Abstract
A modified formulation of fractional stratiform condensation rate in the NCAR Community Atmospheric Model (CAM2)
Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, USA
Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, USA
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
This paper describes a modified formulation of stratiform condensation rate associated with fractional cloudiness in the Community
Atmospheric Model Version 2 (CAM2). It introduces an equation to link cloudiness change with the variation of total condensate.
Together with a diagnostic cloud relationship that represents subgrid-scale variability of relative humidity, a closed system
is formed to calculate the fractional condensation rate. As a result, the new formulation eliminates the two closure assumptions
in the
Published 15 January 2003.
Citation: (2003), A modified formulation of fractional stratiform condensation rate in the NCAR Community Atmospheric Model (CAM2), J. Geophys. Res., 108(D1), 4035, doi:10.1029/2002JD002523.
Cited By
