Evaluating and Improving Cloud Processes in the Multi-Scale Modeling Framework
- Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
The research performed under this grant was intended to improve the embedded cloud model in the Multi-scale Modeling Framework (MMF) for convective clouds by using a 2-moment microphysics scheme rather than the single moment scheme used in all the MMF runs to date. The technical report and associated documents describe the results of testing the cloud resolving model with fixed boundary conditions and evaluation of model results with data. The overarching conclusion is that such model evaluations are problematic because errors in the forcing fields control the results so strongly that variations in parameterization values cannot be usefully constrained
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0001635
- OSTI ID:
- 1171707
- Report Number(s):
- SC0001635
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
Improving Stratocumulus Cloud Amounts in a 200‐m Resolution Multi‐Scale Modeling Framework Through Tuning of Its Interior Physics
A multiscale modeling framework model (superparameterized CAM5) with a higher‐order turbulence closure: Model description and low‐cloud simulations
Final Technical Report for "High-resolution global modeling of the effects of subgrid-scale clouds and turbulence on precipitating cloud systems"
Journal Article
·
Wed Mar 06 00:00:00 EST 2024
· Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
·
OSTI ID:1171707
+4 more
A multiscale modeling framework model (superparameterized CAM5) with a higher‐order turbulence closure: Model description and low‐cloud simulations
Journal Article
·
Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 EDT 2015
· Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
·
OSTI ID:1171707
+6 more
Final Technical Report for "High-resolution global modeling of the effects of subgrid-scale clouds and turbulence on precipitating cloud systems"
Technical Report
·
Fri Nov 25 00:00:00 EST 2016
·
OSTI ID:1171707