you can calculate vertical integrated moisture using q, u and v from 1000 hPa. I suggest to fix upper level upto 300hPa as most of the q is upto that level.
you can do that using model RegCM3 output.
Sincerely
Dimri
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Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi, India
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> From: abubakr salih <abubakr_salih@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [RegCNET] water budget
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> Hi all,
> I'm trying to calculate the average water contents of atmospheric column from the model output. I used water budget equation which says the change in water contents can be due to advection? terms in the left hand side and that must equal to E-P in the right hand side. The rate of change with time for long period is small and negligible. I integrated the equation vertically from surface pressure up 100? mb. When I did the calculation I got unbalance result, the difference is in order of multiple of 10 even multiple of 100. Any one knows why the water budget not balanced in the model?
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> From: Bamba Sylla <syllabamba@yahoo.fr>
> Subject: [RegCNET] Re : water budget
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> Hi Salih
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> I don't think it can be balanced using the model output. Even using
> 3-hourly or 6-hourly datasets, it cannot be balanced. Your best chance
> is to vertically integrate at each model time step before outputting.
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> Hi all,
> I'm trying to calculate the average water contents of atmospheric column from the model output. I used water budget equation which says the change in water contents can be due to advection? terms in the left hand side and that must equal to E-P in the right hand side. The rate of change with time for long period is small and negligible. I integrated the equation vertically from surface pressure up 100? mb. When I did the calculation I got unbalance result, the difference is in order of multiple of 10 even multiple of 100. Any one knows why the water budget not balanced in the model?
>
> regards
> /A? ?
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