Configuration GFS Initial/Boundary Conditions 30 km horizontal grid spacing (limited area domain over North America extracted from global 30 km Voronoi Mesh) 50 Vertical Levels Non-hydrostatic Dynamics New Tiedtke Convective Scheme WSM 6-class Microphysics Scheme YSU PBL Scheme Noah Land Surface Model RRTMG Long Wave Radiation Scheme RRTMG Shortwave Radiation Scheme Xu-Randall Cloud Fraction for Radiation YSU Gravity Wave Drag by Orography Details on the MPAS modeling system can be found at https://mpas-dev.github.io/

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