GCMs with implicit and explicit representation of cloud microphysics for simulation of extreme precipitation frequency

Verfasser / Beitragende:
[In-Sik Kang, Young-Min Yang, Wei-Kuo Tao]
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
2015
Enthalten in:
Climate Dynamics, 45/1-2(2015-07-01), 325-335
Format:
Artikel (online)
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245 0 0 |a GCMs with implicit and explicit representation of cloud microphysics for simulation of extreme precipitation frequency  |h [Elektronische Daten]  |c [In-Sik Kang, Young-Min Yang, Wei-Kuo Tao] 
520 3 |a The present study aims to develop a general circulation model (GCM) with improved simulation of heavy precipitation frequency by improving the representations of cloud and rain processes. GCMs with conventional convective parameterizations produce common bias in precipitation frequency: they overestimate light precipitation and underestimate heavy precipitation with respect to observed values. This frequency shift toward light precipitation is attributed here to a lack of consideration of cloud microphysical processes related to heavy precipitation. The budget study of cloud microphysical processes using a cloud-resolving model shows that the melting of graupel and accretion of cloud water by graupel and rain water are important processes in the generation of heavy precipitation. However, those processes are not expressed explicitly in conventional GCMs with convective parameterizations. In the present study, the cloud microphysics is modified to allow its implementation into a GCM with a horizontal resolution of 50km. The newly developed GCM, which includes explicit cloud microphysics, produces more heavy precipitation and less light precipitation than conventional GCMs, thus simulating a precipitation frequency that is closer to the observed. This study demonstrates that the GCM requires a full representation of cloud microphysics to simulate the extreme precipitation frequency realistically. It is also shown that a coarse-resolution GCM with cloud microphysics requires an additional mixing process in the lower troposphere. 
540 |a Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2014 
690 7 |a Frequency of heavy precipitation  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Cloud resolving model  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a GCM  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Cold-cloud processes  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Cloud microphysics  |2 nationallicence 
700 1 |a Kang  |D In-Sik  |u School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, 151-747, Seoul, South Korea  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Yang  |D Young-Min  |u International Pacific Research Center, SOEST, University of Hawaii, 96822, Honolulu, HI, USA  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Tao  |D Wei-Kuo  |u Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Laboratory, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, 20771, Greenbelt, MD, USA  |4 aut 
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950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Kang  |D In-Sik  |u School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, 151-747, Seoul, South Korea  |4 aut 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Yang  |D Young-Min  |u International Pacific Research Center, SOEST, University of Hawaii, 96822, Honolulu, HI, USA  |4 aut 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Tao  |D Wei-Kuo  |u Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Laboratory, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, 20771, Greenbelt, MD, USA  |4 aut 
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