The GFDL Cloud Microphysics Parameterization

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• Personal Author:
  Zhou, Linjiong ; Harris, Lucas ; Chen, Jan-Huey
• Corporate Authors:
  Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (U.S.)
• NOAA Program & Office:
  OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; GFDL (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory) ; CIMES (Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System)
• Description:
  Clouds play critical roles in our daily weather and in the global energy and water budgets that regulate the climate of the Earth (Lamb and Verlinde, 2011; Houze, 2014). The formation and evolution of clouds significantly impact precipitation forecasts in numerical weather prediction (Seifert and Beheng, 2005; Morrison and Grabowski, 2008; Baldauf et al., 2011; Bauer et al., 2015). Clouds and their impacts on solar and thermal radiation are among the most challenging aspects of climate prediction (Trenberth et al., 2009; Stephens et al., 2012; Wild et al., 2019). Therefore, the representation of clouds in atmospheric models has to be paid particular attention to. Among all physical processes in a model, cloud microphysics is less well represented but is of critical importance. Because the processes are not readily resolved in time and space, cloud microphysics parameterization is essential from large-eddy to global simulations (Morrison and Grabowski, 2008; Kogan, 2013; Nogherotto et al., 2016).
• Keywords:
  Cloud FV3 Large Eddy Simulation Microphysics Parameterization
• Series:
  NOAA technical memorandum OAR GFDL   2022-002
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25923/pz3c-8b96
• Document Type:
  Technical Memorandum
• Funding:
  Grant no. NA18OAR4320123
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a733901d7b7d11a61586bd55c47bfebe7837f749672e0dc62df7f119d3523c0a
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  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/44636/noaa_44636_DS1.pdf
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