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Configuration files for WRF in EURO-CORDEX-CMIP6
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Condensed water path #12

Open jesusff opened 10 months ago

jesusff commented 10 months ago

Related to #8

The condensed water path needs to be fixed (currently set to QSNOW): https://github.com/CORDEX-WRF-community/euro-cordex-cmip6/blob/f3ba328c7a554bb78ee66b6c15ea7b74925b82ce/CORDEX-CMIP6_atm_variable_list_WRF.csv#L51

However, it is not clear what is the content of this variable. According to the CF conventions, its standard name refers to:

atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_condensed_water The phrase "condensed_water" means liquid and ice. "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used.

In CORDEX-WRF, Fita et al. (2019) define clwvi as QCLOUD+QRAIN

In pCMORizer, it is computed as QCLOUD + QICE + QRAIN + QSNOW

@LluisFB, @kgoergen, was the computation of this variable fixed/updated after Fita et al (2019)?