Scheme or parameterization

Selected option

Initialization

GFS 0.25º

Microphysics

SBU-Lin

Longwave radiaion

RRTMG

Shortwave radiation

Dudhia

Cumulus

Kain-Fritsch

Surface layer

MM5 similarity

Planetary boundary layer

YSU (9, 3 and 1 km)

LES (0.333 km)

Vertical levels number

36

Diffusion 6th order option

Knievel

Diffusion 6th order factor

0.36 (d03)

Damping

Rayleigh

Topography

GTOPO30 (9 and 3 km)

ASTER (1 and 0.333 km)

Land uses

GLC (9 and 3 km)

CLC2006 (1 and 0.333 km)

Nudging

Grid nudging (9 km)

Observational nudging (3 and 1 km)