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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I also checked the TSK at local 1:00 AM, I think it is pretty good, and corresponds well to the land cover patterns.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>-Peng<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=482 height=462 id="_x0000_i1030" src="cid:image001.png@01D1836D.A1DB9010"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Xiaoming Hu [mailto:xhu@ou.edu] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 21, 2016 11:23 AM<br><b>To:</b> Peng Fu; wrf-users@ucar.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Wrf-users] WRF help, TSK simulated with urban canopy model<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Fu,Peng<br><br>During daytime, it is reasonable that urban TSK is lower than the rural TSK since urban area has larger heat capacity. <br>See in my case<br>daytime: <img width=477 height=684 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image002.png@01D1836D.A1DB9010" name="my_image_WRFModel"> nighttime <img width=477 height=684 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image003.png@01D1836D.A1DB9010" name="my_image_WRFModel"><br><a href="http://www.caps.ou.edu/micronet/WRF-UCM/FocusON_OKC/WRFV3.4.1/YSU/wrfNARR5dWSM6_UCM.2003071700/wrfout_d05_TSK_25.png">http://www.caps.ou.edu/micronet/WRF-UCM/FocusON_OKC/WRFV3.4.1/YSU/wrfNARR5dWSM6_UCM.2003071700/wrfout_d05_TSK_25.png</a><br><br>You may read some relevant paper, e.g., <br>Hu, X.-M., P. M. Klein, M. Xue, J. K. Lundquist, F. Zhang, and Y. Qi (2013), <a href="http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JAMC-D-12-0256.1">Impact of low-level jets on the nocturnal urban heat island intensity in Oklahoma City</a>. <em>J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol.</em>, doi:10.1175/JAMC-D-12-0256.1. <br><br>Cheers!<br>Xiaoming<br><br><br>On 03/21/2016 10:00 AM, Peng Fu wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hello,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Below is the MODIS land use data used in WRF. The red is the urban area.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Right now the simulation of surface temperature (TSK) from WRF is much better than what I have before.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>But the problem is that surface temperatures in the non-urban regions is higher than those in the urban regions (I expect higher temperature in the urban areas).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>So what might be the problem? The time for the TSK map is local tine 10 AM.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>MODIS land use data</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=461 height=454 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image004.png@01D1836D.A1DB9010"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>TSK simulation</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=480 height=454 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image005.png@01D1836D.A1DB9010"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> xiaoming Hu [<a href="mailto:yuanfangcan@hotmail.com">mailto:yuanfangcan@hotmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 09, 2016 5:20 PM<br><b>To:</b> Peng Fu; <a href="mailto:wrf-users@ucar.edu">wrf-users@ucar.edu</a><br><b>Cc:</b> Xiaoming Hu<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Wrf-users] WRF help, TSK simulated with urban canopy model</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Is this nighttime TSK? <br>If those red spots match with the urban land use categories? If so, I think it is probably reasonable. <br>I don't see anything wrong with the namelist<br><br>Cheers!<br>Xiaoming <br><a href="http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/H/Xiaoming.Hu-1/">http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/H/Xiaoming.Hu-1/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From: <a href="mailto:fupenghzau@gmail.com">fupenghzau@gmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:wrf-users@ucar.edu">wrf-users@ucar.edu</a><br>Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 15:38:29 -0500<br>Subject: [Wrf-users] WRF help</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hello,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I set up three one-way nested domains to simulate surface temperature. But it look the temperature data is too noisy.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Could someone provide me some suggestions on this? </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I also attached my namelist.input file. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>-Peng </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>TSK</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>MODIS</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br>_______________________________________________ Wrf-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Wrf-users@ucar.edu">Wrf-users@ucar.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/wrf-users">http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/wrf-users</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>