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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2024-191
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2024-191
Submitted as: model evaluation paper
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07 Nov 2024
Submitted as: model evaluation paper |  | 07 Nov 2024
Status: a revised version of this preprint was accepted for the journal GMD and is expected to appear here in due course.

UA-ICON with NWP physics package (version: ua-icon-2.1): mean state and variability of the middle atmosphere

Markus Kunze, Christoph Zülicke, Tarique Adnan Siddiqui, Claudia Christine Stephan, Yosuke Yamazaki, Claudia Stolle, Sebastian Borchert, and Hauke Schmidt

Abstract. The Icosahedral Nonhydrostatic (ICON) general circulation model with upper atmosphere extension (UA-ICON) in the configuration with the physics package for numerical weather prediction (NWP) is presented with optimized parameter settings for the non-orographic and orographic gravity wave drag parameterizations (GWD). In this paper, we present UA-ICON(NWP) (version: ua-icon-2.1) in which we implemented optimized parameter settings for the GWD parameterizations to achieve more realistic MLT temperatures and zonal winds. The parameter optimization is based on perpetual January simulations targeting the thermal and dynamic state of the MLT and the Northern Hemisphere stratosphere. The climatology and variability of the Northern Hemisphere stratospheric winter circulation widely improve when applying UA-ICON with the NWP physics package compared to UA-ICON with ECHAM physics. Likewise improves the thermal and dynamic state of the MLT of the re-tuned UA-ICON(NWP) compared with the UA-ICON(NWP) using default settings. For UA-ICON(NWP), a statistical evaluation reveals a slight improvement in the stratosphere/mesosphere coupling compared to UA-ICON(ECHAM). The cold summer mesopause, the warm winter stratopause, and the related wind reversals are reasonably simulated. The GWD parameter optimization further significantly improves the frequency of major sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs). However, the seasonal distribution needs improvement and the relative frequency of split vortex SSWs is underestimated compared to reanalyses, as is the zonal wavenumber 2 preconditioning of SSWs. This indicates that zonal wavenumber 2 forcing in UA-ICON(NWP) is underrepresented. The analysis of migrating diurnal and semidiurnal tides in temperature shows a good agreement of UA-ICON(NWP) with SABER-derived tides and the enhancement of the migrating semidiurnal tide during SSWs is well represented in UA-ICON(NWP).

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We present the Icosahedral Nonhydrostatic (ICON) general circulation model with upper atmosphere...
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