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DOI	10.1029/2020MS002205
	How Well Do Large-Eddy Simulations and Global Climate Models Represent Observed Boundary Layer Structures and Low Clouds Over the Summertime Southern Ocean?
	Atlas R.L.; Bretherton C.S.; Blossey P.N.; Gettelman A.; Bardeen C.; Lin P.; Ming Y.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	19422466
卷号	12 期号:11
英文摘要	Climate models struggle to accurately represent the highly reflective boundary layer clouds overlying the remote and stormy Southern Ocean. We use in situ aircraft observations from the Southern Ocean Clouds, Radiation and Aerosol Transport Experimental Study (SOCRATES) to evaluate Southern Ocean clouds in a cloud-resolving large-eddy simulation (LES) and two coarse resolution global atmospheric models, the CESM Community Atmosphere Model (CAM6) and the GFDL Atmosphere Model (AM4), run in a nudged hindcast framework. We develop six case studies from SOCRATES data which span the range of observed cloud and boundary layer properties. For each case, the LES is run once forced purely using reanalysis data (fifth generation European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts atmospheric reanalysis, “ERA5 based”) and once strongly nudged to an aircraft profile(“Obs based”). The ERA5-based LES can be compared with the global models, which are also nudged to reanalysis data and are better for simulating cumulus. The Obs-based LES closely matches an observed cloud profile and is useful for microphysical comparisons and sensitivity tests and simulating multilayer stratiform clouds. We use two-moment Morrison microphysics in the LES and find that it simulates too few frozen particles in clouds occurring within the Hallett-Mossop temperature range. We tweak the Hallett-Mossop parameterization so that it activates within boundary layer clouds, and we achieve better agreement between observed and simulated microphysics. The nudged global climate models (GCMs) simulate liquid-dominated mixed-phase clouds in the stratiform cases but excessively glaciate cumulus clouds. Both GCMs struggle to represent two-layer clouds, and CAM6 has low droplet concentrations in all cases and underpredicts stratiform cloud-driven turbulence. ©2020. The Authors.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Aircraft; Atmospheric movements; Boundary layers; Clouds; Large eddy simulation; Oceanography; Weather forecasting; Aircraft observations; Atmospheric reanalysis; Boundary layer clouds; Boundary layer structure; Community atmosphere model; Droplet concentration; European centre for medium-range weather forecasts; Global atmospheric models; Climate models; airborne survey; boundary layer; climate modeling; cloud droplet; cloud microphysics; cumulus; global climate; large eddy simulation; parameterization; Southern Ocean
来源期刊	Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/156581
作者单位	Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States; Vulcan Climate Modeling, Seattle, WA, United States; National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO, United States; Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States; Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), Princeton, NJ, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Atlas R.L.,Bretherton C.S.,Blossey P.N.,et al. How Well Do Large-Eddy Simulations and Global Climate Models Represent Observed Boundary Layer Structures and Low Clouds Over the Summertime Southern Ocean?[J],2020,12(11).
APA	Atlas R.L..,Bretherton C.S..,Blossey P.N..,Gettelman A..,Bardeen C..,...&Ming Y..(2020).How Well Do Large-Eddy Simulations and Global Climate Models Represent Observed Boundary Layer Structures and Low Clouds Over the Summertime Southern Ocean?.Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems,12(11).
MLA	Atlas R.L.,et al."How Well Do Large-Eddy Simulations and Global Climate Models Represent Observed Boundary Layer Structures and Low Clouds Over the Summertime Southern Ocean?".Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 12.11(2020).