Running COSMO-WRF on very-high resolution over complex terrain

This is a technical documentation of the procedure to run the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model over complex alpine terrain using Consortium for Small-Scale Modeling (COSMO) reanalysis by the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss) as initial and boundary conditions (COMSO-WRF). The setup is adapted for very high resolution simulations based on COSMO-2 (2.2 km resolution) reanalysis. This document gives an overview over steps to setup COSMO-WRF and adaptations needed to run COSMO-WRF. Additionally, the calculation of precipitation rate at a horizontal plane and remapping COSMO-WRF output on Swiss coordinates are documented.

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Identifier 30c985c3-4a14-4cd5-936e-9eb848175812@envidat
Title for URL of the dataset running-cosmo-wrf-on-very-high-resolution-over-complex-terrain
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Issued date January 26, 2018
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