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<div>Just would like to add that this method reliabily is about 50% (fifty-fifty)</div>
<div>and can not be used in many applications like direct solar irradience calculation</div>
<div>or numerical development od 3-D or 4-D deep convection. It is from my own one</div>
<div>and other researchers experience.</div>
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<div>Much more accurate to use 3 second satellite data instead (like MERRA) as a diagnostic ones</div>
<div>or assimilate them for short-term forecast.</div>
<div>Regards</div>
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<div>Research Professor Mikhail Titov</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 05, 2014 at 12:42 PM<br/>
<b>From:</b> "Dominikus Heinzeller" <climbfuji@ymail.com><br/>
<b>To:</b> "Yan Españo" <yahnrockz@gmail.com><br/>
<b>Cc:</b> wrf-users@ucar.edu<br/>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Wrf-users] Making cloud cover simulation in WRF 3.3.1 using GFS model.</div>
<div name="quoted-content">Hi Yan,<br/>
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total cloud cover diagnostics are not available from WRF directly. You can use post-processing software such as UPP which reads CLDFRA (model-level cloud fraction) and other fields to calculate low/mid/high/total cloud fraction.<br/>
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Cheers<br/>
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Dom<br/>
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On 4/06/2014, at 12:59 am, Yan Españo <yahnrockz@gmail.com> wrote:<br/>
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> Hi there ! Im new to WRF . Could you please provide me a step by step procedure on how I can be able to make total cloud cover simulation in WRF v 3.3.1 using the GFS model? I do not know where the portion of namelist.input in WRF to manipulate inorder to produce that kind of simulation. Thank you !<br/>
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> -Yan<br/>
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