DOI: 10.16904/envidat.35
title: Running COSMO-WRF on very-high resolution over complex terrain

description: This is a technical documentation of the procedure to run the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model over complex alpine terrain using Consortium for Small-Scale Modeling (COSMO) reanalysis by the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss) as initial and boundary conditions (COMSO-WRF). The setup is adapted for very high resolution simulations based on COSMO-2 (2.2 km resolution) reanalysis. This document gives an overview over steps to setup COSMO-WRF and adaptations needed to run COSMO-WRF. Additionally, the calculation of precipitation rate at a horizontal plane and remapping COSMO-WRF output on Swiss coordinates are documented.
description: Resource Title: COSMO-WRF documentation v1.0
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 URL: https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/30c985c3-4a14-4cd5-936e-9eb848175812/resource/3a038630-044e-4769-9dd4-9032d7f337eb/download/cosmowrfdocumentation.pdf
 Description: Gerber, Franziska; Sharma, Varun (2018). Running COSMO-WRF on very-high resolution over complex terrain. EnviDat. doi:10.16904/envidat.35

Documentation about the procedure to run COSMO-WRF
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 Description: Scripts to process meteorological data (see Section 2 in COSMOWRFdocumentation.pdf).
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 Description: Scripts to process geographical/static data (see Section 3 in COSMOWRFdocumentation.pdf).
- ascii_to_bin_landuse.f90
- ascii_to_bin_soiltype.f90
- ascii_to_bin_topo_wgs84_ws2sf1.f90
- see_slopes.ncl
- soiltype_writing.py
- toposmooth_wgs84_cosmobound.ncl
- write_geogrid.o
description: Resource Title: WPSSetup
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 Description: Scripts that need to be changed to compile WPS (see COSMOWRFdocumentation.pdf, Section 4)
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 Description: Scripts to run the WRF pre-processing (WPS) for COSMO-WRF simulation (see Section 5 in COSMOWRFdocumentation.pdf)
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 Description: Scripts to run COSMO-WRF simulation (see Section 6 in COSMOWRFdocumentation.pdf)
description: Resource Title: Postprocessing
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 Description: Postprocessing scripts to map WRF output on swiss coordinates (see Section 7 in COSMOWRFdocumentation.pdf)