DCMIP2016: the splitting supercell test case

Zarzycki, Colin M.; Jablonowski, Christiane; Kent, James; Lauritzen, Peter H.; Nair, Ramachandran; Reed, Kevin A.; Ullrich, Paul A.; Hall, David M.; Taylor, Mark A.; Dazlich, Don; Heikes, Ross; Konor, Celal; Randall, David; Chen, Xi; Harris, Lucas; Giorgetta, Marco; Reinert, Daniel; Kühnlein, Christian; Walko, Robert; Lee, Vivian; Qaddouri, Abdessamad; Tanguay, Monique; Miura, Hiroaki; Ohno, Tomoki; Yoshida, Ryuji; Park, Sang-Hun; Klemp, Joseph B.; Skamarock, William C.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-879-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-879-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-879-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 3

Methods for assessment of models

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05 Mar 2019

Methods for assessment of models |

| 05 Mar 2019

DCMIP2016: the splitting supercell test case

Colin M. Zarzycki, Christiane Jablonowski, James Kent, Peter H. Lauritzen, Ramachandran Nair, Kevin A. Reed, Paul A. Ullrich, David M. Hall, Mark A. Taylor, Don Dazlich, Ross Heikes, Celal Konor, David Randall, Xi Chen, Lucas Harris, Marco Giorgetta, Daniel Reinert, Christian Kühnlein, Robert Walko, Vivian Lee, Abdessamad Qaddouri, Monique Tanguay, Hiroaki Miura, Tomoki Ohno, Ryuji Yoshida, Sang-Hun Park, Joseph B. Klemp, and William C. Skamarock

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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SC1: 'Code Availability', Lutz Gross, 27 Aug 2018
- AC1: 'DCMIP2016 Zenodo reference', Colin Zarzycki, 28 Aug 2018
RC1: 'Review of: DCMIP2016: The Splitting Supercell Test Case', Anonymous Referee #1, 17 Sep 2018
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer #1', Colin Zarzycki, 10 Dec 2018
RC2: 'Review of "DCMIP2016: The Splitting Supercell Test Case"', Anonymous Referee #2, 28 Oct 2018
- AC3: 'Response to Reviewer #2', Colin Zarzycki, 10 Dec 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Colin Zarzycki on behalf of the Authors (10 Dec 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (11 Dec 2018) by Simone Marras

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (26 Dec 2018)

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (27 Dec 2018) by Simone Marras

AR by Colin Zarzycki on behalf of the Authors (04 Feb 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (11 Feb 2019) by Simone Marras

AR by Colin Zarzycki on behalf of the Authors (11 Feb 2019) Manuscript

Short summary

We summarize the results of the Dynamical Core Model Intercomparison Project's idealized supercell test case. Supercells are storm-scale weather phenomena that are a key target for next-generation, non-hydrostatic weather prediction models. We show that the dynamical cores of most global numerical models converge between approximately 1 and 0.5 km grid spacing for this test, although differences in final solution exist, particularly due to differing grid discretizations and numerical diffusion.