[Wrf-users] RAINC, RAINNC, or RAINC+RAINNC?

Reginaldo Ventura de Sá regis at lamma.ufrj.br
Thu Sep 19 10:32:11 MDT 2013


Hi Gisele,

Rainfall Output:

RAINC comes from cumulus scheme.

RAINNC comes from microphysics scheme.

Total precipitation is RAINC + RAINNC.

Att.,


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On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Gisele dos Santos Zepka <
giselezepka at bol.com.br> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> In order to identify the best combination of cumulus+microphysics
> parameterizations that provides the precipitation associated with a MCS,
> I run several WRF simulations testing different schemes combinations. I
> have the observed rainfall data and I intend to compare them with the
> model rainfall outputs. As I am working with high space resolution (2
> km), in some simulations I also turned off the convection scheme. My
> question is what precipitation variable from WRF should I use to make
> this analysis: RAINC, RAINNC, or RAINC+RAINNC?
>
> Any help will be great.
>
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