SKIRON Dust operational setup
Configuration
- Horizontal Grid : Arakawa E-grid
- Horizontal Resolution : 0.24 x 0.24 degrees
- Vertical Grid : step-mountain Eta coordinate
- No of vertical levels : 38 levels stretching from surface to 20 Km
Input Data
- Atmospheric data : NCEP/GFS initial and lateral boundary conditions (0.5 x 0.5 degrees, 26 pressure levels)
- Terrain and sea-surface data : Topography 30x30 sec, Vegetation 30x30 sec, Soil Texture 30x30 sec, daily NCEP SSTs 0.5x0.5 degrees, Clay content dataset 2x2 min.
- Initialization : 12 UTC daily
- Forecast Horizon : 5 days
Output Fields (Operational)
- Mean Sea Level Pressure
- Temperature fields at 2m, 850hPa, 700hPa, 500hPa, 200hPa
- Wind speed and direction at 10m, 850hPa, 700hPa, 500hPa, 200hPa
- Dust concentration near the ground
- Dust load
- Dry and wet deposition of aerosols
- Aerosol Optical Depth at 532 nm
- Convective and accumulated Precipitation
- Cloud Cover
- Snowfall
- Meteograms for several locations
- Dustgrams for several locations
Output Fields (For research purposes)
- Temperature fields from surface to top of the atmosphere every 50 hPa
- Wind speed and direction from surface to top of the atmosphere every 50 hPa
- PM2.5
- PM10
- Sensible Heat Flux
- Latent Heat Flux
- Relative and specific Humidity
- Heating and cooling rate profiles
- Incoming and outgoing shortwave and longwave radiation fields
- Albedo
- Surface Roughness Length
- Surface Friction Velocity
- Threshold Friction Velocity for dust production
- Dust sources
- Soil Temperature
- Soil Moisture