Articles | Volume 16, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-335-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-335-2023
Development and technical paper
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12 Jan 2023
Development and technical paper |  | 12 Jan 2023

Combining regional mesh refinement with vertically enhanced physics to target marine stratocumulus biases as demonstrated in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model version 1

Peter A. Bogenschutz, Hsiang-He Lee, Qi Tang, and Takanobu Yamaguchi

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Code and Data for Southeast Pacific Regionally Refined Mesh Peter Bogenschutz https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6986304

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Short summary
Models that are used to simulate and predict climate often have trouble representing specific cloud types, such as stratocumulus, that are particularly thin in the vertical direction. It has been found that increasing the model resolution can help improve this problem. In this paper, we develop a novel framework that increases the horizontal and vertical resolutions only for areas of the globe that contain stratocumulus, hence reducing the model runtime while providing better results.