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Snow distribution over the Namco lake area of the Tibetan Plateau
1Cold and Arid Region Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
2Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
3Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
Abstract. The mesoscale snow distribution over the Namco lake area of the Tibetan Plateau on October 2005 has been investigated in this paper. The base and revised experiments were conducted using the Weather Research Model (WRF) with three nested grids that included a 1 km finest grid centered on the Namco station. Our simulation ran from 6 October through to 10 October 2005, which was concurrent with long term meteorological observations. Evaluation against boundary layer meteorological tower measurements and flux observations showed that the model captured the observed 2 m temperature and 10 m winds reasonably well in the revised experiment. The results suggest that output snow depth maximum amounts from two simulated experiments were centered downwind of the Namco lakeshore. Modified surface state variable, for example, surface skin temperature on the lake help to increase simulated credibility.
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Citation: Li, M., Ma, Y., Hu, Z., Ishikawa, H., and Oku, Y.: Snow distribution over the Namco lake area of the Tibetan Plateau, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 13, 2023-2030, doi:10.5194/hess-13-2023-2009, 2009. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager XML
