ARM - Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds

Jensen, Mike; Bartholomew, Mary Jane; Genio, Anthony Del; Giangrande, Scott; Kollias, Pavlos

doi:10.5439/1073032

Title: ARM - Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds

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Convective processes play a critical role in the Earth's energy balance through the redistribution of heat and moisture in the atmosphere and their link to the hydrological cycle. Accurate representation of convective processes in numerical models is vital towards improving current and future simulations of Earths climate system. Despite improvements in computing power, current operational weather and global climate models are unable to resolve the natural temporal and spatial scales important to convective processes and therefore must turn to parameterization schemes to represent these processes. In turn, parameterization schemes in cloud-resolving models need to be evaluated for their generality and application to a variety of atmospheric conditions. Data from field campaigns with appropriate forcing descriptors have been traditionally used by modelers for evaluating and improving parameterization schemes.

Authors:: Jensen, Mike; Bartholomew, Mary Jane; Genio, Anthony Del; Giangrande, Scott; Kollias, Pavlos

Publication Date:: 2012-01-19

DOE Contract Number:: DE-AC05-00OR22725

Research Org.:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Archive

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Collaborations:: PNL, BNL,ANL,ORNL

Subject:: 54 Environmental Sciences

Keywords:: ARM; MC3E

OSTI Identifier:: 1073032

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.5439/1073032

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                    Jensen, Mike, Bartholomew, Mary Jane, Genio, Anthony Del, Giangrande, Scott, and Kollias, Pavlos. ARM - Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds.  United States: N. p., 2012. 
        Web.  doi:10.5439/1073032.

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                    Jensen, Mike, Bartholomew, Mary Jane, Genio, Anthony Del, Giangrande, Scott, & Kollias, Pavlos. ARM - Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds.  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.5439/1073032

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                    Jensen, Mike, Bartholomew, Mary Jane, Genio, Anthony Del, Giangrande, Scott, and Kollias, Pavlos. 2012.  
"ARM - Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.5439/1073032.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1073032. Pub date:Thu Jan 19 00:00:00 EST 2012

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  title        = {ARM - Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds},

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  abstractNote = {Convective processes play a critical role in the Earth's energy balance through the redistribution of heat and moisture in the atmosphere and their link to the hydrological cycle. Accurate representation of convective processes in numerical models is vital towards improving current and future simulations of Earths climate system. Despite improvements in computing power, current operational weather and global climate models are unable to resolve the natural temporal and spatial scales important to convective processes and therefore must turn to parameterization schemes to represent these processes. In turn, parameterization schemes in cloud-resolving models need to be evaluated for their generality and application to a variety of atmospheric conditions. Data from field campaigns with appropriate forcing descriptors have been traditionally used by modelers for evaluating and improving parameterization schemes.},

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