A new two-moment bulk stratiform cloud microphysics scheme in the Community Atmosphere Model, version 3 (CAM3). Part I: Description and numerical tests

By Hugh Morrison, Andrew Gettelman. 2008

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Evidence of liquid dependent ice nucleation in high‐latitude stratiform clouds from surface remote sensors (2011, background): “Many microphysical schemes allow nucleation of ice below water saturation when −25 C ≤ T ≤ 10 C [e.g., Lin et al., 1983; Hong et al., 2004; Morrison and Gettelman, 2008 ].”
Intercomparison of the cloud water phase among global climate models (2014, background): “3374 stratiform clouds are predicted [Morrison and Gettelman, 2008].”
The Non-hydrostatic Icosahedral Atmospheric Model: description and development (2014, methodology): “…et al. 2008; Tomita 2008b), and the double-moment bulk method predicts the number concentration in addition to the mass concentration (Meyers et al. 1997; Feingold et al. 1998; Morrison et al. 2005; Seifert and Beheng 2006; Phillips et al. 2007; Morrison and Gettelman 2008; Lim and Hong 2010).”
The Mean Climate of the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM4) in Forced SST and Fully Coupled Experiments (2013, background): “…a result of the shift in ice cloud closure from a purely relative humidity based formulation in CAM3 and CAM4 (Zhang et al. 2003) to a scheme that allows ice supersaturation (Gettelman et al. 2010) when working in concert with the new CAM5 two-moment micro-physics (Morrison and Gettelman 2008).”
A Classical-Theory-Based Parameterization of Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation by Mineral Dust, Soot, and Biological Particles in a Global Climate Model (2010, methodology): “Parameterizations that are used in large-scale models are mostly empirical (Lohmann 2002; Lohmann and Diehl 2006; Hoose et al. 2008; Morrison and Gettelman 2008; Phillips et al. 2008; Storelvmo et al. 2008a).”
An improved representation of the raindrop size distribution for single‐moment microphysics schemes (2012, background): “…is typically represented with either a gamma distribution (Ferrier, 1994; Morrison et al., 2005) or an exponential distribution (Lin et al., 1983; Rutledge and Hobbs, 1983; Fowler et al., 1996; Wilson and Ballard, 1999; Seifert and Beheng, 2006; Morrison and Gettelman, 2008; Thompson et al., 2008).”
Seamless Stratocumulus Simulation across the Turbulent Gray Zone (2014, methodology): “…parameterizations of the subgrid variability of cloud and rainwater at different spatial scales, and presented a method of using these parameterizations to correct microphysical process rates for this bias, following methods similar to Morrison and Gettelman (2008) and Larson and Griffin (2013).”
The Evolution of Climate Sensitivity and Climate Feedbacks in the Community Atmosphere Model (2012, background): “The new two-moment stratiform cloud micro-physics scheme (Gettelman et al. 2010; Morrison and Gettelman 2008) includes aerosol activation of cloud drops/crystals for liquid and ice, explicitly treating aerosol–cloud interactions.”
Aerosol indirect effects – general circulation model intercomparison and evaluation with satellite data (2009, neutral): “The modiﬁ-cations include new two-moment microphysics (Gettelman et al., 2008; Morrison and Gettelman, 2008) including a physically based method for the aerosol activation of cloud droplets (Abdul-Razzak and Ghan, 2000), a diagnostic cloud cover scheme based on relative humidity after Slingo (1987)…”
Enhanced Solar Energy Absorption by Internally-Mixed Black Carbon in Snow Grains (2012, background): “…MAM7-CAM5, aerosols interact with clouds through activation, transport, aqueous chemistry, and resuspension, thereby influencing the aerosol amounts that exist interstitially and within cloud hydrometeors (Easter et al., 2004; Ghan and Easter, 2006; Morrison and Gettelman, 2008; Liu et al., 2012).”
Understanding Cloud and Convective Characteristics in Version 1 of the E3SM Atmosphere Model (2018, methodology): “Version 2 of Morrison and Gettelman (2008) represents an update to the MG2008 microphysics scheme used in CAM5.”