Articles | Volume 9, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-2533-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-2533-2016
Development and technical paper
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27 Jul 2016
Development and technical paper |  | 27 Jul 2016

Numerical framework and performance of the new multiple-phase cloud microphysics scheme in RegCM4.5: precipitation, cloud microphysics, and cloud radiative effects

Rita Nogherotto, Adrian Mark Tompkins, Graziano Giuliani, Erika Coppola, and Filippo Giorgi

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The paper presents a new cloud scheme for regional climate model RegCM4.5. The new scheme treats microphysical processes occurring within stratiform clouds and with respect to the pre-existing scheme is able to allow a more physically realistic representation of cloud microphysics and distribution, improving the representation of the longwave and shortwave components of the cloud radiative forcing.