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Model experiment description paper
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07 Jan 2021
Model experiment description paper |
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A multi-year short-range hindcast experiment with CESM1 for evaluating climate model moist processes from diurnal to interannual timescales
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA
Chen Zhou
School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Yunyan Zhang
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA
Stephen A. Klein
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA
Mark D. Zelinka
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA
Xue Zheng
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA
Shaocheng Xie
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA
Wei-Ting Chen
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University,
Taipei, Taiwan
Chien-Ming Wu
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University,
Taipei, Taiwan
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Geosci. Model Dev., 14, 1219–1236, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-1219-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-1219-2021, 2021
Peter A. Bogenschutz, Shuaiqi Tang, Peter M. Caldwell, Shaocheng Xie, Wuyin Lin, and Yao-Sheng Chen
Geosci. Model Dev., 13, 4443–4458, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-4443-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-4443-2020, 2020
Short summary
Short summary
This paper documents a tool that has been developed that can be used to accelerate the development and understanding of climate models. This version of the model, known as a the single-column model, is much faster to run than the full climate model, and we demonstrate that this tool can be used to quickly exploit model biases that arise due to physical processes. We show examples of how this single-column model can directly benefit the field.
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Short summary
We propose an experimental design of a suite of multi-year, short-term hindcasts and compare them with corresponding observations or measurements for periods based on different weather and climate phenomena. This atypical way of evaluating model performance is particularly useful and beneficial, as these hindcasts can give scientists a robust picture of modeled precipitation, and cloud and radiation processes from their diurnal variation to year-to-year variability.
We propose an experimental design of a suite of multi-year, short-term hindcasts and compare...
