[Wrf-users] Varying vertical resolution in nests

[Ligia Bernardet]

Don,

In Monday's WRF Tutorial, Bill Skamarock said that refining the nest in 
the vertical is not an option.

Ligia Bernardet - NOAA FSL


On Jul 26, 2005, at 7:58 PM, Don Morton wrote:

> Hi, I'm wondering if it's possible to vary the vertical, in
> addition to the horizontal, resolution in WRFSI and
> subsequently in the WRF runs. We're wanting to run
> a nested model starting at 36km, down to 12km, and
> then down to 4km. We'd like about 80 levels at the
> 4km horizontal resolution, but much fewer levels
> at the coarser resolution. Is this possible to set up?
>
> I'm only a computer scientist, but the meteorologist I
> work with says this was possible with MM5. I don't
> see an "obvious" way to do this in WRFSI/WRF, but
> I could easily be missing something.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Don
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