Robustness and Uncertainties of Global Cloud-Resolving Models: Evaluations and Improvements of Clouds with a Seamless Approach
Abstract
Global cloud-resolving models (GCRMs), which are defined as global models with horizontal resolution less than about 5km without using a convective parameterization scheme (Satoh et al. 2019, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-019-00131-0), produces a fine scale structure of upper clouds that is very similar to that of a geostationary satellite image, as demonstrated by the DYAMOND project (Stevens et al. 2020, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-019-0304-z). We show that they have very different vertical cloud profiles, which are one of the most uncertain aspects of GCRMs.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020AGUFMGC105..05M
- Keywords:
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- 3305 Climate change and variability;
- ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES;
- 3333 Model calibration;
- ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES;
- 1622 Earth system modeling;
- GLOBAL CHANGE;
- 1626 Global climate models;
- GLOBAL CHANGE