Catastrophe-Concept-Based Cumulus Parameterization: Correction of Systematic Errors in the Precipitation Diurnal Cycle over Land in a GCM
Catastrophe-Concept-Based Cumulus Parameterization: Correction of Systematic Errors in the Precipitation Diurnal Cycle over Land in a GCM
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基于突变概念的积云参数化:GCM 中陆地降水日循环系统误差的校正
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2013
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W. Chao
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AbstractThe onset of cumulus convection in a grid column is a catastrophe, also known as a subcritical instability. Accordingly, in designing a cumulus parameterization scheme the onset of cumulus convection requires that a parameter crosses a critical value and the termination of cumulus convection requires that the same or a different parameter crosses a different critical value. Once begun, cumulus convection continues to exist, regardless of whether the onset criterion is still met, until the termination criterion is met. Also, the intensity of cumulus precipitation is related to how far the state is from the termination, not the onset, criterion.The cumulus parameterization schemes currently in use in GCMs, however, treat the onset of cumulus convection as a supercritical instability; namely, convection is turned on when a parameter exceeds a critical value and is turned off when the same parameter falls below the same critical value. Also, the intensity of cumulus precipitation is related to how far...