Mechanisms and model diversity of trade-wind shallow cumulus cloud feedbacks: A review

J Vial, S Bony, B Stevens, R Vogel - Shallow clouds, water vapor …, 2018 - Springer
Shallow cumulus clouds in the trade-wind regions are at the heart of the long standing
uncertainty in climate sensitivity estimates. In current climate models, cloud feedbacks are …

A short review of numerical cloud-resolving models

F Guichard, F Couvreux - Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
A cloud-resolving model (CRM) allows performing numerical simulations of convective
clouds, such as shallow cumulus and stratocumulus, or storms and squall-lines with a …

Controls on precipitation and cloudiness in simulations of trade‐wind cumulus as observed during RICO

MC VanZanten, B Stevens, L Nuijens… - Journal of Advances …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Twelve large‐eddy simulations, with a wide range of microphysical representations, are
compared to each other and to independent measurements. The measurements and the …

Process‐based climate model development harnessing machine learning: I. A calibration tool for parameterization improvement

F Couvreux, F Hourdin, D Williamson… - Journal of Advances …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The development of parameterizations is a major task in the development of weather and
climate models. Model improvement has been slow in the past decades, due to the difficulty …

[HTML][HTML] Marine boundary layer cloud feedbacks in a constant relative humidity atmosphere

M Rieck, L Nuijens, B Stevens - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 2012 - journals.ametsoc.org
The mechanisms that govern the response of shallow cumulus, such as found in the trade
wind regions, to a warming of the atmosphere in which large-scale atmospheric processes …

Large-eddy simulation of organized precipitating trade wind cumulus clouds

A Seifert, T Heus - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2013 - acp.copernicus.org
Trade wind cumulus clouds often organize in along-wind cloud streets and across-wind
mesoscale arcs. We present a benchmark large-eddy simulation which resolves the …

A new look at the daily cycle of trade wind cumuli

J Vial, R Vogel, S Bony, B Stevens… - Journal of advances …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A description of the daily cycle of oceanic shallow cumulus for undisturbed boreal winter
conditions in the North Atlantic trades is presented. Modern investigation tools are used …

A unified model for moist convective boundary layers based on a stochastic eddy-diffusivity/mass-flux parameterization

K Sušelj, J Teixeira, D Chung - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
A single-column model (SCM) is developed for representing moist convective boundary
layers. The key component of the SCM is the parameterization of subgrid-scale vertical …

A new method for large-eddy simulations of clouds with Lagrangian droplets including the effects of turbulent collision

T Riechelmann, Y Noh, S Raasch - New Journal of Physics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, a new Lagrangian cloud model (LCM) is introduced in which the flow field is
simulated by large-eddy simulation, and the droplets are treated as Lagrangian particles …

[HTML][HTML] Large-eddy simulation of stratified turbulence. Part II: Application of the stretched-vortex model to the atmospheric boundary layer

G Matheou, D Chung - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Large-Eddy Simulation of Stratified Turbulence. Part II: Application of the Stretched-Vortex Model
to the Atmospheric Boundary Layer in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Volume 71 Issue 12 …