Read Stull’s book chapter on General Circulation

 

https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/books/Practical_Meteorology/prmet102/Ch11-global-v102.pdf

 

This is a long chapter (~60 pages) but it is worth reading it. Sections 1 - 7 are essential for your understanding, before you have some idea on designing the mesh and the configuration for running a simulation of synoptic circulation (global-scale circulation).

 

Read and follow the instructions in CPAS User Guide:

https://cpas.earth/userguide/meshcustomization_outline

 

Alternatively, watch the video in the CPAS blog:

https://cpas.earth/blog/201912/diy-weather-prediction-okinawa-part-1

 

Make two customized meshes for the purposes:


1. Simulation of synoptic scale circulation in the North Hemisphere.
 

2. Provision of 4 km resolution gridded direct model output weather data for your home city. (“Direct model output” is a term used in the weather forecasting community - Post-processing using statistical methods are often used as a downstream step to adjust NWP model’s output for specific station locations - hence the output data of a NWP model is often called direct model output. They are useful for applications like driving an air quality model.)

 

Trial and error, or make a sensible estimation of resolution and region size, with the resources and privilege available to use.

 

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