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Impact of land surface physics in WRF on the simulation of sea breeze circulation over southeast coast of India

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In this work, the impact of land surface physics in simulating the sea and land breeze circulation along the south east coast of India near Kalpakkam is studied using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model for emergency response application. Simulations were conducted with three different land surface models (LSMs)—5-Layer soil thermal diffusion scheme (5-Layer), Noah land surface model (Noah) and Noah Multi-Physics land surface model (Noah-MP) for different days in summer and southwest monsoon. Observations from meteorological towers, automated weather stations, sonic anemometers and GPS Radiosonde profiles were used for comparison. Results indicate that the Noah-MP followed by Noah schemes produce more realistic simulations of the sea breeze circulation in terms of intensity, onset time, duration, horizontal and vertical extents in most of the studied cases compared to the 5-Layer scheme. Results indicate that the 5-Layer model grossly overestimated air temperature, heat flux and boundary layer height relative to Noah and Noah-MP schemes. The Noah-MP scheme better represented the land-surface feedback in terms of soil temperature, skin temperature and surface energy fluxes leading to more realistic simulations of sea breeze and boundary layer characteristics.

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The authors are thankful to Director, IGCAR for his keen interest and support of the study. The first author is grateful to HBNI and DAE for providing the research fellowship and for extending the facilities to conduct the study. Authors thank the anonymous reviewers for their technical comments and suggestions which greatly helped to improve the contents of the manuscript.

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  1. Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, 400094, India

    B. Revanth Reddy

  2. Radiological and Environmental Safety Division, Health Safety and Environmental Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, 603102, India

    C. V. Srinivas, R. Baskaran & B. Venkatraman

  3. National Remote Sensing Centre, Hyderabad, India

    S. S. Raja Shekhar

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Reddy, B.R., Srinivas, C.V., Shekhar, S.S.R. et al. Impact of land surface physics in WRF on the simulation of sea breeze circulation over southeast coast of India. Meteorol Atmos Phys 132, 925–943 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00703-020-00726-5

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