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The Grell–Freitas (GF) convection parameterization: recent developments, extensions, and applications
Saulo R. Freitas
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research, Universities Space
Research Association, Columbia, MD, USA
Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Georg A. Grell
Earth Systems Research Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Boulder, CO, USA
Haiqin Li
Earth Systems Research Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Boulder, CO, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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Climate, 21, 4115–413, https://doi.org/10.1175/2008JCLI2140.1, 2008.
Short summary
Convection parameterization (CP) is a component of atmospheric models aiming to represent the statistical effects of subgrid-scale convective clouds. Because the atmosphere contains circulations with a broad spectrum of scales, the truncation needed to run models in computers requires the introduction of parameterizations to account for processes that are not explicitly resolved. We detail recent developments in the Grell–Freitas CP, which has been applied in several regional and global models.
Convection parameterization (CP) is a component of atmospheric models aiming to represent the...
