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solar azimuth angle

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hesselmans

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Solar zenith angle or cosine of this value is included in the wrfout files.
I would like to get the solar azimuth angle as well.
Does anyone know how to do this?
 
solar azimuth angle (sol_azi) is a local variable in phys/module_radiation_driver.F. You can follow the instruction here to output it.
http://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/tutorial/201901/gill_registry.pdf
 
Dear Ming Chen

Please can you check the URL. I am getting the following message:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /wrf/users/tutorial/201901/gill_registry.pdf on this server.

Regards, Gerard
 
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