Semestral Journal of Centro Argentino de Meteorólogos, which is published  since 1970 and serves on the Core of Argentine Scientific Journals since 2005. Meteorologica publishes original papers in the field of atmospheric sciences and oceanography.

Registration number of intellectual property: 2023-95212445-APN-DNDA#MJ

ISSN 1850-468X

Volume 43 – N° 1 MORE NOTES FROM THIS ISSUE

PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF WRF PHYSICAL PARAMETERIZATIONS FOR A FROST EVENT IN SOUTHERN BRAZIL

Jeferson Machado, Mário Quadro, Camila Cardoso, Carlos Araújo, Gabriel Rodrigues, Natália
Costa, Tuanny Rodrigues y Lourenço de Paula

Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Faculdade de Ciências / Centro de Meteorologia de Bauru (IPMet) – Bauru/Brasil
Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina – Florianópolis/Brasil
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - Florianópolis/Brasil
Epagri/Ciram - Florianópolis/Brasil

Manuscript received on 30th October 2015, in final form on 31st August 2016

ABSTRACT

Based on numerical simulations performed with the WRF model for a frost event in Southern Brazil in July 2013, it was possible to test different physical parameterizations and evaluate these parameterizations in these weather conditions. Although the results do not show considerable statistical differences, the experiment utilizing the Dudhia for shortwave radiation, RRTM for longwave radiation schemes, WSM6 for microphysics and YSU for boundary layer showed better results in the frost event, as it had the lowest values of ME and RMSE for the minimum temperature, relative humidity and wind speed. However, it was not possible to determine which parametrization produce the largest impact from these experiments. A greater number of frost events must be simulated with WRF model in order to obtain a more robust statistical analysis.