Parameterizing Subgrid Variations of Land Surface Heat Fluxes to the Atmosphere Improves Boreal Summer Land Precipitation Simulation With the NCAR CESM1.2
Abstract
Subgrid horizontal variations of land surface heat fluxes to the atmosphere resulting from subgrid land cover heterogeneity are important in land-atmosphere interaction in global climate models (GCMs). To incorporate it, a parameterization using stochastic sampling based on truncated normal distributions diagnosed from the land model and internal ensemble mean of multiple calls to the planetary boundary layer and deep convection schemes is developed. After its implementation in the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Community Earth System Model version 1.2 (CESM1.2), large changes of simulated land precipitation are found to occur in regions where large subgrid variations of surface heat fluxes exist. The simulated precipitation is improved in boreal summer, especially over eastern China and the coastal areas of the Bay of Bengal. The improved precipitation is mainly a result of improved large-scale moisture convergence and advection by altered vertical diffusion and convection.
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing (China)
- Tsinghua University, Beijing (China); Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China); University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China)
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography La Jolla, CA (United States)
- Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou (China)
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- Research Org.:
- Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); National Key Research and Development Program of China; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1853124
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0019373; 2016YFA0602103; 2017YFA0604000; 41975126
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Geophysical Research Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 48; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 0094-8276
- Publisher:
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 58 GEOSCIENCES
Citation Formats
Sun, Wenqi, Wang, Bin, Wang, Yong, Zhang, Guang J., Han, Yilun, Wang, Xu, and Yang, Mengmiao. Parameterizing Subgrid Variations of Land Surface Heat Fluxes to the Atmosphere Improves Boreal Summer Land Precipitation Simulation With the NCAR CESM1.2. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1029/2020gl090715.
Sun, Wenqi, Wang, Bin, Wang, Yong, Zhang, Guang J., Han, Yilun, Wang, Xu, & Yang, Mengmiao. Parameterizing Subgrid Variations of Land Surface Heat Fluxes to the Atmosphere Improves Boreal Summer Land Precipitation Simulation With the NCAR CESM1.2. United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl090715
Sun, Wenqi, Wang, Bin, Wang, Yong, Zhang, Guang J., Han, Yilun, Wang, Xu, and Yang, Mengmiao. Mon .
"Parameterizing Subgrid Variations of Land Surface Heat Fluxes to the Atmosphere Improves Boreal Summer Land Precipitation Simulation With the NCAR CESM1.2". United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl090715. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1853124.
@article{osti_1853124,
title = {Parameterizing Subgrid Variations of Land Surface Heat Fluxes to the Atmosphere Improves Boreal Summer Land Precipitation Simulation With the NCAR CESM1.2},
author = {Sun, Wenqi and Wang, Bin and Wang, Yong and Zhang, Guang J. and Han, Yilun and Wang, Xu and Yang, Mengmiao},
abstractNote = {Subgrid horizontal variations of land surface heat fluxes to the atmosphere resulting from subgrid land cover heterogeneity are important in land-atmosphere interaction in global climate models (GCMs). To incorporate it, a parameterization using stochastic sampling based on truncated normal distributions diagnosed from the land model and internal ensemble mean of multiple calls to the planetary boundary layer and deep convection schemes is developed. After its implementation in the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Community Earth System Model version 1.2 (CESM1.2), large changes of simulated land precipitation are found to occur in regions where large subgrid variations of surface heat fluxes exist. The simulated precipitation is improved in boreal summer, especially over eastern China and the coastal areas of the Bay of Bengal. The improved precipitation is mainly a result of improved large-scale moisture convergence and advection by altered vertical diffusion and convection.},
doi = {10.1029/2020gl090715},
journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
number = 1,
volume = 48,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Dec 14 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Mon Dec 14 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}
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