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and a thermodynamic equation. A Kain-Fritsch cumulus parameterization
scheme is used to simulate convective rainfall. Other parameterizations
are standard for a simulation of this type. Surface fluxes of heat and
moisture are represented through the Land Ecosystem Feedback land
surface model.
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The model domain has horizontal dimensions of 82
82 grid
points with a grid spacing of 60 km, encompassing the Thailand and some
part of Indian Ocean. The model uses a vertically stretched grid with
a maximum vertical grid spacing of 1000 m. The minimum vertical grid
spacing is 100 m with a vertical stretch ratio of 1.2. There are 30 grid points
in the vertical one. The polar stereo-projection is used, and the center of
the domain is located at 13.5N, 100E (Fig. 1). The meteorological initial
and boundary conditions were interpolated from the National Centers for
Environmental Prediction (NCEP) daily reanalysis (available online at
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/Datasets/ncep.reanalysis/pressure/).
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Fig. 1. Domain and topography in the model.
