Articles | Volume 17, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-1563-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-1563-2024
Development and technical paper
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22 Feb 2024
Development and technical paper |  | 22 Feb 2024

Effects of vertical grid spacing on the climate simulated in the ICON-Sapphire global storm-resolving model

Hauke Schmidt, Sebastian Rast, Jiawei Bao, Amrit Cassim, Shih-Wei Fang, Diego Jimenez-de la Cuesta, Paul Keil, Lukas Kluft, Clarissa Kroll, Theresa Lang, Ulrike Niemeier, Andrea Schneidereit, Andrew I. L. Williams, and Bjorn Stevens

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A recent development in numerical simulations of the global atmosphere is the increase in horizontal resolution to grid spacings of a few kilometers. However, the vertical grid spacing of these models has not been reduced at the same rate as the horizontal grid spacing. Here, we assess the effects of much finer vertical grid spacings, in particular the impacts on cloud quantities and the atmospheric energy balance.
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