A New Moist Turbulence Parameterization in the Community Atmosphere Model

By Chris Bretherton, Sungsu Park. 2009

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Higher-Order Turbulence Closure and Its Impact on Climate Simulations in the Community Atmosphere Model (2013, background): “…success in simulating Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Cloud System Study (GCSS) boundary layer cases in singlecolumn models (SCMs; e.g., Pergaud et al. 2009; Golaz et al. 2002; Cheng and Xu 2008), their testing and applications into GCMs has thus far been virtually nonexistent.”
A Unified Convection Scheme (UNICON). Part I: Formulation (2014, methodology): “Within a long Dt [51800 s for the Community Atmosphere Model, version 5 (CAM5; Park et al. 2014), with 30 vertical layers], however, the observed convective plumes can evolve, so that some of the precedent convective updraft area can be occupied by the subsequent convective downdraft within Dt, maki”
Impacts of cloud microphysics on trade wind cumulus: which cloud microphysics processes contribute to the diversity in a large eddy simulation? (2015, methodology): “For example, Bretherton and Park (2009) used the results of an LES model to develop a new moist turbulent parameterization.”
The University of Washington Shallow Convection and Moist Turbulence Schemes and Their Impact on Climate Simulations with the Community Atmosphere Model (2009, methodology): “In a companion paper (Bretherton and Park 2009, hereafter BP09), we describe the UWMT scheme as implemented in CAM3.”
Toward a Minimal Representation of Aerosols in Climate Models: Comparative Decomposition of Aerosol Direct, Semidirect, and Indirect Radiative Forcing (2012, methodology): “The treatment of turbulence in CAM.1 is described by Bretherton and Park (2009), and its performance is evaluated by Park and Bretherton (2009).”
Stable Atmospheric Boundary Layers and Diurnal Cycles: Challenges for Weather and Climate Models (2013, background): “The diurnal cycles of near-surface variables in CAM4 and CAM5 have been evaluated using many years of data from flux-tower observations by Lindvall et al. (2013).”
Technical Note: On the use of nudging for aerosol–climate model intercomparison studies (2014, methodology): “The moist turbulence is represented by the parameterization developed by Bretherton and Park (2009). Shortwave and longwave radiative transfer calculations are performed using the RRTMG code (Iacono et al., 2008; Mlawer et al., 1997). Further details of the model formulation are described in Neale e”
A Description of the Advanced Research WRF Model Version 4 (2019, background): “The scheme of Bretherton and Park (2009) is part of the CAM climate model physics suite.”
Exposing Global Cloud Biases in the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) Using Satellite Observations and Their Corresponding Instrument Simulators (2012, methodology): “2008) Planetary boundary layer and turbulence Moist turbulence scheme based on diagnostic TKE (Bretherton and Park 2009) Dry turbulence scheme based on specified K profile (Holtslag and Boville 1993) Cloud microphysics and macrophysics Prognostic double moment microphysics (Morrison and Gettelman 20”
Global Mean Climate and Main Patterns of Variability in the CMCC‐CM2 Coupled Model (2018, methodology): “…scheme to explicitly simulate stratus-radiation-turbulence interactions thus taking into account the full aerosols indirect effects within stratus (Bretherthon & Park, 2009); (ii) a new shallow convection scheme to accurately simulate the spatial distribution of the shallow convective activity…”
The Evolution of Climate Sensitivity and Climate Feedbacks in the Community Atmosphere Model (2012, background): “CAM5 contains an updated moist boundary layer (Bretherton and Park 2009) and shallow cumulus convection scheme (Park and Bretherton 2009) that improves the simulation of low clouds (Neale et al. 2010).”