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Articles | Volume 22, issue 7
Articles | Volume 22, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-4737-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-4737-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 22, issue 7
Research article
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12 Apr 2022
Research article |  | 12 Apr 2022

Assessing the potential for simplification in global climate model cloud microphysics

Ulrike Proske, Sylvaine Ferrachat, David Neubauer, Martin Staab, and Ulrike Lohmann

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Cloud microphysical processes shape cloud properties and are therefore important to represent in climate models. Their parameterization has grown more complex, making the model results more difficult to interpret. Using sensitivity analysis we test how the global aerosol–climate model ECHAM-HAM reacts to changes to these parameterizations. The model is sensitive to the parameterization of ice crystal autoconversion but not to, e.g., self-collection, suggesting that it may be simplified.
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