PC2: A prognostic cloud fraction and condensation scheme. I: Scheme description

By Damian R. Wilson, A. Bushell, A. Kerr‐Munslow, J. Price, C. Morcrette. 2008

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The Met Office Global Coupled Model 3.0 and 3.1 (GC3.0 and GC3.1) Configurations (2017, neutral): “HadGEM2-AO has excess reflected shortwave in the subtropical transition regions which has been addressed through the introduction of the new prognostic cloud and condensate scheme (PC2; Wilson et al., 2008).”
Design and implementation of the infrastructure of HadGEM3: the next-generation Met Office climate modelling system (2010, methodology): “It uses the Prognostic Cloud Prognostic Condensate (PC2) scheme described by Wilson et al. (2008).”
A mechanism for lagged North Atlantic climate response to solar variability (2013, methodology): “It uses a semi-Lagrangian advection scheme and non-hydrostatic primitive equations [Davies et al., 2005] with a timestep of 20minutes, a prognostic cloud scheme [Wilson et al., 2008], and a multi-band radiation scheme [Edwards and Slingo, 1996].”
Satellite cloud and precipitation assimilation at operational NWP centres (2011, neutral): “Moist physics Always active Diabatic 1st inner loop Global: Simple physics and advanced physics (35 iterations).”
Improved variational analyses using a nonlinear humidity control variable (2013, methodology): “A prognostic cloud fraction and prognostic condensate scheme (PC2: Wilson et al., 2008; Morcrette et al., 2012) was implemented in 2010.”