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Investigation of ice cloud modeling capabilities for the irregularly shaped Voronoi ice scattering models in climate simulations
Ming Li
State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Yiran Peng
Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science,
Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Hiroshi Ishimoto
Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA),
Nagamine 1-1, Tsukuba 305-0052, Japan
Yanluan Lin
Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science,
Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Takashi Y. Nakajima
Research and Information Center (TRIC), Tokai University, 4-1-1
Kitakaname Hiratsuka, Kanagawa 259-1292, Japan
Anthony J. Baran
Met Office, Fitzroy Road, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
School of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics, University of
Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, UK
Zengyuan Guo
Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science,
Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Laboratory for Climate Studies, National Climate Center, China
Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China
Yonghui Lei
State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Jiancheng Shi
National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
100190, China
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To build on the previous investigations of the Voronoi model in the remote sensing retrievals of ice cloud products, this paper developed an ice cloud parameterization scheme based on the single-scattering properties of the Voronoi model and evaluate it through simulations with the Community Integrated Earth System Model (CIESM). Compared with four representative ice cloud schemes, results show that the Voronoi model has good capabilities of ice cloud modeling in the climate model.
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