WRF Noah Modeling System
The WRF/Noah LSM Coupled system consists of a large number of comprehensive terristrial data sets, their processing onto WRF grid through WRF/SI and Real routines, and the Unified Noah LSM as part of WRF physics package.
The following documents explain how to set up the WRF/SI/Real to acquire all surface, vegetation, soil data necessary to run the WRF/Noah coupled system. These information are probably most useful for users who want to modify these routines to ingest new land data and to modify the default WRF/Noah LSM configurations.
Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) Model
The WRF/Noah LSM Coupled system consists of a large number of comprehensive terristrial data sets, their processing onto WRF grid through WRF/SI and Real routines, and the Unified Noah LSM as part of WRF physics package.
The listed download documents explain how to set up the WRF/SI/Real to acquire all surface, vegetation, soil data necessary to run the WRF/Noah coupled system. These information are probably most useful for users who want to modify these routines to ingest new land data and to modify the default WRF/Noah LSM configurations.
Background Surface Fields
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USGS 30-second global 24-category vegetation (land-use) data
(26.33 MB)
Description
- readme file
- view graphics
- download data
- program
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Modified IGBP MODIS 20-category vegetation (land-use) data (ftp)
Description
- The data come from Boston University, with some modifications by NCEP. NCEP has added new categories based on some other data sets, and has remapped certain categories to other indices.
- Information from NCEP (ftp) regarding their recategorization
- Additional information from Boston University
- Download data from NCEP ftp server
- The data come from Boston University, with some modifications by NCEP. NCEP has added new categories based on some other data sets, and has remapped certain categories to other indices.
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Hybrid STATSGO/FAO (30-second for CONUS /5-minute elsewhere) Soil Texture
(9.2 MB)
Description
- readme file
- Soil categories/textures (zip)
- view graphics [topsoil] [bottom soil]
- download data [topsoil] [bottom soil]
- program
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1-degree annual mean 2-meter air temperature (used in the model as bottom boundary layer conditions for soil models)
(62.53 KB)
Description
- readme file
- view graphics
- download data
- program
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NESDIS/NOAA 0.144 degree monthly 5-year climatology green vegetation fraction (ftp)
Description
- Information: See "Surface Fields" on NCEP CPPA/GAPP web site
- Monthly green vegetation fraction data
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NESDIS/NOAA 0.15 degree monthly 5-year climatology surface albedo (ftp)
Description
- Information: See "Surface Fields" on NCEP CPPA/GAPP web site
- Monthly Albedo data
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Maximum albedo over snow covered area (ftp)
Description
- Information: See "Surface Fields" on NCEP CPPA/GAPP web site
- More information from NCEP ftp server
- Maximum albedo data