| Theme: | Knowledge Transfer to NWP and Climate Centers [Project ID: KT04] |
| PI: | William Collins |
| CO-PI(s): | Wayne Schubert |
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| Goals: Projects under this KT Theme support the broader KT Goals of enabling
improved climate models and improved weather forecasts |
| Objectives: Supports KT Objectives 1 and 2. 1., To provide to climate modeling
centers improved tools for the simulation of global cloudiness, as well as
innovative tools for the analysis of such simulations. 2., To provide improved
cloud parameterizations to numerical weather prediction centers. |
| Summary: AMIP style simulations using an MMF enabled CAM (SP-CAM) were subject to
diagnostics developed by the CCSM AMWG. These community tools are typically used
for evaluation and intercomparaison of the standard CAM. Mark Branson ran both
the standard and variability diagnostics packages using monthly and daily
integrations, respectively, from the SP-CAM. A side note on the variability
diagnostics is that the diagnostic package calls for 6-hour integrations,
however only daily integrations were available. M. Branson was able to 'trick'
the variability diagnostic package into using daily output. This difference in
input should be noted when comparing the SP-CAM variability diagnostic results
to observations and diagnostic results from the standard CAM. Also of note is
the MMF enabled SP-CAM is uses the CAM with a Lagrangian dynamical core, while
CAM diagnostics on the CCSM website reference CAM simulations run with an
Eulerian dynamical core. |
| Activities and outcomes during past year: The output from the diagnostic packages have been posted to the
CMMAP website (http://cmmap.colostate.edu/cmmap/research/themes/ktcenters.html).
William Collins summarizes these results in a presentation given at the Jan
15-17 CMMAP Team Meeting at UCLA. |
| Plans for the upcoming year: The KT Committee members involved with this project discussed potential
activities for the coming year. These include: possible coordination with other
research themes within CMMAP; possible coordination with CFMIP; generating a
report in publishable form; organizing an effort to develop a tuned version of
the SP-CAM. Other future activities will be determined |
