Comparison of Performance on Watershed-Scale Precipitationbetween WRF and MM5 |
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학술지명 ASCE
저자 장수형,Ishida,Kavvas
발표일 2015-05-19
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A regional atmospheric model is an important tool for watershed modeling because it can provide all the atmospheric input information required by a watershed model. Among regional atmospheric models, the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) is most frequently used now a days. The WRF was originally developed as a new version of Fifth-Generation Penn State/NCAR Mesoscale Model (MM5). Therefore, the WRF is supposed to be superior to the MM5. On the other hand, atmospheric processes are non-linear and are very complicated phenomena. Especially, precipitation is quite difficult to quantify by a model. In this context, to compare the WRF and the MM5, dynamic downscaling was conducted over Northern California by both of the models based on NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis I, and the performances of these models are investigated in this study by comparing the simulated watershed-scale precipitation over three watersheds in Northern California with the daily data of Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model (PRISM). Although the simulated results by both of the models are fundamentally in good agreement with PRISM, the WRF results showed higher Nash-Sutcliffe coefficients (NS) in comparisons with PRISM over two of the watersheds whereas the MM5. |