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Implementation and evaluation of WRF simulation over a city with complex terrain using Alos-Palsar 0.4 s topography

Marco Andrés Guevara Luna
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Alejandro Casallas
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Luis Carlos Belalcázar Cerón
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Alain Clappier
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Air quality modeling requires an accurate representation of meteorology, and in cities with complex topography, the performance of meteorological modeling can be improved by using an alternative global digital elevation model (GDEM) such as Alos-Palsar 0.4 s instead of the default elevation data. Bogotá is a city with complex topography geographically located over the Andes Mountains at 2600 m.a.s.l. A reliable meteorological simulation model is critical for performing a suitable air quality modeling in any case of study. Previous researches have been developed using the standard Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) topography (GTOPO 30 s). These studies have been developed with different configurations for the representation of meteorology. The aim of this study is to evaluate Alos-Palsar 0.4 s topography with WRF, and two domain configurations with horizontal spatial resolutions up to 1000 m, to establish a reliable and accurate way to simulate the meteorology in the city of Bogotá. The evaluation quantitative parameters: IOA, r (Pearson), RMSE, MGE, and MB were calculated for the quantitative evaluation of temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, wind direction, and solar radiation. An additional evaluation using Taylor diagrams was performed. Spatial differences were identified in the same locations as well the differences between the elevation from Alos-Palsar 0.4 s and GTOPO30. The results and evaluation suggest that simulations based on Alos-Palsar 0.4 s topography lead to a significant improvement in the meteorology representation by WRF in a region with complex topography such as Bogotá, Colombia.
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hal-03008770 , version 1 (16-11-2020)

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Marco Andrés Guevara Luna, Alejandro Casallas, Luis Carlos Belalcázar Cerón, Alain Clappier. Implementation and evaluation of WRF simulation over a city with complex terrain using Alos-Palsar 0.4 s topography. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020, 27 (30), pp.37818-37838. ⟨10.1007/s11356-020-09824-8⟩. ⟨hal-03008770⟩

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