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DOI | 10.5194/acp-20-6129-2020 |
The vertical structure and spatial variability of lower-tropospheric water vapor and clouds in the trades | |
Kristin Naumann A.; Kiemle C. | |
发表日期 | 2020 |
ISSN | 16807316 |
起始页码 | 6129 |
结束页码 | 6145 |
卷号 | 20期号:10 |
英文摘要 | Horizontal and vertical variability of water vapor is omnipresent in the tropics, but its interaction with cloudiness poses challenges for weather and climate models. In this study we compare airborne lidar measurements from a summer and a winter field campaign in the tropical Atlantic with high-resolution simulations to analyze the water vapor distributions in the trade wind regime, its covariation with cloudiness, and their representation in simulations. Across model grid spacing from 300m to 2.5km, the simulations show good skill in reproducing the water vapor distribution in the trades as measured by the lidar. An exception to this is a pronounced moist model bias at the top of the shallow cumulus layer in the dry winter season which is accompanied by a humidity gradient that is too weak at the inversion near the cloud top. The model's underestimation of water vapor variability in the cloud and subcloud layer occurs in both seasons but is less pronounced than the moist model bias at the inversion. Despite the model's insensitivity to resolution from hecto- to kilometer scale for the distribution of water vapor, cloud fraction decreases strongly with increasing model resolution and is not converged at hectometer grid spacing. The observed cloud deepening with increasing water vapor path is captured well across model resolution, but the concurrent transition from cloud-free to low cloud fraction is better represented at hectometer resolution. In particular, in the wet summer season the simulations with kilometer-scale resolution overestimate the observed cloud fraction near the inversion but lack condensate near the observed cloud base. This illustrates how a model's ability to properly capture the water vapor distribution does not necessarily translate into an adequate representation of shallow cumulus clouds that live at the tail of the water vapor distribution. © 2020 Copernicus GmbH. All rights reserved. |
关键词 | cloud classificationcloud microphysicscomputer simulationnumerical modelseasonal variationspatiotemporal analysistropospherewater vapor |
语种 | 英语 |
来源机构 | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/132013 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Kristin Naumann A.,Kiemle C.. The vertical structure and spatial variability of lower-tropospheric water vapor and clouds in the trades[J]. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics,2020,20(10). |
APA | Kristin Naumann A.,&Kiemle C..(2020).The vertical structure and spatial variability of lower-tropospheric water vapor and clouds in the trades.,20(10). |
MLA | Kristin Naumann A.,et al."The vertical structure and spatial variability of lower-tropospheric water vapor and clouds in the trades".20.10(2020). |
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