ABSTRACT: A heat wave is a weather phenomenon that is distinguished by marked heating of the air, or with the invasion of very hot air, over a large area. In the present study, the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model was tested through 30 different combinations of radiation parameterization schemes to simulate the regional weather over the Bangladesh. The main objective was to investigate the response to the radiation parameters schemes for dynamic down-scaling of weather variables. The temperature from the 30 different WRF setups were compared with the BMD observed data and were found sensitive to the radiation physics. The 30 combination of radiation physics along with the fixed WRF Single-moment 3-class microphysics, Kain-Fritiches cumulus physics, Noah Land Surface......
Keywords: Heat wave, radiation scheme and regional modeling
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