Characterizing the impacts of turbulence closures on real hurricane forecasts: a comprehensive joint assessment of grid resolution, horizontal turbulence models, and horizontal mixing length

This dataset includes WRF output files for five simulated hurricanes (Florence, Katrina, Maria, Irma, and Gustav) using Smag2D, TKE and no horizontal turbulence models at 32 km grid resolution. For Smag2D and TKE, the horizontal eddy diffusion is varied by a control coefficient (cLh) to investigate the impact of horizontal turbulence models on hurricane forecasts. Please follow the instructions to load the data and the following reference to interpret the cases. Romdhani, O., J. Zhang, and M. Momen, 2022: “Characterizing the impacts of turbulence closures on real hurricane forecasts: a comprehensive joint assessment of grid resolution, horizontal turbulence models, and horizontal mixing length”, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, under minor revision.