Evaluation of idealized large-eddy simulations performed with the Weather Research and Forecasting model using turbulence measurements from a 250&thinsp;m meteorological mast

Peña, Alfredo; Kosović, Branko; Mirocha, Jeffrey D.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-6-645-2021

Articles | Volume 6, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-6-645-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-6-645-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 6, issue 3

Research article

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07 May 2021

Research article |

| 07 May 2021

Evaluation of idealized large-eddy simulations performed with the Weather Research and Forecasting model using turbulence measurements from a 250 m meteorological mast

Alfredo Peña, Branko Kosović, and Jeffrey D. Mirocha

Data sets

Dataset and input files for ``Evaluation of idealized large-eddy simulations performed with the Weather Research and Forecasting model using turbulence measurements from a 250\,m meteorological mast'' A. Peña https://doi.org/10.11583/DTU.13395953

Short summary

We investigate the ability of a community-open weather model to simulate the turbulent atmosphere by comparison with measurements from a 250 m mast at a flat site in Denmark. We found that within three main atmospheric stability regimes, idealized simulations reproduce closely the characteristics of the observations with regards to the mean wind, direction, turbulent fluxes, and turbulence spectra. Our work provides foundation for the use of the weather model in multiscale real-time simulations.