Cloud representation in general‐circulation models over the northern Pacific Ocean: A EUROCS intercomparison study
Cloud representation in general‐circulation models over the northern Pacific Ocean: A EUROCS intercomparison study
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北太平洋大气环流模型中的云表示:EUROCS 比对研究
DOI:
10.1256/qj.03.146
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发表时间:
2004
影响因子:
8.9
通讯作者:
C. Severijns
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作者:
A. P. Siebesma;Christian Jakob;G. Lenderink;R. Neggers;João Paulo Teixeira;E. Meijgaard;Javier Calvo;A. Chlond;H. Grenier;Colin Jones;Martin Köhler;H. Kitagawa;Pascal Marquet;A. Lock;Frank Müller;Dolores Olmeda;C. Severijns
The EUROCS (EUROpean Cloud Systems study) project aims to improve the treatment of cloud systems in regional and global climate and weather prediction models. This paper reports an intercomparison study of cloud representation over the Pacific Ocean for nine climate and weather prediction models. The study consists of an analysis of a June/July/August 1998 period along an idealized trajectory over the Pacific Ocean that encompasses both the ascending and descending branch of the Hadley circulation. The three cloud types that are studied by EUROCS, stratocumulus, shallow cumulus and deep‐convective cloud systems, do all occur in a persistent and geographically separated way, along this trajectory.