Mesoscale Spectral Model Application in Hawaii: Experiment Setup
The experimental procedure is designed as follows:
- Download the AVN outputs for 00Z (1400 HST) to provide
the boundary
and initial conditions for the 10-km RSM run. This downloading
process takes about 4.5 hours to complete on the ES40 system.
- Run the 10-km RSM for the state of Hawaii initialized at 00Z
by the AVN outputs. The initial surface conditions are
provided by the 24-hour RSM forecast from the previous run.
The grid points for this run are 97*76
with 28 model layers. For a 48-hour simulation, this run takes
about two hours of CPU time to complete on the ES40 system
with four EV67 processors.
The outputs from this run are available on the website after
2300 HST the same day.
- Run the 1.5-km MSM for the Oahu domain initialized at 00Z
by the 10-km RSM outputs. The initial surface conditions are
provided by the 24-hour MSM forecast from the previous run.
The grid points for this run are
73*62 with 28 model layers. For a 48-hour simulation, this
run takes about 9.5 hours to complete on the ES40 system
with four EV67 processors.
The outputs from this run are available on the website after
0900 HST the next day.