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RRFS: Use the 10-m wind gust diagnostic from RAP/HRRR #874

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jaymes-kenyon opened this issue Feb 14, 2024 · 0 comments · Fixed by #876
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RRFS: Use the 10-m wind gust diagnostic from RAP/HRRR #874

jaymes-kenyon opened this issue Feb 14, 2024 · 0 comments · Fixed by #876
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jaymes-kenyon commented Feb 14, 2024

There is evidence that RRFS 10-m wind gusts are high biased, particularly in stable conditions. At present, the RRFS 10-m gust calculation uses a "unified" diagnostic (for all UFS applications). In turn, this diagnostic uses an internal calculation of PBL height based on a Richardson-number (Ri) approach.

In the proposed update, RRFS would use the RAP / HRRR diagnostic for 10-m wind gusts. This diagnostic considers the vertical profile of virtual potential temperature (theta-v) to determine a PBL height, rather than Ri.

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For reference, the previous update (in Feb 2023) to the 10-m gust calculation can be found at https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/UPP/pull/637/files

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