Using a Small Scale Wireless Sensor Network for Model Validation: Two Case Studies
In this paper, the potential of a network consisting of low cost weather stations for validating microscale model simulations and for forcing surface-atmosphere-transfer-schemes is investigated within two case studies. Transfer schemes often do not account for small scale variabilities of the earth...
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| description | In this paper, the potential of a network consisting of low cost weather stations for validating microscale model simulations and for forcing surface-atmosphere-transfer-schemes is investigated within two case studies. Transfer schemes often do not account for small scale variabilities
of the earth surface, because measurements of the atmospheric conditions do not exist in such a high spatial resolution to force the models. To overcome this issue, in this study a small scale network of meteorological stations is used to derive measurements in high spatial and temporal resolution.
The observations carried out during the measurement campaign are compared to air temperature and specific humidity simulations of the mesoscale atmospheric model FOOT3DK (Flow Over Orographically-Structured Terrain - 3 Dimensional Model (Kölner Version)). This comparison indicates that
FOOT3DK simulates either air temperature or specific humidity satisfactorily for each station at the lowest model level, depending on the dominating land use class within each grid cell. The influence of heterogeneous forcing and vegetation on heat flux modelling is studied using the soil-vegetation-atmosphere
transfer scheme TERRA. The observations of the measurement campaign are used as input for four different runs with homogeneous and heterogeneous forcing and vegetation. Heterogeneous vegetation reduces the bias between the grid cells, heterogeneous forcing reduces the random error for each
grid cell. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-814665de628d492a916fdd1243c31f252024-02-07T15:09:08ZengBorntraegerMeteorologische Zeitschrift0941-29482013-07-0122328329510.1127/0941-2948/2013/042281063Using a Small Scale Wireless Sensor Network for Model Validation: Two Case StudiesKatharina LengfeldStefan ZachariasFelix AmentFelix AmentIn this paper, the potential of a network consisting of low cost weather stations for validating microscale model simulations and for forcing surface-atmosphere-transfer-schemes is investigated within two case studies. Transfer schemes often do not account for small scale variabilities of the earth surface, because measurements of the atmospheric conditions do not exist in such a high spatial resolution to force the models. To overcome this issue, in this study a small scale network of meteorological stations is used to derive measurements in high spatial and temporal resolution. The observations carried out during the measurement campaign are compared to air temperature and specific humidity simulations of the mesoscale atmospheric model FOOT3DK (Flow Over Orographically-Structured Terrain - 3 Dimensional Model (Kölner Version)). This comparison indicates that FOOT3DK simulates either air temperature or specific humidity satisfactorily for each station at the lowest model level, depending on the dominating land use class within each grid cell. The influence of heterogeneous forcing and vegetation on heat flux modelling is studied using the soil-vegetation-atmosphere transfer scheme TERRA. The observations of the measurement campaign are used as input for four different runs with homogeneous and heterogeneous forcing and vegetation. Heterogeneous vegetation reduces the bias between the grid cells, heterogeneous forcing reduces the random error for each grid cell.http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/0941-2948/2013/0422atmospheric measurementsboundary layer meteorologyheat flux simulationmodel validationsmall variabilitywireless sensor network |
| spellingShingle | Katharina Lengfeld Stefan Zacharias Felix Ament Felix Ament Using a Small Scale Wireless Sensor Network for Model Validation: Two Case Studies Meteorologische Zeitschrift atmospheric measurements boundary layer meteorology heat flux simulation model validation small variability wireless sensor network |
| title | Using a Small Scale Wireless Sensor Network for Model Validation: Two Case Studies |
| title_full | Using a Small Scale Wireless Sensor Network for Model Validation: Two Case Studies |
| title_fullStr | Using a Small Scale Wireless Sensor Network for Model Validation: Two Case Studies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Using a Small Scale Wireless Sensor Network for Model Validation: Two Case Studies |
| title_short | Using a Small Scale Wireless Sensor Network for Model Validation: Two Case Studies |
| title_sort | using a small scale wireless sensor network for model validation two case studies |
| topic | atmospheric measurements boundary layer meteorology heat flux simulation model validation small variability wireless sensor network |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/0941-2948/2013/0422 |
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