Scheduled Downtime
On Friday 21 April 2023 @ 5pm MT, this website will be down for maintenance and expected to return online the morning of 24 April 2023 at the latest

Initial lake temperatures from nearest SSTs?

This post was from a previous version of the WRF&MPAS-A Support Forum. New replies have been disabled and if you have follow up questions related to this post, then please start a new thread from the forum home page.

S

stormchasegenie

Member
Greetings,

I just realized that my lake temperatures are not being initialized to TAVGSFC because I did not process this in WPS. However, in WRF, I am running with the lake model on (sf_lake_physics = 1). What is the initial lake temperature? Is it the nearest SST value, or is it an assumed profile? I couldn't exactly tell from digging through the code...

Thanks,
-Stefan
 
Stefan,
If you didn't run avg_tsfc.exe, then the initial skin temperature over lake is extrapolated SST from the nearby ocean.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top