“…The WRF-ARW has been employed by the Department of Meteorology and Climatology (http://meteo.geo.auth.gr), School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, since 2009. It has been used for operational weather forecasting (http://meteo3.geo.auth.gr/WRF /home.html), educational and research purposes (Bampzelis et al, 2015;Karacostas et al, 2018;Kartsios et al, 2014aKartsios et al, , 2014bKartsios et al, , 2015Kartsios et al, , 2017Katragkou et al, 2015Katragkou et al, , 2017Krestenitis et al, 2017;Pavlidis et al, 2019;Pytharoulis et al, 2015Pytharoulis et al, , 2016Pytharoulis, 2018;Pytharoulis et al, 2018;Stolaki et al, 2012;Tegoulias et al, 2014aTegoulias et al, , 2014bTegoulias et al, , 2017. In this manuscript, the WRF-ARW v3.4.1 has been utilized (Skamarock et al, 2008;Wang et al, 2012) in the performed simulations.…”