The MRAMS Results

The above image shows the locations of the domains that were used in the Rafkin et al. VL2 simulation.

 

At present, the data that we have from the MRAMS group is shown in the following image, although the first day of model output was omitted for spin-up. This simulation uses the EXACT same Ames GCM output that was used for the OSU MMM5 simulations to generate model boundary and initial conditions. The height of the lowest model layer is not known, but we understand that a linear interpolation and a Monin-Obukov similarity interpolation method were both used to interpolate model temperatures, but whether or not these methods were used for winds is unknown.

The following image compares MRAMS output from the third day of the above data (from simulation day time 2.0 to time 3.0) against the VL2 data directly. The green lines/points represent average cycles from the VL2 data for years 1 and 2 during the period of this experiment.