Articles | Volume 17, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-6319-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-6319-2024
Development and technical paper
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27 Aug 2024
Development and technical paper |  | 27 Aug 2024

Deep-learning-driven simulations of boundary layer clouds over the Southern Great Plains

Tianning Su and Yunyan Zhang

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Using 2 decades of field observations over the Southern Great Plains, this study developed a deep-learning model to simulate the complex dynamics of boundary layer clouds. The deep-learning model can serve as the cloud parameterization within reanalysis frameworks, offering insights into improving the simulation of low clouds. By quantifying biases due to various meteorological factors and parameterizations, this deep-learning-driven approach helps bridge the observation–modeling divide.
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