud microphysics (through CCN) in the
simulation of the hail event
 To understand the impact of urbanization and SST increase in the storm intensity.
Methods:
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