“…In a two-way nesting configuration, both domains are run simultaneously and interact with each other, so that the highest-possible-resolution information produced by the innermost domain affects the solutions over the overlapping area of the coarser domains. The input from the coarse outer domain is introduced through the boundary of the fine inner domain, while feedback to the coarse domain occurs all over the inner domain interior, as its values are replaced by combination of fine inner domain values (Alaka et al, 2022;Mure-Ravaud et al, 2019;Harris and Duran, 2010). We have used two-way nesting in the sensitivity runs, rather than oneway nesting, following recommended practice and previous studies that looked at sensitivities to physics parameterizations in WRF (Wu et al, 2019;Biswas et al, 2014;Li and Pu, 2009;Parker et al, 2017;Spencer et al, 2012;Bopape et al, 2021), studies that simulated Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines (Li et al, 2018;Nakamura et al, 2016), and TC cases in other basins (Parker et al, 2018;Mittal et al, 2019;Reddy et al, 2021), among others.…”