Table 1.

MPAS-A v6.0 Model Configuration

Model Mesh/Process	Configuration
Mesh Resolutions with Seamless Refinements	92–25 km and 46–12 km
Time Steps	100 s (92–25 km); 40 s (46–12 km)
Land Surface Model	Dominant and L13-tiled Noah (N=15 tiles per cell)
LCC Data	Combined 40-Category NLCD (conterminous U.S.) and IGBP-MODIS (Global)
Surface Layer	Monin-Obukhov (MO)
Planetary Boundary Layer	Yonsei University (YSU)
Grid Microphysics/Subgrid Convection	WRF Single Moment 6-class (WSM6)/Kain-Fritsch (KF)
Radiation	Rapid Radiative Transfer Model for GCMs (RRTMG)