Ongoing breakthroughs in convective parameterization

C Rio, AD Del Genio, F Hourdin - Current Climate Change Reports, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review While the increase of computer power mobilizes a part of the
atmospheric modeling community toward models with explicit convection or based on …

Deep learning to represent subgrid processes in climate models

S Rasp, MS Pritchard… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
The representation of nonlinear subgrid processes, especially clouds, has been a major
source of uncertainty in climate models for decades. Cloud-resolving models better …

Could machine learning break the convection parameterization deadlock?

P Gentine, M Pritchard, S Rasp… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Representing unresolved moist convection in coarse‐scale climate models remains one of
the main bottlenecks of current climate simulations. Many of the biases present with …

Spatially extended tests of a neural network parametrization trained by coarse‐graining

ND Brenowitz, CS Bretherton - Journal of Advances in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
General circulation models (GCMs) typically have a grid size of 25–200 km.
Parametrizations are used to represent diabatic processes such as radiative transfer and …

Neural network parameterization of subgrid‐scale physics from a realistic geography global storm‐resolving simulation

O Watt‐Meyer, ND Brenowitz, SK Clark… - Journal of Advances …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Parameterization of subgrid‐scale processes is a major source of uncertainty in global
atmospheric model simulations. Global storm‐resolving simulations use a finer grid (less …

Machine‐learned climate model corrections from a global storm‐resolving model: Performance across the annual cycle

A Kwa, SK Clark, B Henn, ND Brenowitz… - Journal of Advances …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
One approach to improving the accuracy of a coarse‐grid global climate model is to add
machine‐learned (ML) state‐dependent corrections to the prognosed model tendencies …

Impacts of model horizontal resolution on mean sea surface temperature biases in the community earth system model

G Xu, P Chang, S Ramachandran… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Impacts of model horizontal resolution on sea surface temperature (SST) biases are studied
using high‐resolution (HR) and low‐resolution (LR) simulations with the Community Earth …

[HTML][HTML] A strong role for the AMOC in partitioning global energy transport and shifting ITCZ position in response to latitudinally discrete solar forcing in CESM1. 2

S Yu, MS Pritchard - Journal of Climate, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
A Strong Role for the AMOC in Partitioning Global Energy Transport and Shifting ITCZ Position
in Response to Latitudinally Discrete Solar Forcing in CESM1.2 in: Journal of Climate Volume …

Combining CloudSat/CALIPSO and MODIS measurements to reconstruct tropical convective cloud structure

K Yang, Z Wang, M Deng, B Dettmann - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Tropical convective clouds are a crucial component of the Earth's weather and climate
system. However, there are still large uncertainties in model simulations of tropical …

Evolution of the double‐ITCZ bias through CESM2 development

MD Woelfle, CS Bretherton, C Hannay… - Journal of Advances in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The structure of the east Pacific Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) as simulated in the
Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2) is greatly improved as compared to its …