Nonhydrostatic icosahedral atmospheric model (NICAM) for global cloud resolving simulations

By Masaki Satoh, Taro Matsuno, Hirofumi Tomita, Hiroaki Miura, Tomoe Nasuno, Shin-ichi Iga. Journal of Computational Physics, 2008

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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DYAMOND: the DYnamics of the Atmospheric general circulation Modeled On Non-hydrostatic Domains (2019, methodology): “FV3 and GEOS5 share a dynamical core based on a cubed sphere, NICAM and ICON use an icosahedral grid as a starting point for their discretization, and MPAS employs spherical centroidal Voronoi tessellation.”
A review on regional convection‐permitting climate modeling: Demonstrations, prospects, and challenges (2015, methodology): “This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.”
Dreary state of precipitation in global models (2010, background): “…(HadGEM1) [Johns, 2006]; and (5) a more restricted 4 day July simulation of the global cloud‐resolving model NICAM (Nonhydrostatic ICosahedral Atmospheric Model) [e.g., Satoh et al., 2008] in the form reported by Suzuki et al. [2008] for versions of the model with grid resolutions of 7 and 14 km.”
Toward Convective-Scale Prediction within the Next Generation Global Prediction System (2019, background): “1997) is potentially more advantageous for mesoscale prediction (Miura et al. 2007; Fudeyasu et al. 2008; Satoh et al. 2008; Putman and Suarez 2011; Miyamoto et al. 2013).”
Horizontal grids for global weather and climate prediction models: a review (2012, background): “…and Randall (2002a), Majewski et al. (2002), Randall et al. (2002), Tomita and Satoh (2004), Giraldo and Warburton (2005), Miura and Kimoto (2005), Satoh et al. (2008), Giraldo et al. (2008), Läuter et al. (2008), Walko and Avissar (2008a,b), Comblen et al. (2009), Lee and MacDonald (2009),…”
Deep moist atmospheric convection in a subkilometer global simulation (2013, methodology): “Recent advances in computer power and development of a new type of model to solve fluid motions on a sphere have made it possible to conduct global simulations without cumulus parameterizations [Tomita and Satoh, 2004; Satoh et al., 2008].”
HESS Opinions "Should we apply bias correction to global and regional climate model data?" (2012, background): “Stephens et al. (2010), Sun et al. (2006). Specifically for Europe, Christensen et al.”
The Non-hydrostatic Icosahedral Atmospheric Model: description and development (2014, methodology): “NICAM adopts the Lorenz grid and z* (terrain-following) coordinates (Gal-Chen and Somerville 1975) as a vertical coordinate system (Figure 3 of Satoh et al. 2008).”
A Cumulus Parameterization with State-Dependent Entrainment Rate. Part I: Description and Sensitivity to Temperature and Humidity Profiles (2010, methodology): “…models (CRMs) embedded in AGCM grids and a global CRM began to be used recently thanks to the rapid progress of computer technology (Grabowski 2001; Khairoutdinov and Randall 2001; Satoh et al. 2008), such models are very expensive to run and require a huge amount of storages for the output.”
The pros and cons of diffusion, filters and fixers in Atmospheric General Circulation Models (2011, methodology): “This was argued in Tomita and Satoh (2004) who also give guidance on the choice of the divergence damping coefficient for the model NICAM.”
WHOLE ATMOSPHERE MODELING: CONNECTING TERRESTRIAL AND SPACE WEATHER (2011, background): “At the same time both grid point and spectral models rely on artificial numerical horizontal diffusion preventing from accumulation of power at smallest resolved scales, which may result in numerical instability [e.g., Davies et al., 2005; Hamilton et al., 2008; Satoh et al., 2008].”
Adaptive covariance relaxation methods for ensemble data assimilation: experiments in the real atmosphere (2017, methodology): “We use the Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter (LETKF: Hunt et al., 2007) with the Nonhydrostatic Icosahedral Atmospheric Model (NICAM: Satoh et al., 2008; Satoh et al., 2014), the system known as NICAM-LETKF (Terasaki et al., 2015), and assimilate both conventional observations and satellite…”
Multiscale Convective Organization and the YOTC Virtual Global Field Campaign (2012, background): “Ob s er v at ion s show that MCSs on the order of 100 km produce about half the total precipitation in the tropics (Schumacher and Houze 2003) and have distinctive vertical heating profiles (e.g., Houze 1993, 19 9 7).”
A Multiscale Nonhydrostatic Atmospheric Model Using Centroidal Voronoi Tesselations and C-Grid Staggering (2012, methodology): “…areas allowing nonhydrostatic motions, such as the exploratory efforts in the global nonhydro-static variable-resolution modeling of Yeh et al. (2002), and global high-resolution uniform-mesh modeling where nonhydrostatic scales are permitted everywhere on the globe, as in Satoh et al. (2008).”