Wind gust output

[MartinHagman]

Hi!

I am running WRF SCM version 4.3.3. I want to plot the wind gusts every hour, and I know that this variable is parameterized and diagnosed. I wonder if there is a variable for the wind gusts, or/and something I need to set in the namelist.input to get the variable in the output fields? I mean, I can find other diagnosed variables like 2 meter temperature, 10 meter wind and so forth... Or...., do I have to calculate the wind gusts myself with other existing variables?

Best,
Martin Hagman

 

[William.Hatheway]

Hi!

I am running WRF SCM version 4.3.3. I want to plot the wind gusts every hour, and I know that this variable is parameterized and diagnosed. I wonder if there is a variable for the wind gusts, or/and something I need to set in the namelist.input to get the variable in the output fields? I mean, I can find other diagnosed variables like 2 meter temperature, 10 meter wind and so forth... Or...., do I have to calculate the wind gusts myself with other existing variables?

Best,
Martin Hagman

Gust calculation

groups.google.com

This might be useful, it's how gusts can be calculated in python. As for if WRF has a variable I think it does but I don't remember which options have to be turned on to do it

 

[Ming Chen]

The namelist option "output_diagnostics" allows WRF to output 36 surface diagnostic variables including maximum U10 and V10 at specified time intervals. I suppose they can be used to derive wind gust. Details can be found here.