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https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-153
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-153
21 Mar 2023
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Meteorological modeling sensitivity to parameterizations and satellite-derived surface datasets during the 2017 Lake Michigan Ozone Study

Jason A. Otkin, Lee M. Cronce, Jonathan L. Case, R. Bradley Pierce, Monica Harkey, Allen Lenzen, David S. Henderson, Zac Adelman, Tsengel Nergui, and Christopher R. Hain

Abstract. High-resolution simulations were performed to assess the impact of different parameterization schemes, surface initialization datasets, and analysis nudging on lower-tropospheric conditions near Lake Michigan. Simulations were run where climatological or coarse-resolution surface initialization datasets were replaced by high-resolution, real-time datasets depicting lake surface temperatures (SST), green vegetation fraction (GVF), and soil moisture and temperature (SOIL). Comparison of a baseline simulation employing a configuration similar to that used at the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) to another simulation employing an alternative set of parameterization schemes (referred to as “YNT”) showed that the EPA configuration produced more accurate analyses on the outermost 12-km resolution domain, but that the YNT configuration was superior for higher-resolution nests. The diurnal evolution of the surface energy fluxes was similar in both simulations on the 12-km grid but differed greatly on the 1.3-km grid where the EPA simulation had much smaller sensible heat flux during the daytime and physically unrealistic ground heat flux. Switching to the YNT configuration led to substantial decreases in root mean square error for 2-m temperature and 2-m water vapor mixing ratio on the 1.3-km grid. Additional improvements occurred when the high-resolution satellite-derived surface datasets were incorporated into the modeling platform, with the SOIL dataset having the largest positive impact on temperature and water vapor. The GVF and SST datasets also produced more accurate temperature and water vapor analyses, but degradations in wind speed, especially when using the GVF dataset. The most accurate simulations were obtained when using the high-resolution SST and SOIL datasets and analysis nudging above 2 km AGL.

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We performed model simulations to assess the impact of different parameterization schemes, surface initialization datasets, and analysis nudging on lower-tropospheric conditions near Lake Michigan. Simulations were run with high-resolution, real-time datasets depicting lake surface temperatures, green vegetation fraction, and soil moisture. The most accurate results were obtained when using high-resolution sea surface temperature and soil datasets to constrain the model simulations.