A unified parameterization of clouds and turbulence using CLUBB and subcolumns in the Community Atmosphere Model

Thayer-Calder, K.; Gettelman, A.; Craig, C.; Goldhaber, S.; Bogenschutz, P. A.; Chen, C.-C.; Morrison, H.; Höft, J.; Raut, E.; Griffin, B. M.; Weber, J. K.; Larson, V. E.; Wyant, M. C.; Wang, M.; Guo, Z.; Ghan, S. J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-3801-2015

Articles | Volume 8, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-3801-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-3801-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 12

Development and technical paper

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01 Dec 2015

Development and technical paper |

| 01 Dec 2015

A unified parameterization of clouds and turbulence using CLUBB and subcolumns in the Community Atmosphere Model

K. Thayer-Calder, A. Gettelman, C. Craig, S. Goldhaber, P. A. Bogenschutz, C.-C. Chen, H. Morrison, J. Höft, E. Raut, B. M. Griffin, J. K. Weber, V. E. Larson, M. C. Wyant, M. Wang, Z. Guo, and S. J. Ghan

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SC C1530: 'Few General Comments', Jun-Ichi Yano, 28 Jul 2015
- AC C2361: 'Response to 'Few General Comments', Jun-Ichi Yano, 28 Jul 2015', Katherine Thayer-Calder, 02 Oct 2015
RC C2037: 'Referee comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Sep 2015
- AC C2365: 'Response to 'Referee comment', Anonymous Referee #1', Katherine Thayer-Calder, 02 Oct 2015
RC C2086: 'Review of gmd-2015-105', Anonymous Referee #2, 17 Sep 2015
- AC C2369: 'Response to 'Review of gmd-2015-105', Anonymous Referee #2', Katherine Thayer-Calder, 02 Oct 2015

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Katherine Thayer-Calder on behalf of the Authors (04 Oct 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (08 Oct 2015) by Paul Ullrich

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (06 Nov 2015)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (06 Nov 2015) by Paul Ullrich

AR by Katherine Thayer-Calder on behalf of the Authors (07 Nov 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (09 Nov 2015) by Paul Ullrich

AR by Katherine Thayer-Calder on behalf of the Authors (10 Nov 2015) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

This study evaluates a unified cloud parameterization and a Monte Carlo microphysics interface that is implemented in CAM v5.3. We show mean climate and tropical variability results from global simulations. The model has a degradation in precipitation skill but improvements in shortwave cloud forcing, liquid water path, long-wave cloud forcing, precipitable water, and tropical wave simulation. We also show estimation of computational expense and sensitivity to number of subcolumns.