Articles | Volume 18, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-13-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-13-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Effects of model resolution and parameterizations on the simulations of clouds, precipitation, and their interactions with aerosols
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Zhanqing Li
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Yuwei Zhang
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Hyelim Yoo
Earth Resources Technology, Inc., National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, College Park, MD, USA
Seungbum Kim
Weather Impact Forecasts Team, Korea Meteorological Administration, Seoul, South Korea
Byung-Gon Kim
Department of Atmospheric Environmental Sciences, Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, Gang-Won do, South Korea
Yong-Sang Choi
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
Jungbin Mok
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Junshik Um
Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Kyoung Ock Choi
Cloud Physics Laboratory, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Danhong Dong
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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This paper compares the contribution of resolutions with that of parameterizations to errors in the simulations of clouds, precipitation, and their interactions with aerosol in numerical weather prediction (NWP) models. This comparison shows that resolutions contribute to errors to a much greater degree than microphysics parameterizations. This finding provides a useful guideline for how to develop NWP models and has not been discussed in previous studies.
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