WRF 27 km The Advanced Research Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF-ARW) model was initialized at 06 UTC each day and run for 42 hours with the first 18 hours discarded as model spin-up. WRF model options: Microphysics scheme: WRF Single-Moment 3-class scheme Longwave and shortwave radiation schemes: RRTMG Surface layer scheme: MM5 similarity Land surface model: Noah Land Surface Model PBL parameterization: UW (Bretherton and Park) scheme Cumulus parameterization: Grell-Freitas scheme Initial and boundary conditions: North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) Analysis nudging: NARR Observational nudging 1980-1999: NCEP ADP operational global surface (ds464.0) and global upper air (ds353.4) observations Observational nudging 2000-: NCEP ADP global surface (ds461.0) and global upper air (ds351.0) observational weather data WRF grid: WEST-EAST_PATCH_END_STAG = 217 SOUTH-NORTH_PATCH_END_STAG = 175 BOTTOM-TOP_PATCH_START_STAG = 1 BOTTOM-TOP_PATCH_END_STAG = 34 CEN_LAT = 37.00001 CEN_LON = -98. TRUELAT1 = 25. TRUELAT2 = 50. MOAD_CEN_LAT = 37.00001 STAND_LON = -98. POLE_LAT = 90. POLE_LON = 0. MAP_PROJ_CHAR = "Lambert Conformal" eta_levels = 1.000, 0.998, 0.996, 0.993, 0.990, 0.985, 0.980, 0.975, 0.970, 0.960, 0.950, 0.940, 0.930, 0.920, 0.910, 0.895, 0.880, 0.865, 0.850, 0.825, 0.800, 0.775, 0.750, 0.720, 0.660, 0.570, 0.475, 0.370, 0.250, 0.145, 0.090, 0.045, 0.025, 0.000 Additional details of ARL formatted files: Daily files with instantaneous winds are located in the inst subdirectory. Daily files with mass coupled time average winds are in the avg subdirectory. 34 Sigma Levels: 1.0000, 0.99900, 0.99700, 0.99450, 0.99150, 0.98750, 0.98250, 0.97750, 0.97250, 0.96500, 0.95500, 0.94500, 0.93500, 0.92500, 0.91500, 0.90250, 0.88750, 0.87250, 0.85750, 0.83750, 0.81250, 0.78750, 0.76250, 0.73500, 0.69000, 0.61500, 0.52250, 0.42250, 0.31000, 0.19750, 0.11750, 0.06750, 0.03500, 0.01250 27 km horizontal resolution Lambert Conformal Grid 216x174 grid cells Spatial Domain: 13.2321N 122.8906W to 51.8331N 55.6678W Model Type: AWRF Grid Numb: 99 Vert Coord: 1 Pole Lat: 37.86 Pole Lon: -98.00 Ref Lat: 25.00 Ref Lon: -98.00 Grid Size: 27.00 Orientation: 0.00 Cone Angle: 37.86 Sync X Pt: 108.50 Sync Y Pt: 87.50 Sync Lat: 37.00 Sync Lon: -98.00 Reserved: 100.00 Numb X pt: 216 Numb Y pt: 174 Numb Levels: 34 Instantaneous winds in inst subdirectory: Surface Variables: SHGT PRSS TPP1 DIFR PBLH USTR DSWF SHTF LHTF T02M U10M V10M Upper Levels: PRES TEMP UWND VWND WWND DIFW SPHU Mass coupled time averagerd winds in avg subdirectory: Surface Variables: SHGT PRSS TPP1 DIFR PBLH USTR RGHS DSWF SHTF LHTF T02M U10M V10M MSFT MSFV MSFU MUU0 MUV0 MUBA MUPE Upper levels: PRES THET UWND VWND WWND DIFW SPHU TKEN DIFT