Impacts of cloud superparameterization on projected daily rainfall intensity climate changes in multiple versions of the Community Earth System Model
Abstract
Abstract Changes in the character of rainfall are assessed using a holistic set of statistics based on rainfall frequency and amount distributions in climate change experiments with three conventional and superparameterized versions of the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM and SPCAM). Previous work has shown that high‐order statistics of present‐day rainfall intensity are significantly improved with superparameterization, especially in regions of tropical convection. Globally, the two modeling approaches project a similar future increase in mean rainfall, especially across the Inter‐Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and at high latitudes, but over land, SPCAM predicts a smaller mean change than CAM. Changes in high‐order statistics are similar at high latitudes in the two models but diverge at lower latitudes. In the tropics, SPCAM projects a large intensification of moderate and extreme rain rates in regions of organized convection associated with the Madden Julian Oscillation, ITCZ, monsoons, and tropical waves. In contrast, this signal is missing in all versions of CAM, which are found to be prone to predicting increases in the amount but not intensity of moderate rates. Predictions from SPCAM exhibit a scale‐insensitive behavior with little dependence on horizontal resolution for extreme rates, while lower resolution (∼2°) versions of CAM are not ablemore »
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- Department of Earth System Science University of California Irvine California USA
- Department of Atmospheric Science Colorado State University Fort Collins Colorado USA
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- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF); Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1330398
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1330470; OSTI ID: 1360138
- Grant/Contract Number:
- DE‐SC0012152; DE‐SC0012548; SC0012152
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems Journal Volume: 8 Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 1942-2466
- Publisher:
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY; climate change; extreme precipitation; rainfall intensity; community atmosphere model; superparameterization
Citation Formats
Kooperman, Gabriel J., Pritchard, Michael S., Burt, Melissa A., Branson, Mark D., and Randall, David A. Impacts of cloud superparameterization on projected daily rainfall intensity climate changes in multiple versions of the Community Earth System Model. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1002/2016MS000715.
Kooperman, Gabriel J., Pritchard, Michael S., Burt, Melissa A., Branson, Mark D., & Randall, David A. Impacts of cloud superparameterization on projected daily rainfall intensity climate changes in multiple versions of the Community Earth System Model. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016MS000715
Kooperman, Gabriel J., Pritchard, Michael S., Burt, Melissa A., Branson, Mark D., and Randall, David A. Fri .
"Impacts of cloud superparameterization on projected daily rainfall intensity climate changes in multiple versions of the Community Earth System Model". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016MS000715.
@article{osti_1330398,
title = {Impacts of cloud superparameterization on projected daily rainfall intensity climate changes in multiple versions of the Community Earth System Model},
author = {Kooperman, Gabriel J. and Pritchard, Michael S. and Burt, Melissa A. and Branson, Mark D. and Randall, David A.},
abstractNote = {Abstract Changes in the character of rainfall are assessed using a holistic set of statistics based on rainfall frequency and amount distributions in climate change experiments with three conventional and superparameterized versions of the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM and SPCAM). Previous work has shown that high‐order statistics of present‐day rainfall intensity are significantly improved with superparameterization, especially in regions of tropical convection. Globally, the two modeling approaches project a similar future increase in mean rainfall, especially across the Inter‐Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and at high latitudes, but over land, SPCAM predicts a smaller mean change than CAM. Changes in high‐order statistics are similar at high latitudes in the two models but diverge at lower latitudes. In the tropics, SPCAM projects a large intensification of moderate and extreme rain rates in regions of organized convection associated with the Madden Julian Oscillation, ITCZ, monsoons, and tropical waves. In contrast, this signal is missing in all versions of CAM, which are found to be prone to predicting increases in the amount but not intensity of moderate rates. Predictions from SPCAM exhibit a scale‐insensitive behavior with little dependence on horizontal resolution for extreme rates, while lower resolution (∼2°) versions of CAM are not able to capture the response simulated with higher resolution (∼1°). Moderate rain rates analyzed by the “amount mode” and “amount median” are found to be especially telling as a diagnostic for evaluating climate model performance and tracing future changes in rainfall statistics to tropical wave modes in SPCAM.},
doi = {10.1002/2016MS000715},
journal = {Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems},
number = 4,
volume = 8,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Oct 28 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Fri Oct 28 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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