Articles | Volume 16, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-1937-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-1937-2023
Development and technical paper
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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

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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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