A flexible importance sampling method for integrating subgrid processes
Abstract
Numerical models of weather and climate need to compute grid-box-averaged rates of physical processes such as microphysics. These averages are computed by integrating subgrid variability over a grid box. For this reason, an important aspect of atmospheric modeling is spatial integration over subgrid scales. The needed integrals can be estimated by Monte Carlo integration. Monte Carlo integration is simple and general but requires many evaluations of the physical process rate. To reduce the number of function evaluations, this paper describes a new, flexible method of importance sampling. It divides the domain of integration into eight categories, such as the portion that contains both precipitation and cloud, or the portion that contains precipitation but no cloud. It then allows the modeler to prescribe the density of sample points within each of the eight categories. The new method is incorporated into the Subgrid Importance Latin Hypercube Sampler (SILHS). Here, the resulting method is tested on drizzling cumulus and stratocumulus cases. In the cumulus case, the sampling error can be considerably reduced by drawing more sample points from the region of rain evaporation.
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- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1236407
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1268218
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0008323
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Geoscientific Model Development (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Geoscientific Model Development (Online) Journal Volume: 9 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1991-9603
- Publisher:
- Copernicus Publications, EGU
- Country of Publication:
- Germany
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; independent-column approximation; stratiform cloud microphysics; probability density-functions; community atmosphere model; boundary-layer clouds; large-eddy simulation; large-scale models; part i; marine stratocumulus; parameterization
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Raut, E. K., and Larson, V. E. A flexible importance sampling method for integrating subgrid processes. Germany: N. p., 2016.
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Raut, E. K., & Larson, V. E. A flexible importance sampling method for integrating subgrid processes. Germany. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-413-2016
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"A flexible importance sampling method for integrating subgrid processes". Germany. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-413-2016.
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title = {A flexible importance sampling method for integrating subgrid processes},
author = {Raut, E. K. and Larson, V. E.},
abstractNote = {Numerical models of weather and climate need to compute grid-box-averaged rates of physical processes such as microphysics. These averages are computed by integrating subgrid variability over a grid box. For this reason, an important aspect of atmospheric modeling is spatial integration over subgrid scales. The needed integrals can be estimated by Monte Carlo integration. Monte Carlo integration is simple and general but requires many evaluations of the physical process rate. To reduce the number of function evaluations, this paper describes a new, flexible method of importance sampling. It divides the domain of integration into eight categories, such as the portion that contains both precipitation and cloud, or the portion that contains precipitation but no cloud. It then allows the modeler to prescribe the density of sample points within each of the eight categories. The new method is incorporated into the Subgrid Importance Latin Hypercube Sampler (SILHS). Here, the resulting method is tested on drizzling cumulus and stratocumulus cases. In the cumulus case, the sampling error can be considerably reduced by drawing more sample points from the region of rain evaporation.},
doi = {10.5194/gmd-9-413-2016},
journal = {Geoscientific Model Development (Online)},
number = 1,
volume = 9,
place = {Germany},
year = {Fri Jan 29 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Fri Jan 29 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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