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Xin Qiu, Ph.D., Novus Environmental Inc.
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Michael Roth, Ph.D., Klimaat
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Hamish Corbett-Hains, Novus Environmental Inc.
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Fuquan Yang, Ph.D., Novus Environmental Inc.
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This paper presents the results of research project RP-1561, “Procedures to Adjust Observed Climatic Data for Regional or Mesoscale Variations”. This project included a WRF modeling campaign designed to cover ten significant climate regions across North America. Model results were compared against mesoscale monitoring data in order to assess the model’s performance for a single year’s hourly weather. Subsequently, a long-term climate model evaluation was performed by running WRF over 4 regions in North America for 8 years. Overall, the model performed well against observed temperature and humidity, reasonably well against observed wind, and relatively poorly against observed solar and precipitation. Guided by this evaluation, a complete mesoscale numerical modeling procedure was developed for coastal, mountain valleys, mountain plateaus, and major city centers, to provide site-specific climate data, i.e., a freely-available software solution for developing localized climate data.
