Research Article

A Case Study of Offshore Advection of Boundary Layer Rolls over a Stably Stratified Sea Surface

Table 1

WRF simulation settings used for this study.

Version 3.5

Resolution Horizontally: 4 domains with 27, 9, 3, 1 km resolution, respectively
48 vertical levels with smallest grid spacing near ground

InputERA-Interim reanalysis every 6th hour Dee et al. [30]
No nudging

Physics MYNN2 (Mellor-Yamada Nakanishi Niino level 2.5) boundary layer schemeNakanishi and Niino [31]
MYNN surface layer scheme
Noah land surface schemeTewari et al. [32]
RRTM (Rapid Radiative Transfer Model) longwave radiation schemeMlawer et al. [33]
Dudhia shortwave radiation schemeDudhia [34]
Grell 3D cumulus parametrization scheme (applied on two outer domains)[35]
Thompson et al. microphysics schemeThompson et al. [36]