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AGU: Journal of Geophysical Research, Atmospheres

 

Keywords

  • statistical cloud scheme
  • cloud parameterization
  • variance budget

Index Terms

  • Atmospheric Processes: Convective processes
  • Atmospheric Processes: Global climate models
  • Atmospheric Processes: Clouds and cloud feedbacks
Abstract
Cited By (3)
 

Abstract

How might a statistical cloud scheme be coupled to a mass-flux convection scheme?

Stephen A. Klein

NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Robert Pincus

Climate Diagnostics Center, NOAA Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Cécile Hannay

Climate Diagnostics Center, NOAA Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Kuan-Man Xu

NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA

The coupling of statistical cloud schemes with mass-flux convection schemes is addressed. Source terms representing the impact of convection are derived within the framework of prognostic equations for the width and asymmetry of the probability distribution function of total water mixing ratio. The accuracy of these source terms is quantified by examining output from a cloud-resolving model simulation of deep convection. Practical suggestions for the inclusion of these source terms in large-scale models are offered.

Received 14 May 2004; accepted 11 October 2004; published 21 April 2005.

Citation: Klein, S. A., R. Pincus, C. Hannay, and K.-M. Xu (2005), How might a statistical cloud scheme be coupled to a mass-flux convection scheme?, J. Geophys. Res., 110, D15S06, doi:10.1029/2004JD005017.

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