SimCloud version 1.0: a simple diagnostic cloud scheme for idealized climate models

Liu, Qun; Collins, Matthew; Maher, Penelope; Thomson, Stephen I.; Vallis, Geoffrey K.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-2801-2021

Articles | Volume 14, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-2801-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-2801-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 5

Model description paper

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19 May 2021

Model description paper |

| 19 May 2021

SimCloud version 1.0: a simple diagnostic cloud scheme for idealized climate models

Qun Liu, Matthew Collins, Penelope Maher, Stephen I. Thomson, and Geoffrey K. Vallis

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SC1: 'executive editor comment on gmd-2020-402', Astrid Kerkweg, 21 Dec 2020
- SC2: 'Reply to the Executive Editor's Comments', Qun Liu, 21 Dec 2020
RC1: 'The manuscript is well written and should be accepted after minor revisions.', Anonymous Referee #1, 07 Jan 2021
- AC1: 'Short reply to reviewers', Qun Liu, 19 Jan 2021
RC2: 'Review of Qun Liu et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 18 Jan 2021
- AC2: 'Short reply to reviewers', Qun Liu, 19 Jan 2021

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

AR by Qun Liu on behalf of the Authors (11 Mar 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (28 Mar 2021) by Sylwester Arabas

Short summary

Clouds play an vital role in Earth's energy budget, and even a small change in cloud fields can have a large impact on the climate system. They also bring lots of uncertainties to climate models. Here we implement a simple diagnostic cloud scheme in order to reproduce the general radiative properties of clouds. The scheme can capture some key features of the cloud fraction and cloud radiative properties and thus provide a useful tool to explore unsolved problems relating to clouds.