Geoscientific Model Development
Geoscientific Model Development
GMD
Articles | Volume 16, issue 7
Articles | Volume 16, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-1937-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-1937-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 7
Development and technical paper
 | 
06 Apr 2023
Development and technical paper |  | 06 Apr 2023

Effects of complex terrain on the shortwave radiative balance: a sub-grid-scale parameterization for the GFDL Earth System Model version 4.1

Enrico Zorzetto, Sergey Malyshev, Nathaniel Chaney, David Paynter, Raymond Menzel, and Elena Shevliakova

Data sets

Data used for developing a parameterization for spatial distribution of solar irradiance over rugged terrain Enrico Zorzetto https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6975857

Model code and software

Code for analyzing the sub–grid distribution of shortwave radiation over mountainous terrain. Enrico Zorzetto https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7714735

Software for constructing topography-aware subgrid land tiled datasets Enrico Zorzetto https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7720281

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Short summary
In this paper we develop a methodology to model the spatial distribution of solar radiation received by land over mountainous terrain. The approach is designed to be used in Earth system models, where coarse grid cells hinder the description of fine-scale land–atmosphere interactions. We adopt a clustering algorithm to partition the land domain into a set of homogeneous sub-grid tiles, and for each tile we evaluate solar radiation received by land based on terrain properties.
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