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Title: Final Technical Report for "Reducing tropical precipitation biases in CESM"

Abstract

In state-of-the-art climate models, each cloud type is treated using its own separate cloud parameterization and its own separate microphysics parameterization. This use of separate schemes for separate cloud regimes is undesirable because it is theoretically unfounded, it hampers interpretation of results, and it leads to the temptation to overtune parameters. In this grant, we have created a climate model that contains a unified cloud parameterization (“CLUBB”) and a unified microphysics parameterization (“MG2”). In this model, all cloud types --- including marine stratocumulus, shallow cumulus, and deep cumulus --- are represented with a single equation set. This model improves the representation of convection in the Tropics. The model has been compared with ARM observations. The chief benefit of the project is to provide a climate model that is based on a more theoretically rigorous formulation.

Authors:
 [1]
  1. Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI Identifier:
1326797
Report Number(s):
DOE-UWM-8668
DOE Contract Number:  
SC0008668
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; climate modeling; cloud parameterization

Citation Formats

Larson, Vincent. Final Technical Report for "Reducing tropical precipitation biases in CESM". United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.2172/1326797.
Larson, Vincent. Final Technical Report for "Reducing tropical precipitation biases in CESM". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1326797
Larson, Vincent. 2016. "Final Technical Report for "Reducing tropical precipitation biases in CESM"". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1326797. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1326797.
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title = {Final Technical Report for "Reducing tropical precipitation biases in CESM"},
author = {Larson, Vincent},
abstractNote = {In state-of-the-art climate models, each cloud type is treated using its own separate cloud parameterization and its own separate microphysics parameterization. This use of separate schemes for separate cloud regimes is undesirable because it is theoretically unfounded, it hampers interpretation of results, and it leads to the temptation to overtune parameters. In this grant, we have created a climate model that contains a unified cloud parameterization (“CLUBB”) and a unified microphysics parameterization (“MG2”). In this model, all cloud types --- including marine stratocumulus, shallow cumulus, and deep cumulus --- are represented with a single equation set. This model improves the representation of convection in the Tropics. The model has been compared with ARM observations. The chief benefit of the project is to provide a climate model that is based on a more theoretically rigorous formulation.},
doi = {10.2172/1326797},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1326797}, journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Sep 28 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Wed Sep 28 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}