An overview of cloud–radiation denial experiments for the Energy Exascale Earth System Model version 1

Harrop, Bryce E.; Lu, Jian; Leung, L. Ruby; Lau, William K. M.; Kim, Kyu-Myong; Medeiros, Brian; Soden, Brian J.; Vecchi, Gabriel A.; Zhang, Bosong; Singh, Balwinder

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-3111-2024

Articles | Volume 17, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-3111-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-3111-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 8

Model experiment description paper

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23 Apr 2024

Model experiment description paper |

| 23 Apr 2024

An overview of cloud–radiation denial experiments for the Energy Exascale Earth System Model version 1

Bryce E. Harrop, Jian Lu, L. Ruby Leung, William K. M. Lau, Kyu-Myong Kim, Brian Medeiros, Brian J. Soden, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Bosong Zhang, and Balwinder Singh

Data sets

Model output Bryce E. Harrop https://portal.nersc.gov/archive/home/b/beharrop/www/e3sm_cre_denial_overview_data/Data_Overview_CRE_denial_in_E3SM.tar

CMIP6 ESGF https://aims2.llnl.gov/search/cmip6/

CERES Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) TOA and Surface Monthly means data in netCDF Edition 4.1 NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC https://doi.org/10.5067/TERRA-AQUA/CERES/EBAF_L3B.004.1

Model code and software

E3SM fork Bryce E. Harrop https://github.com/beharrop/E3SM

Figure making script for Overview of cloud-radiation denial in E3SMv1 Bryce Harrop https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8072504

Template scripts for Overview of cloud-radiation denial in E3SMv1 Bryce Harrop https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8125770

Energy Exascale Earth System Model v1.0 E3SM Project https://doi.org/10.11578/E3SM/dc.20180418.36

beharrop/E3SM: CRE experiment v1.0.0 (CREexperimentsv1.0.0) B. Harrop https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10993669

Short summary

Seven new experimental setups designed to interfere with cloud radiative heating have been added to the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM). These experiments include both those that test the mean impact of cloud radiative heating and those examining its covariance with circulations. This paper documents the code changes and steps needed to run these experiments. Results corroborate prior findings for how cloud radiative heating impacts circulations and rainfall patterns.