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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 28, NO. 18, PAGES 3617–3620, 2001

A Cloud Resolving Model as a Cloud Parameterization in the NCAR Community Climate System Model: Preliminary Results

Marat F. Khairoutdinov

Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado


David A. Randall

Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado


Abstract

Preliminary results of a short climate simulation with a 2-D cloud resolving model (CRM) installed into each grid column of an NCAR Community Climate System Model (CCSM) are presented. The CRM replaces the conventional convective and stratiform cloud parameterizations, and allows for explicit computation of the global cloud fraction distribution for radiation computations. The extreme computational cost of the combined CCSM/CRM model has thus far limited us to a two-month long climate simulation (December-January) using 2.8° × 2.8° resolution. The simulated geographical distributions of the total rainfall, precipitable water, cloud cover, and Earth radiation budget, for the month of January, look very reasonable.

Received 30 May 2001; accepted 16 July 2001.

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Citation: Khairoutdinov, M. F., and D. A. Randall (2001), A Cloud Resolving Model as a Cloud Parameterization in the NCAR Community Climate System Model: Preliminary Results, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28(18), 3617–3620.