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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">Good morning</font> everyone:</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">Has anyone attempted to calculate mass budget approach (heat/moisture etc...) over a specific area of your domains? I am looking at the solenoidal circulation that develops around the Santa Catalina Mtns, near Tucson,
AZ and its interaction with moist convection that develops over the higher terrain. At this time, I am using a 30x30 km^2 box centering on the mountain and calculating the horizontal and vertical mass fluxes (in units of Kg/s) for several different boxes,
most specifically 2 boxes inside the PBL. The first box being the surface to mid-PBL then mid-PBL to PBL-top. I am running into issues comparing the fluxes as the numbers for each box suggest a dynamically, unstable model as we all know WRF is definitely stable.
I have attached an IDV images of a forecast hour illustrating the box levels w/r/t the mountain and subsequent flux numbers (all x10^6 kg/s). I am starting to believe theses errors or residuals are a combination of finite differencing and conversion from sigma
to pressure surface errors???? Would love to hear what everyone is thinking or have successfully tried this avenue.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">Thanks,</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">Cory Demko</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma"><font size="2" face="tahoma">Ph.D</font> Candidate</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">Atmospheric Science</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">University of Wyoming</font></div>
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