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- Title
Inclusion of the radiative effect of deep convective clouds in the Eta model simulations.
- Authors
Campos, Diêgo de Andrade; Chou, Sin Chan; Bottino, Marcus Jorge; Gomes, Jorge Luís; Lyra, André
- Abstract
Convective clouds play an important role in the local energy budget by directly interacting with solar and terrestrial radiation. However, radiation parameterization schemes of atmospheric models generally consider clouds produced from microphysics schemes or some other grid saturation criteria. Deep convective parameterization schemes tend to rain out the convective cloud before the radiation scheme perceives its water load. This may be a source of the positive bias of the incoming solar radiation at the surface. The objective of this work is to include the effects of deep convective clouds in the radiation scheme of the regional Eta model and to evaluate the impacts on the net radiative energy and other meteorological variables. The radiation scheme is the Rapid Radiative Transfer Model. The work is developed in four stages. The positive bias in the incoming solar radiation was diagnosed in the first stage. In the second stage, the parameters of the convective parameterization scheme were modified to increase convective precipitation. In the third stage, the parameters of the microphysics scheme were modified to increase explicit clouds. In the fourth and last stage, in addition to the previous modifications, the condensates from the convective parameterization were input into the radiation scheme. The runs were performed for a period of one summer rainy month with intense convective activity over South America. Including deep convective cloud condensates into the radiation scheme improved the cloud cover, the diurnal cycle of the surface net radiation, and the 2‐m temperature. However, the reduction of the net radiation at the surface caused the reduction of the available energy for convective instability and, consequently, the precipitation reduction. The results show the importance of including cumulus cloud water load in the radiative scheme for bias reduction in the radiative energy components.
- Subjects
ETA (Organization); CONVECTIVE clouds; TERRESTRIAL radiation; RADIATION; RADIATIVE transfer; THERMAL instability; MICROPHYSICS; ENERGY budget (Geophysics); CUMULUS clouds
- Publication
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2024, Vol 150, Issue 761, p1809
- ISSN
0035-9009
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/qj.4673