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Adding do_radar_ref to novel microphysics schemes

TyBuck

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Hi there,

I have recently built a novel microphysics scheme which, in essence, is a carbon copy of WSM6 with a lightning nudging block.

The scheme has been constructed and hooked into the model correctly with realistic output being produced. However, I would like to add the ability for radar reflectivity to be outputted to my wrfout files using do_radar_ref. The exact same block that exists in WSM6 for do_radar_ref is also present in my new scheme, but all values of REFL_10CM are empty.

Given it is stated that do_radar_ref only works for certain microphysics schemes, can someone point me to where the control for this is? I'd like to see if adding schemes is plausible.

Thanks,
 
Hi,

if I understand your question correctly, there is a namelist option that controls whether to do radar reflectivity calculation.

do_radar_ref = 1 allows radar reflectivity to be computed .

Please see run/README.namelist for this option.
 
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