jliu
September 26, 2019, 4:20pm
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I am new user of wrf-cmaq. The wrf and cmaq both seperately runs ok, but when I coupled the wrf and cmaq, an error happened. I am using the wrf3.8 and cmaq5.2 version, and downloaded the “WRF3.8_CMAQ5.2_TwoWay_Model.tar.gz”.
Please help me to figure it out if you know this.
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# 13. WRF-CMAQ Coupled Model
## 13.1 Introduction
Air quality models are typically run in two different ways:
* Standalone – Archived output from a meteorological model is used to drive the air quality model.
* Coupled – The air quality and meteorological models are run simultaneously and the chemistry can impact the weather.
The latter “coupled” method is beneficial for studying important interactions between present of aerosol and weather. For example, aerosols can affect the amount of sunlight that reaches the surface, thus impacting temperature (aerosol direct effect). Aerosols also have important impacts on cloud formation (aerosol indirect effect) and cloud albedo. CMAQ has been coupled to the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model for this purpose with the emphasis on aerosol direct effect. In addition, meteorological information is passing to CMAQ in a high frequency than standalone mode.
In the WRF-CMAQ coupled model (Wong et al., 2012), WRF and CMAQ are simultaneously integrated and information from CMAQ, like aerosol concentration, is passed into WRF so that the present of aerosol can impact the weather. Specifically, the CMAQv5.3 coupled model gives users the options to pass aerosol optical properties to the radiation modules in WRF (aerosol direct radiative effects). The ability to pass aerosol information into the cloud microphysics routines (aerosol indirect effects; Yu et al, 2014) is currently under development and will be available in a future release.
## 13.2 Aerosol Direct Radiative Feedback Effects
Aerosol information from CMAQ is transferred to the meteorological model, WRF. Wavelength dependent aerosol optical properties (extinction, single scattering albedo, and asymmetry factor) are estimated using aerosol composition and size distribution information simulated by CMAQ in conjunction with an algorithm based on Mie theory. Black carbon is treated by the core-shell approach developed by Frank Binkowski based on Bohren and Huffman (1983). This has been implemented in the shortwave Rapid Radiative Transfer Model for General Circulation Models (RRTMG) radiation scheme in WRF, where aerosol optical properties are calculated for 14 wavelength bands (Clough et al. 2005). The aerosol optics calculations in the WRF-CMAQ model were assessed through comparison to measured optical properties of ambient aerosols made during the Carbonaceous Aerosol and Radiation Effects Study (CARES) as detailed by Gan et al. (2015a).
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geek
November 6, 2019, 4:59pm
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Hi!
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