Albuquerque, NM

Weather Forecast Office

WRF Information

UPDATE 1/16/2020: The NWS Albuquerque 5km and 1km WRF-ARW modeling domains will no longer be supported after March 2, 2020. There are various other high resolution modeling resources available, including but no limited to; the Storm Prediction Center 3km WRF-ARW, WRF-NMM, and HREF-2, the Texas Tech University 3km WRF, the Earth Systems Laboratory 3km HRRR, and various high resolution NAM/WRF nests from the Environmental Modeling Center. We would like to send special thanks to Robert A. Rozumalski, PhD, for his invaluable support of our local modeling operations over the past 11 years.

Basic Description
5.0km WRF-ARW: Run every 12 hours out to 48 hours using NAM initial conditions and boundary conditions. The default domain is centered over New Mexico.

1.0km WRF-ARW: Run every 6 hours out to 24 hours using NAM initial conditions and boundary conditions. The default domain is centered over the Albuquerque and Santa Fe metro areas. The domain is moved to support decision support activities.

Domain Topograghy

Model Availability

00Z 5.0km: 2100 MST / 2200 MDT	00Z 1.0km: 2200 MST / 2300 MDT 06Z 1.0km: 0300 MST / 0400 MDT
12Z 5.0km: 0900 MST / 1000 MDT	12Z 1.0km: 1000 MST / 1100 MDT 18Z 1.0km: 1500 MST / 1600 MDT

Computational Domain

WRF Core:

Advanced Research WRF (ARW)

Number of Domains:

1

Grid Dimensions:

150 x 160 / 100 x 100

Grid Spacing:

5.0km / 1.0km

Map Projection:

Lambert-Conformal

Center Lat./Lon.:

5.0km: 34.5, -106.1, 1.0km: Variable for DSS

Time Step:

5.0km: 3 hours, 1.0km: 1 hour

Vertical Levels:

45

Pressure at Model’s Top:

50 hPa

5km Dynamics Configuration

Model Dynamics:

Non-Hydrostatic

Time Integration:

Runge-Kutta, 3rd Order

Turbulence and Mixing:

Evaluates Mixing Terms in Coordinate Space

Eddy Coefficient:

Horizontal Smagorinsky, 1st Order

Upper level Damping:

On , W-Rayleigh relaxation layer

Vertical Velocity Damping:

On

5km Physics Configuration

Cumulus Scheme:

Off

Cumulus Time Step:

0

Microphysics Scheme:

New Thompson Graupel

Boundary Layer Scheme:

Yonsei

Boundary Layer Time Step:

0 min, every timestep

Land-Surface Scheme:

Noah Land Surface Model

Number of Soil Layers:

4

Source of Landuse and Soil Data:

Standard Initialization (SI)

Surface Layer Scheme:

Monin-Obukhov (Janjic Eta) Scheme

Longwave Radiation:

Rapid Radiative Transfer Model MCICA (RRTMG)

Short Wave Radiation:

Dudhia

Radiation Time Step:

Auto Minutes