This study evaluates the performance of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model in simulating temperature, wind speed, and precipitation across six Weather Types (WTs) in Portugal. We compare six Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) parameterizations, using observational data from IPMA for validation. Key metrics—Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), Bias, and Standard Deviation of Errors...
Extreme fire events have been increasingly frequent under changing Climate. Improving landscape resilience is key in reducing the ecological and socio-economic impacts of wildfires. This work aims to provide groundwork to incorporate future climate compatible land management scenarios with fire spread modelling tools. In this scope, the coupled fire-atmosphere modelling system WRF-SFIRE was...
Atmospheric aerosols are known to significantly influence global and regional climates through their interactions with radiation and cloud microphysical processes. However, these interactions are difficult to represent in the current atmospheric chemistry models, because of their dependence on aerosol chemical composition, concentration, and size, which are intrinsically linked to aerosol...
