[Wrf-users] Setting of RADT with multiple nests

[Satyaban Bishoyi Ratna]

Dear Eric,
With your experimental set up, I will prefare to use
radt = 45, 45, 45 as we use for our cases.

WRF document says 
1. recommend 1 min per km of dx
2. use the same value for all nests

So first, we can satisfy condition 1 for the parent domain and next
to follow condition 2 (i.e.) the same 'radt' valuse of outer domain to be used in all the nest domains.

Regards
Satyaban

On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 Eric Altshuler wrote :
>Hello,
>
>I have asked this question before, but I have never gotten a clear answer. I apologize for asking it again.
>
>I am running WRF-ARW with 3 domains: a coarse grid at 45km resolution, an intermediate nest at 15km, and an inner nest at 5km. The WRF documentation says two things about RADT:
>
>1. Set RADT (in minutes) equal to the horizontal resolution (in km), e.g. RADT = 10 for DX = 10000
>2. Set RADT to be the same on all domains
>
>These rules conflict when nesting is used. Obviously, with a 3:1 nesting ratio, it is impossible to satisfy both rules. My question is, which RADT setting should be used here?
>
>a) radt = 45, 45, 45
>b) radt = 15, 15, 15
>c) radt = 5, 5, 5
>d) none of the above?
>
>My intuition is to set radt = 15, 15, 15 but I would appreciate feedback on how users deal with the RADT setting when they run WRF with nesting.
>
>Thanks in advance for your attention.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Eric L. Altshuler
>Assistant Research Scientist
>Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
>4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302
>Calverton, MD 20705-3106
>USA
>
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Satyaban Bishoyi Ratna
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