ARW Short-Range Ensemble Forecasting (SREF) of hurricane Isabel (Sep 2003)

• Version: WRFSI2.1 and WRFV2.1.2
• Grid: 150 x 150 x 36 (15-km grid)
• First-guess and LBC: ETA analysis (40-km)
• LSM fields: AGRMET data
• w_damping=0, diff_opt=1, km_opt=4
• Forecast: 84-h (2003-09-15_12:00:00 ~ 2003-09-19_00:00 UTC)
• Ens_size: 20 members (Table 1)
- Different physics
- perturbation of land use parameters

• albedo 
• moisture availability 
• roughness length
- perturbation of SST

• Experiments
- Exp I : Different physics + surface perturbations (land use & SST) 
- Exp II: Different physics
- Exp III: surface perturbations (land use & SST)

• Evaluation (storm tracks)
• Source codes

• DART/WRF

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Last Updated by So-Young Ha: Oct 18, 2006