1st LIAISE intercomparison exercise (mesoscale models, 16-18 July 2016)
last update: 2nd June 2022


NOW: working on the MODEL RESULTS (sensitivities)


Description of the case: updated December 2019
Table of model participants, model options and sensitivity tests: updated March 2020

Sensitivity tests: data to be submitted, description of the testsNEW!


0) Observations
* satellite Land-Surface Temperature fields: MSG, MODIS, temperature difference
* LAI: MODIS (4-day average, 15-18 July 2016)
* AWS: SMC network


1) Surface parameters (only inner domain)
* MesoNH, Unified Model, WRF, MOLOCH

**sensitivity tests**
* MesoNH-AROME, MesoNH-surface-features, MesoNH-FLAKE, MesoNH-MEB, MesoNH-CH78-FLAKE-MEB-ORORAD
* WRF-GFS, WRF-LCL
* MOLOCH-GFS, MOLOCH-IFS_SOIL, MOLOCH-GFS_SOIL
* UnifiedModel-UM_CJ209

2) Cross-sections (only inner domain)
* horizontal cross-sections: MesoNH, Unified Model, WRF, MOLOCH
* vertical cross-sections: MesoNH, Unified Model, WRF, MOLOCH

**sensitivity tests**
* horizontal cross-sections: MesoNH-AROME, MesoNH-surface_features, MesoNH-FLAKE, MesoNH-MEB, MesoNH-CH78-FLAKE-MEB-ORORAD
* horizontal cross-sections: WRF-GFS, WRF-CLC
* horizontal cross-sections: MOLOCH-GFS,MOLOCH-IFS-SOIL, MOLOCH-GFS-SOIL
* horizontal cross-sections: UnifiedModel-UM_CJ209

3) Temporal evolutions (only inner domain)
* vertical profiles: MesoNH, Unified Model, WRF, MOLOCH

**sensitivity tests**
* MesoNH-AROME, MesoNH-surface-features, MesoNH-FLAKE, MesoNH-MEB, MesoNH-CH78-FLAKE-MEB-ORORAD
* WRF-GFS, WRF-CLC
* MOLOCH-GFS, MOLOCH-IFS-SOIL, MOLOCH-GFS-SOIL
* UnifiedModel-UM_CJ209

* time series: ALL (default), MesoNH (sensitivity tests), WRF (sensitivity tests), MOLOCH (sensitivity tests), UM (sensitivity tests)


4) Extra diagnostics for model validation and intercomparison of models (only default runs, now working of the sensitivity tests)
** correlations, BIAS, RMSE, ... (model vs. observations) for the AWS sites
* default runs
* UPDATED! default runs corrected!
* MesoNH sensitivity tests
* WRF sensitivity tests
* MOLOCH sensitivity tests
* UM sensitivity tests
**

* thermal difference Drip/Flood/Rainfed/Mountain (AWS, satellite, model)
* differences in the SEB for Drip/Flood/Rainfed/Mountain regions
* differences in the atmospheric vertical profiles of the DRY, WET and IRTA sites
* PDFs to compare wind, temperature, humidity, ... patterns (from horizontal cross-sections)
* PDFs to compare SEB and LST patterns (from horizontal cross-sections)
* comparing surface features among the models (LAI, vegetation fraction, Albedo)

5) Summaries and presentations
* summary of the results (meeting 20th April 2021)
* presentation Metmed (meeting 25-27 May 2021)
* presentation GLASS_GHP (4-5 November 2021)
* extended abstract for the Jornades Fontsere (16 November 2021)
* talk Jornades Fontsere (16 November 2021)
* WG2 LIAISE meeting (31st May 2022)