Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52884#.VKtPhcnQrzE Author(s) George Zittis 1* , Panos Hadjinicolaou 1 , Jos Lelieveld 1,2 Affiliation(s) 1 Energy Environment and Water Research Center, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus . 2 Department of Atmospheric Chemistry, Max Plank Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany . ABSTRACT We investigated the performance of 12 different physics configurations of the climate version of the Weather, Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model over the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) domain. Possible combinations among two Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL), three Cumulus (CUM) and two Microphysics (MIC) schemes were tested. The 2...
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