Abstract
Nesting means to use time dependent boundary values from a coarser grid simulation in a high-resolution model run. The aim of this work is to evaluate how often the forcing data have to be updated for representing the large-scale development in a realistic way. For our study, the mesoscale model METRAS is used in different resolutions: A coarse grid run provides the forcing fields with update intervals of different length for high-resolution simulations. Besides intervals of a constant length, we used a method to adapt the output times from the coarse-grid run to the time scales, in which the simulated fields change. As first results, we have seen that the simulations are very sensitive to the nesting and the forcing data. Additionally, shorter update intervals for the forcing fields lead to higher model performance and the interval length should be similar for consecutive intervals.
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This work has been supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the framework of the project SCHL499-2 and the Sonderforschungsbereich 512 “Cyclones and the North Atlantic Climate System”. This work is a contribution to COST-728 Action.
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Bungert, U., Schlünzen, K.H. (2010). Impact of Nesting Methods on Model Performance. In: Baklanov, A., Alexander, M., Sokhi, R. (eds) Integrated Systems of Meso-Meteorological and Chemical Transport Models. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13980-2_19
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