The use of idealised experiments in testing a new convective parametrization: Performance of CoMorph-A
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Lavender, Sally L., Stirling, Alison J., Whitall, Michael, Stratton, Rachel A., Daleu, Chimene L., Plant, Robert S., Lock, Adrian and Gu, Jian-Feng. 2024. "The use of idealised experiments in testing a new convective parametrization: Performance of CoMorph-A." Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 150 (760), pp. 1581-1600. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4660
| Article Title | The use of idealised experiments in testing a new convective parametrization: Performance of CoMorph-A |
|---|---|
| ERA Journal ID | 1987 |
| Article Category | Article |
| Authors | Lavender, Sally L., Stirling, Alison J., Whitall, Michael, Stratton, Rachel A., Daleu, Chimene L., Plant, Robert S., Lock, Adrian and Gu, Jian-Feng |
| Journal Title | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society |
| Journal Citation | 150 (760), pp. 1581-1600 |
| Number of Pages | 20 |
| Year | 2024 |
| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
| Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
| ISSN | 0035-9009 |
| 1477-870X | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4660 |
| Web Address (URL) | https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/qj.4660 |
| Abstract | CoMorph is a new mass-flux convection parametrization under development at the Met Office designed for use within the Unified Model and its successor model, LFRic. Use of a three-dimensional idealised model enables controlled tests of the performance of the scheme across different regimes. This includes the interaction between the physical parametrizations and the resolved dynamics, allowing study of the emergent organisation of convection on the resolved scale. A selection of well-known cases is revisited here, with the purpose of documenting the extent to which CoMorph captures a range of important, but challenging, behaviour such as the diurnal cycle and sensitivity to tropospheric moisture. Simulations using CoMorph-A, a new physics package, that has been demonstrated to perform well at numerical weather prediction (NWP) and climate scales, are compared against the current global atmosphere configuration and high-resolution results. In addition to an entirely new convection scheme, the package of changes includes significant changes to the cloud, microphysics, and boundary-layer parametrizations. Recognising that CoMorph-A is the first version of a scheme that will continue to be substantially developed and to obtain good performance, compromises in tuning have had to be made. These idealised tests therefore show what works well in this configuration, and what areas will require further work. As such, it is quite a demanding testbed and could be viewed as some of the equipment required for a “convective playground”. |
| Keywords | climate models |
| Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
| ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 4101. Climate change impacts and adaptation |
| Byline Affiliations | Centre for Applied Climate Sciences |
| Met Office, United Kingdom | |
| University of Reading, United Kingdom | |
| Nanjing University, China |
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