Numerical Simulations of Airborne Glaciogenic Cloud Seeding Using the WRF Model with the Modified Morrison Scheme over the Pyeongchang Region in the Winter of 2016

Table 1

Summary of the seeding information, weather conditions, and model configurations.

	EXP1	EXP2	EXP3
Date	29 Jan 2016	6 Feb 2016	20 Feb 2016
Seeding information
Period (LST)	1252–1336	1521–1555	1355–1432
AgI (g hr^−1)	1841	2118	1946
Seeding height; (km, above the mean sea level)	2.2	2.1	2.5
Seeding path; (start/end point)	37°43′N, 128°55′E/; 37°49′N, 128°49′E	37°55′N, 128°36′E/; 37°51′N, 128°27′E	37°46′N, 128°45′E/37°46′N, 128°35′E; 37°48′N, 128°44′E/37°44′N, 128°34′E; 37°48′N, 128°43′E/37°42′N, 128°33′E
Weather information (CPOS site from AWS and radiometer)
Time	0400	0630	0500
Wind speed (m s^−1)	0.4	0	1.96
Temperature (°C)
Humidity (%)	97.6	95.0	61.6
LWP (g m^−2)	577	120.3	15.6
Model configurations
Domain area; (upper left/lower right)	38°11′N, 127°58′E/; 37°11′N, 129°23′E	38°22′N, 127°50′E/; 37°24′N, 129°13′E	38°12′N, 127°52′E/; 37°14′N, 129°15′E
Period (UTC)	0000–1800
Model top	50 hPa
Longwave radiation	Rapid radiative transfer model
Shortwave radiation	Goddard shortwave scheme
PBL	YSU scheme
Land surface	“Noah” land surface scheme
Surface layer	MM5 similarity
Microphysics	Morrison scheme with AgI cloud-seeding parameterization
Horizontal grid interval	1 km
Dimension (, , )	121 × 106 × 40
Initial and boundary condition	UM LDAPS analysis data (3 hr, 1.5 km resolution)