The Dynamics of Idealized Convection Schemes and Their Effect on the Zonally Averaged Tropical Circulation

By D. Frierson. 2007

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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In Atmospheric Science

1. D. Frierson
2. Tapio Schneider
3. M. Byrne
4. P. O’Gorman
5. Jian Lu
6. A. Sobel
7. E. Maloney
8. Gang Chen

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Tapio Schneider
2. D. Frierson
3. M. Byrne
4. P. O’Gorman
5. Jian Lu
6. A. Sobel
7. E. Maloney
8. Gang Chen

Citations in the corpus

• WATER VAPOR AND THE DYNAMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGES (2009, background): “This allows us to explore a continuum of climates, constrain macroscopic laws governing this climatic continuum, and place past and possible future climate changes in a broader context.”
• The Tropical Response to Extratropical Thermal Forcing in an Idealized GCM: The Importance of Radiative Feedbacks and Convective Parameterization (2009, unknown): “vection scheme that is described in Frierson (2007a). The model uses the primitive equations with T42 horizontal resolution and 25 vertical levels.”
• Land–Ocean Warming Contrast over a Wide Range of Climates: Convective Quasi-Equilibrium Theory and Idealized Simulations (2013, unknown): “We use a moist idealized GCM similar to that of Frierson et al. (2006) and Frierson (2007), with the specific details documented by O’Gorman and Schneider”
• Energetic Constraints on the Position of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (2013, methodology): “a fixed reference relative humidity of 70% (O’Gorman and Schneider 2008; Frierson 2007).”
• Understanding Decreases in Land Relative Humidity with Global Warming: Conceptual Model and GCM Simulations (2016, background): “It is based on a spectral version of the GFDL dynamical core, with a two-stream gray radiation scheme, no cloud or water vapor radiative feedbacks, and the simplified moist convection scheme of Frierson (2007).”
• A Gray-Radiation Aquaplanet Moist GCM. Part II: Energy Transports in Altered Climates (2007, methodology): “We have additionally developed a simplified Betts–Miller convection scheme for use in this model (Frierson 2007); the results presented here, focused primarily on midlatitude fluxes, are insensitive to the choice of convection scheme unless otherwise stated.”
• Width of the Hadley cell in simple and comprehensive general circulation models (2007, methodology): “The model physics includes gray radiative transfer (which does not include water vapor or cloud radiative feedbacks), a simplified Monin-Obukhov surface flux scheme, a K-profile boundary layer scheme, and a simplified Betts-Miller convection scheme [Betts, 1986; Betts and Miller, 1986; Frierson, 20”
• Surface Fluxes and Tropical Intraseasonal Variability: a Reassessment (2008, methodology): “Since the latter can vary dynamically on a range of space and time scales, the GMS can as well.”
• Scaling of Precipitation Extremes over a Wide Range of Climates Simulated with an Idealized GCM (2009, background): “The idealized GCM (section 2) employs simplified moist parameterizations (Frierson 2007), which are based on similar physical principles to those used in comprehensive climate models, but have fewer tunable parameters or thresholds that can influence the dependence of precipitation extremes on…”