Evaluating mesoscale model predictions of diurnal speedup events in the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area of California

This dataset contains input files for the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model related to the manuscript "Evaluating mesoscale model predictions of diurnal speedup events in the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area of California," to be submitted to the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology by Arthur, et al. Included are: namelist.wps: used by the WRF preprocessing system (WPS) to configure the model domain and initial/boundary conditions Vtable.HRRR: used by WPS to process data from the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) model for WRF initial/boundary conditions namelist.input.mynn: used to run the MYNN PBL simulation namelist.input.3dpbl: used to run the 3D PBL simulation windturbines.txt: used to define the location and type of wind turbines included in the simulations wind-turbine-*.tbl: used to define the parameters of each turbine type (see Table 1 in Arthur et al.) 1: NREL 1.7MW, H=80m, D=103m 2: NREL 2.3MW, H=80m, D=107m 3: NREL 2.3MW, H=80m, D=116m 4: Vestas V47 0.66MW, H=60m, D=47m 5: Bonus B54 1.0MW, H=55m, D=54m This work was prepared by LLNL under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344.