INIFOR - Initialization and Forcing of PALM-4U (v1.1.5) INIFOR provides the meteorological fields required to initialize and drive the urban-climate model PALM-4U. The required meteorological fields are interpolated from output data of the meso-scale model COSMO. COMPILATION 1. Customize ./Makefile and ./tests/Makefile (netCDF library location, compiler and parameters, use Makefile.ifort as a template if you want to use the Intel Fortran compiler) 2. $ make USAGE 1. Customize ./namelist (number or grid points and spacings, end_time) 2. $ ./bin/inifor -path -date -clat -clon All COMMAND-LINE PARAMETERS -date : Start date of the simulation in the form YYYMMDD. Currently, INIFOR assumes that the simulation starts at O UTC on that day. Default: 20130721 -hhl : Location of the netCDF file containing the vertical COSMO-DE grid (hhh = height of half layers, i.e. vertical cell faces). Default: /hhl.nc -mode profile: Produce average profiles instead of three-dimensional fields as initial conditions. -n : Location of the PALM-4U namelist file. INIFOR expects the file to contain two namelists, inipar and d3par, from which it will read grid parameters and the simulation time. Default: ./namelist -o : Name of the INIFOR output file. Default: ./palm-4u-input.nc -p0 : Surface pressure at z=0 in the PALM-4U domain [Pa]. Default: 1e5 Pa = 1000 hPa -path : Scenario path, i.e. the path of the meteorological input data. Default: ./ -soil : Location of the netCDF file containing the COSMO-DE soil type map. Default: /soil.nc -static : Location of the netCDF file containing the static driver file for the case to be simulated with PALM-4U. Optional parameter. Default: None -ug : Specifies the geostrophic wind in x direction [m/s]. Default: 0 -vg : Specifies the geostrophic wind in y direction [m/s]. Default: 0 -z0 : Specifies the elevation of the the PALM-4U domain above sea level [m]. Default: 35 m